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The end is nigh

Its almost switch on time for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Its still being cooled down but will soon make its first attempt at finding the 'god particle'.

Question is, will it discover the Higgs Boson or will it kill us all ? From a purely scientific perspective, either outcome will teach us something new about particle physics. If we are dead, we won't get to build on those results, but hell, at least we'll know.

Well over the last 2 weeks ive had 3 dreams that ive been fried by nuclear missles...

So im taking this as a sign of a coming catastrophe and saying we're going to be Killed.

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It will not provide any major worthwhile scientific discoveries.

It will not kill anyone.

Nothing to see here.

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Originally posted by punzada

Nothing to see here.

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Of course it's fucking safe... Every time a new particle accelerator goes online some cockhead thinks it will destroy the universe, IT WONT. There's more chance of my gas causing the end of the world.

What it will do of course is turn physics into an episode of Lost - by producing far more questions that it answers

thats the only probelm with science, for every question we answer....50 more questions pop up in its place!

im looking forward to seeing the results of this particle accelerator. can we create something out of nothing like religion would have us believe? i would like to find out!

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The result may be more questions than answers. Hopefully it will be 5 more questions, a confirmation of Super Symmetry and almost a validation of string theory.

If this doesn't happen, its still a huge result because it'll stop string theorists wasting their talents on a dead end.

i have actually done contract work at fermilab,another particle accelerator ,quite interesting.

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Originally posted by cupidstunt
Not like SpeedRacer which Rocked eh Punzada.

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One day some whizzkid chemistry student will produce a cold fusion reactor in his back bedroom. His girlfriend dumps him so he gets depressed and decides to blow the whole planet up. The Earth becomes a dust cloud orbiting the Sun and the Moon flies-off to the outer reaches of the Solar System. No one will even know the human race ever existed.

'Click'





























Theres a white flash, Then everything goes black.






























'Silence'

























The end of existence ?




















Then in the sky..... what's that say?




















































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that actually made me lol Arthur, good job.

And in an effort to totally derail the thread (but a sign that the end may actually be near):

http://www.daviddino.com/sonicsword.jpg

sonic, on the cover of nintendo power, holding a sword. The end *is* nigh.

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Originally posted by Arthur Daily
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Does anyone know when this will be switched on ?

Also...

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Originally posted by Arthur Daily

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Originally posted by Gimp Mask
Thought you weren't ever coming back OurFur.

NOTE TO OTHER ATTENTION SEEKERS THAT WANT TO CRY AND SAY THEY ARE FINISHED HERE...DON'T COME BACK!

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yeah you proved me wrong....


....i gave you a week before you turned up again....i guess i was off by a few months....

welcome back arfur....now im not the poster with the worst grammer anymore

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Originally posted by bartleby
Does anyone know when this will be switched on ?

Also...



LOL

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without trying to sound too deep, and hippy like.

there's some natural occurring forces in this universe on the scale of supernovas and alike
I doubt VERY much that us flea like beings can muster anything of any significance.



Sill, Saying that, i believe its only a matter of time before we start fucking about with the very nuts n bolts of it all.

ponder that scary thourt.






Thanks cupid, its good to be back.

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http://www.fermilabtoday.com/pub/ab...is/history.html nice to see you arthur!

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Originally posted by Arthur Daily
without trying to sound too deep, and hippy like.

there's some natural occurring forces in this universe on the scale of supernovas and alike
I doubt VERY much that us flea like beings can muster anything of any significance.



Sill, Saying that, i believe its only a matter of time before we start fucking about with the very nuts n bolts of it all.

ponder that scary thourt.






Thanks cupid, its good to be back.

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Theres not much chance of humans ending the universe but I don't think its beyond the realms of science fiction that man could destroy Earth, maybe even the Solar System.

They say this particle accelerator will accelerate the particles to so close to the speed of light that they would very likely produce mini black holes, these mini black holes will decay and disappear in an instant though, so no danger. There is no reason whatsoever for them to even attempt to create one that could sustain itself, but if they could, that would end the earth and anything in its vicinity pretty quickly, wouldn't affect the wider universe though.

Nice to see you back Arthur...

You should have brought back Para.

I missed being disgusted every time I ate while reading the forums..

The end is extremely fucking nigh !

According to virginmedia the large hadron collider will be switched on this saturday.
I bet i win the fucking lottery and the world ends.


Also heres what Nostradamus has to say about it...

Leave, leave Geneva every last one of you,
Saturn will be converted from gold to iron,
"Raypoz" will exterminate all who oppose him,
Before the coming the sky will show signs.

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the Higgs boson


fuck that, im off



what time UK time will we die ?

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Nothing bad is going to happen. In reality, if it doesn't produce a Higgs boson, nothing is going to happen and it's back to the drawing board. Either way I'm pretty sure we're gonna see the standard model be superseded by something else fairly soon.

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I just found this in a local news thread and thought I'd crosspost it here:

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I'm more concerned with the impact a mite, insecticides and GM crops are having on honey bees. once they're dead, the human race has four years left.

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Do honey bees help pollinate trees? or grass?
I think wind and animal shit takes care of that part.

