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Thursday November 12, 2009
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It's all-systems-go for the Large Hadron Collider, just a week after a bird threatened to gum up the proceedings with a piece of bread.
The world's largest particle accelerator has been under repair for over a year due to an electrical failure back in September 2008, but it's now gearing up to resume operations, according to CNN.
The 17-mile collider will circulate high-energy proton beams beginning later this month, according to Steve Myers, CERN's Director for Accelerators and Technology. The goal: to explore questions about the origins of the universe.
Myers said in the report that the full scientific program for the LHC will probably last over 20 years, though scientists hope to discover new properties of nature in short order--possibly as early as 2010. (Image credit: CERN)
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November 12, 2009 7:20 AM
You should really stop to call it the "god particle".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs
Higgs is reported to be displeased that the particle is nicknamed the "God particle"--although Higgs is an atheist, he is afraid the term "might offend people who are religious".[1][14] This nickname for the Higgs boson is usually attributed to Leon Lederman, but it is actually the result of Lederman's publisher's censoring. Originally Lederman intended to call it "the goddamn particle", because of its elusiveness.
November 13, 2009 4:05 AM
God's particle if any will be the blck hole, which balances the Universe converting electroweak energy (ours) into mass, according to Einstein's first equation: M=e/c2. Since in the fractal paradigm (5th age of science) we model black holes as top quark stars and top quarks as per nambu, last year nobel prize, are Higgs particle (same mass, self similar equations) what lhc WILL DO is a massive number of top quarks, which will deconfine, form an Einstein-Bose condensate and create a top quark black hole, which will absorbb the mass of this planet and clean up the human species, whose arrogance and ingorance of the true laws of this Universe is apalling. This sad end to mankind however is avoidable, and in infinite other planets where the game of history is played, the LHC will never be comissioned because humans will advance their minds farther than their machines of self-destruction
November 13, 2009 12:39 PM
@ luis sancho
WOW, are you really that dumb?
November 13, 2009 1:03 PM
@ Luis Sancho
I have never heard a more made of scientific hypothesis in my life. Sounds like a freshman in college trying to explain the universe by using words unnecessarily big to make them sound smarter, but then finish it off with an extra helping of FAILcake at the end where they run off into a tangent about how retarded they themselves truly are.
November 13, 2009 1:30 PM
@ Luis Sancho
And now that you've posted your thoughts/rant here, we are safe.
No offense, but you make it sound like a project of this magnitude was designed by ants.
do you really believe that you possess the right answer? then wtf are you doing here with it?
November 13, 2009 3:59 PM
Why don't we just call it the "Higgs particle"? That way, religious zealots may be less inclined to smear humankind's greatest scientific experiment with their ignorant diatribe.
November 16, 2009 12:29 AM
yes and when the black hole sucks up all of our whiskey then i bet luis will feel pretty dumb because every one knows the pancakes arent made from monkey snails. its buff :)