The Big Bang recreated.

[ss]

Starts tomorrow in Switzerland....

Some critics (scientists) say it will destroy the world.

www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080823/atom_smasher_080823/20080823

[Elliot Kane]

Well, on the bright side, if it does we won't know about it coz it'll be over real fast! ;D

One of those 'Never worry about stuff you can do nothing about' moments.

I won't even be thinking about it, tomorrow.

[Hand-E-Food]

If the news I read is correct, it is now roughly T-minus-zero seconds until armageddon...

[cleglaw]

bang

[The Sonar Chicken]

Right... so the world is supposed to "tremble and shake"?

Well, I'm still here and Europe is still standing. ;D So is Asia.

[met]

guess I'd better pay that outstanding bill after all!

[Elliot Kane]

They switched it on and we didn't all die! Talk about anti-climax! ;D

[cleglaw]

[The Sonar Chicken]

Nooo... keep the bombs away from the Particle machine. You do realise that you might open a black hole, which would summon alien minions from another world to invade Planet Earth?

[rhiian]

lol we lived

but they aint done yet
apperently today of stage 1 of many
so we might still die

[Elliot Kane]

Yeah, the main collision is about three weeks off. At which time they'll probably discover they just built the world's most expensive hair dryer or something ;D

[cleglaw]

The lady in your signature will need an expensive hair dryer.

[Elliot Kane]

That's true! maybe they've been building it for her all this time? How sweet! ;D

[ss]

Sept 10, 2008 19:36:01 GMT Elliot Kane said:

Yeah, the main collision is about three weeks off. At which time they'll probably discover they just built the world's most expensive hair dryer or something ;D

Your probably right. They say it will take some time to reach the speed of whatever it is they want.

I thought it was interesting, but as you know, I don't believe in the original "Big Bang" so i definitely am not worring about this one....

although.......they may really screw up something bad....If I had money in the Geneva banks, I think I would transfer it for the time being.... ;D

Remember Chernobyl....

[Elliot Kane]

I'm not sure anyone really knows what this thing will do. It's all theory at this point. They 'hope' or 'think' or 'have calculated that' (Whic is science-speak for 'hope' ) - but until the whole thing is over, they do ot KNOW.

[cleglaw]

[Lews]

someone mailed them the strategy guide to half life and a crowbar, rofl.

[cleglaw]

A group of Greek hackers broke into the particle accelerator's systems just as scientists were turning it on in front of the world's media
Monday, 15th September 2008

Even as the scientists at CERN, the centre for nuclear research, were switching on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator under Geneva last week, a group of Greek hackers were one step away from controlling a 12,500-ton electromagnet that serves as one of the machine’s four detectors.

The intruders posted a lengthy note in Greek on the machine’s network introducing themselves as ‘the Greek Security Team’, mocking the system’s poor security and calling the IT staff responsible for it “a bunch of schoolkids.”

The hackers said they had no intention of interfering with the operation of the LHC, but added, “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.”

Scientists fighting off the attack on the ‘Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment’, which is competing with the Atlas detector to find evidence of the Higgs boson particle, reportedly described the intrusion as “a scary experience”.

"It is hard enough to make these things work if no one is messing with it,” an insider told The Daily Telegraph.

While only one existing file was damaged, half a dozen were reportedly uploaded and had to be carefully studied before deletion in order to avoid potential back-door threats.

"It was quickly detected and there seems to be no harm done,” said CERN spokesperson James Gillies. “From what we can tell, it was someone making the point that CMS was hackable."

link

[Ubereil]

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

Übereil

[Hildor]