A Historic day, whether you know it or not.

[Accord R33]

Well, i'm a pretty big science and technology nerd, so today is pretty exciting for me, and will go down in history, whether you realize it not.

Today The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) successfully sent its first photon beams around the 17 mile particle accelerator at CERN, in what could end up being the biggest and most important science experiment ever done by mankind.



The main goal of the LHC is to provide insight into particle physics, such as finding the elusive "Higg's Boson", and create mini "big bangs" to help study what conditions might have been like at the bang, and very shortly after it.

Some people were led to believe that CERN could destroy the world by creating a "black hole". This started as a joke by physicists, and when the media caught wind of it, it was blown way out of proportion. the LHC CANNOT create enough energy to create anything more than a nanoscopic black hole, that would last for only a billionth of a second, posing ZERO danger to the earth.

[Gemini]

I still dont trust it.......I might be misinformed but I'm very sceptic about this alot. I havent read one report that provided a position that can come out of all this. It seems like just curious overly cocky scientist trying to play with their big new shiney toy.

[Father Time]

So they did fire it off, I read about it on line about how th emedia thought it would make "little black holes" they might sink down to the center of the earth and gain power from the earth's core and eventually swallow the earth and end us.

Pretty neat that they actually did it and weren't stopped by all the threats of lawsuits.

[JoshM]

[JoshM]

In laymon's terms.... what exactly does this do?
What does it promise for the future?

[Accord R33]

I havent read one report that provided a position that can come out of all this.

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html

[AG17CB7]

They dropped all the lawsuits and gave them the go ahead to do it. I read somewhere about the black holes swallowing the earth in a 4 year span. 4 year from now is 2012. I thought that was cool.

[blizzard335]

that google banner is awesome

[Father Time]

They dropped all the lawsuits and gave them the go ahead to do it. I read somewhere about the black holes swallowing the earth in a 4 year span. 4 year from now is 2012. I thought that was cool.

So I guess another conspiracy theory will arise from this then.

[JoshM]

So I guess another conspiracy theory will arise from this then.

http://www.december212012.com/

[Gemini]

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html

Meh....thats base on their perception and theirs only but whatever...scientist always do whatever they want , I just hope that they are correct on their calculations and asuupmtions.

[Law Grandeur]

they Dropped All The Lawsuits And Gave Them The Go Ahead To Do It. I Read Somewhere About The Black Holes Swallowing The Earth In A 4 Year Span. 4 Year From Now Is 2012. I Thought That Was Cool.

Rofl

[bobbycos]

so ... did it work?

[Pandemic]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

Pretty interesting read. I'll admit, I didn't understand a good part of what the theories were.

[GenDBlade]

so ... did it work?

thats what i want to know. if they did fire it off today then we can assume that nothing bad happened.