Flowers on the other had may get a tough time,
but your right, im sure theres a balance to it all
why cant wasps fuck off, i like bees

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Originally posted by Arthur Daily

but your right, im sure theres a balance to it all

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Just been to the bookies and bet him £1000 that the world would end today...

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Originally posted by bartleby
Just been to the bookies and bet him £1000 that the world would end today...

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Originally posted by ntscuser
What odds did he give you? How could he pay up if you did win?

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Originally posted by bartleby
He gave me fucking brilliant odds 1000-1

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CERN announces start-up date for LHC

Geneva, 7 August 2008. CERN has today announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September.

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How do we know this isn't just some gigantic con-trick to wangle billions of €uros of taxpayers money into a giant job creation scheme? I bet none of the people working on this project is exactly 'poor' and even if nothing works none of us here could ever prove it.

Hang on I thought this thing was supposed to be turned on today?

You're posting from hellllllllllllllll

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Originally posted by Dutch
Hang on I thought this thing was supposed to be turned on today?

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Apparently its been cooling down for a month, to absolute zero ( -200 n something)
its ready now, and they are spinning it up on low power test runs.

but on the 10th, ohhhh mumma
that's when they go 'CLICK'

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Here's everything you want to know about the LHC
in a video put together by the Twats who are working on it :S

watch THIS and be proper worried.

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Originally posted by Arthur Daily
Here's everything you want to know about the LHC
in a video put together by the Twats who are working on it :S

watch THIS and be proper worried.

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Originally posted by Arthur Daily
watch THIS and be proper worried.

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LMFAO Now that has cracked me up ! ill be laughing for the next year.

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Originally posted by MrBrains
laughing for the next year.

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Originally posted by Dutch
quantum singularity ... sucked in.

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what the fuck was that video....me and the girl were actually interseted in checking out the experement....and they had to go and be gay about it.....

douchebags....so much for ejucation









.....yeah i meant to do that swifty

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First particles are due to be fired round this thing in a couple of days but theres still another month to wait for the first collision data.

You wouldn't know this if you read about it in The Sun or any other tabloid though. Oh no, this is The Sun's recent offering(Click picture for full story.)




I've had to spend the weekend trying to explain to my less academic friends that the world is not about to end and that this experiment has been known about for about a decade, that the first collisions won't be made for another month and that their is little to no chance of the world ending.

"Have you heard about this machine thats going to end the world, I read about it in the The Sun?
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"Oh yeah, the Large Hadron collider, its been on for about a couple of months now but it won't be making any collisions until October".

"No No , this is a different story, its just been in The Sun, it says it could end the world when its switched on in 9 days".

"Yeah, its the same story, they're just slow reporting it".

"No no, it can't be the same one, it was only in the paper a couple of days ago".

"ITS THE SAME FUCKING STORY YOU SPASTIC""

"Whats a Hadron?"

"Stop talking to me"

i feel your pain

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Baah science, What has science ever done for us
Well in preparation for the end of the world, I've grown my hair long not washed for weeks and drawn up an Repent now end of the world sign. So I'm all ready to rock and roll.

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Originally posted by cupidstunt
I've had to spend the weekend trying to explain to my less academic friends that the world is not about to end and that this experiment has been known about for about a decade, that the first collisions won't be made for another month and that their is little to no chance of the world ending.

"Have you heard about this machine thats going to end the world, I read about it in the The Sun?
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"Oh yeah, the Large Hadron collider, its been on for about a couple of months now but it won't be making any collisions until October".

"No No , this is a different story, its just been in The Sun, it says it could end the world when its switched on in 9 days".

"Yeah, its the same story, they're just slow reporting it".

"No no, it can't be the same one, it was only in the paper a couple of days ago".

"ITS THE SAME FUCKING STORY YOU SPASTIC""

"Whats a Hadron?"

"Stop talking to me"

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Well it looks like you should be able to see them run for there lives
as they realize they've made a mistake at the last minuet on there LIVE web cast.

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I see no one has mentioned that one of the leading physicists working on it, Brian Cox, was also in the band D:Ream with the classic "Things can only get better" lol, let's just hope this won't be ironic


Brian Cox - Physicist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl-ai9HuR60

Some comments on the BBC Blog regarding todays 'switch on'.

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I am no scientist and i have no knowledge of anything to do with physics, but in my opinion i would like to say i do think this is wrong,

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how much energy does it use and who foots the electricity bill?

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why is it necessary to know what happened at the 'theoretical' big bang?

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I feel somewhat uneasy, abit like when we invaded Iraq.

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If you want to know what may happen, if the scientists of CERN are wrong in their assumptions about Black Holes, please ask for my thriller Atlas ohne Schweiz ( 'Globe without Switzerland', available only in German).

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LHC First Beam - 10th September 2008 - 9am CEST (GMT+2)

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wtf

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Here's some excellent webcams for the LHC: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Lol. That's pretty cool.

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Ha. Must admit, I didn't click on the link before because I thought it would just be a Stream from a security cam outside CERN or something equally dull.

Didn't realise Neversoft made a funny.... it's been so long.

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Originally posted by cupidstunt
Ha. Must admit, I didn't click on the link before because I thought it would just be a Stream from a security cam outside CERN or something equally dull.

Didn't realise Neversoft made a funny.... it's been so long.

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