Topic: Large Hadron Collider nearly ready

[GillE]

At least things got better for him.

[mistybear]

Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed The World Yet?

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

[TR]

Been nice knowing some of you ..bye for now 

[sam]

its just the power up today... they wont be doing the "big bang"esq stuff for a few months yet...

[Clive]

That took place half an hour ago and we are still h...

[sam]

That took place half an hour ago and we are still h...

 

[Simon]

Goodbye cruel world...

[GillE]

I'm not staying online very long.  With the LHC fired up, there's every chance we'll have a power cut.  Come to that, it's a risk every time the traffic lights in the town centre change colour.

[GillE]

Croatia 1 England 4

So it did generate a black hole which we slipped through into a parallel universe.

[Simon]

In that case, can we leave football there and fill in the hole? 

[mistybear]

Big Bang experiment makes girl suicide

September 10, 2008, 10:53 am


    * Doomsday fears come with territory, scientists sayDoomsday predictions surrounding the start-up of Europe's Large Hadron Collider come as little surprise to physicists.

A teenage girl in India has killed herself after fearing the Big Bang experiment in Switzerland may cause the world to end.

Local Indian authorities said the 16-year-old girl from Madhya Pradesh drank pesticide and was rushed to the hospital but died later.

Physicists around the world celebrated the first tests on Wednesday of a huge particle-smashing machine they hope will simulate the creation of the universe.

Experiments using the underground Large Hadron Collider, the biggest and most complex machine ever made, could revamp modern physics and unlock secrets about the universe and its origins.

The girl, named Chayya, killed herself after watching doomsday predictions made on Indian news programmes, her father said.

"In the past two days, Chayya had asked me and other relatives about the world coming to an end on September 10," he told local television in India.

"We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things, but to no avail."

Physicists brushed off suggestions that the experiment could create tiny black holes that could cause problems with the planet.

"The worries that scientists had were nothing to do with being swallowed up by black holes and everything to do with technical hitches or electronic failure," Jim al-Khalili, a physicist at Britain's University of Surrey, said.

"Now, after a collective sigh of relief, the real fun starts," al-Khalili said.

"No matter what we find, we will be unlocking the secrets of the universe."

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/5007823

[Clive]

What a waste of a life.   

[sam]

especially since it hasn't even done the stuff that these doomsday people suggest could end the world... wait till they start firing the beams against each other - that's when the fun stars!

[mistybear]

Hackers fool Hadron Collider computers
September 13, 2008, 9:52 pm

Hackers claim they have broken into the computer system of the Large Hadron Collider, the mega-machine designed to expose secrets of the cosmos, British newspapers reported.

A group calling itself the Greek Security Team left a rogue webpage mocking the technicians responsible for computer security at the giant atom smasher as "schoolkids", the Times and Daily Telegraph reported.

The hackers vowed they had no intention of disrupting the experiment at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) on the Swiss-French border, they just wanted to highlight the flaws in the computer system's security.

"We're pulling your pants down because we don't want to see you running around naked looking to hide yourselves when the panic comes," they wrote, according to the Daily Telegraph.

The hackers claimed to have gained access to a website open to other scientists on Wednesday as the LHC passed its first test with flying colours, the reports said.

They appear to have tried to gain access to the computer system of the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment, one of the four detectors that will be analysing the progress of the experiment.

James Gillies, a spokesman for CERN, told the Times: "We don't know who they were but there seems to be no harm done. It appears to be people who want to make a point that CERN was hackable."

Scientists hailed the success of the start of the experiment on Wednesday in the Large Hadron Collider, the 27-kilometre circular tunnel in which parallel beams of protons will be accelerated to nearly the speed of light.

Superconducting magnets will then steer the counter-rotating beams so that strings of protons smash together in four huge laboratories, fleetingly replicating the conditions that prevailed at the "Big Bang" that created the universe 13.7 billion years ago

[Simon]