Heads up, science fiends and night owls: The greatest science experiment ever built is set to switch on at around 3:30 A.M. Eastern Time tomorrow.

After 14 years and $8 billion, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) plans to inject the first beam of protons fully around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the circular particle accelerator 17 miles (27 kilometers) long straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.

It will most assuredly not destroy the world.

What it will do is help researchers answer some big questions about the universe—why particles have mass; what dark matter may be made of, and why matter survived its brush with antimatter when the universe was young.

The LHC will accomplish all that by producing high-energy particle collisions—600 million per second—for detectors to scan for rare but telling debris. (See our special report, The Large Hadron Collider: Countdown.)

CERN estimates that in six to eight weeks it will steer the first proton beam into a head-on crash with a second beam circulating the other direction, for a combined energy of 10 trillion electron volts (TeV) per collision. The lab plans to shut down the accelerator for the winter in mid-November and prepare it to restart next year at its full energy of 14 TeV.

Scientists by now are sick of reiterating that they would not have built such a machine if they had the slightest fear that it would produce microscopic black holes capable of destroying the world. Nor do they appreciate the death threats.

http://www.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam

personally hope it all goes well not just for the sake of the planet but so much will be become answered with this experiment.. Questions like why is 50% + of the Universe just missing
Im excited...

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"Destiny finds those who listen, fate finds the rest"

I just read about the same thing the other day.
Exciting

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02:47 <@NabNab> saifon: you so sexy
02:47 <+saifon> D:

Nerdy; but I'm so into it right now

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http://about.me/tomekrutkowski

Been talking about it in school all day. Have wondered why there were no post here

Anyway tbh i'm going to have troubles sleeping tonight.. I know it's gonna turn out well, because.. well, they must know what they're doing with their 8 billion dollars. Just something else than buying fancy sandwiches i hope.

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motherfuckin rabbits ejaculating sunshine

they know what they are doing that is for sure

But they dont know what the outcome will be thats the only worrying part ive been following the LHC for many years America already has one and its been fine.. but this is by far the biggest and will produce results than any other before....

and its going to write a whole new book in partical physics

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"Destiny finds those who listen, fate finds the rest"

Worst possible scenario

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"I have come to shut this thread down. If I see anybody posting in here from now on, I will kill them.
In cold blood.
Thank you for your co-operation."
[SpA]DrMcMoist

Wasn't it starting at 9.30 ?

http://webcast.cern.ch/index.html live stream

In fact the reason why I spent my childhood in Germany is because my father worked at DESY - Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron - another, smaller, circular accelerator. I'm a sucker for such things ever since then. ^^
However, linear accelerators are superior to circular ones anyway since there's no loss of energy resulting from bending the particles' path...

An upcoming experiment I'm far more excited about is ITER:

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

Also, I'm annoyed by some clueless politicians and eco-activists who oppose the project while being completely delusional both about the technology itself and about renewable energy sources (fusion reactors would not be renewable but would offer close to a limitless supply of power by today's standards =) and unfamiliar with the concept of diminishing returns they are usually connected to...

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell

Anyone else who can't connect to the live stream?

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motherfuckin rabbits ejaculating sunshine

I can connect to it

Yeah, the dark-matter experiment. CERN have this huge x-billion pound reactor and aren't they also trying to produce it (dark matter) nearly a mile down in abandoned Welsh mine in a cavern that they have sterilised with minimum equipment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/2981103.stm

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You'll Feel A Little Prick

dark matter, antimatter, all very interesting stuff
when will we succeed in nothing else then destroying ourselves?

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M.A.S.K. , is the mighty power that can save the day

Went on my university website this morning and they even have it as the front page news:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/

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You'll Feel A Little Prick

WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


oh wait, the test is already done i think

<3

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Sebas the avenging zebra's sidekick! <3

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"I have come to shut this thread down. If I see anybody posting in here from now on, I will kill them.
In cold blood.
Thank you for your co-operation."
[SpA]DrMcMoist

There was a black hole under my desk at work.

I stuck my willy in it, and it was nice

My webserver crashed and I blame Lim-D... eh... CERN for that!

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SaintK: I'm completely lost

I was at school 1 hour ago looks like we will live for another day

First signs something could go wrong with the LHC:

Guys, armageddon is not for another month.

Today they launched protons in one direction. In four months, they will launch protons in the other direction, and not until then will they collide (obviously )

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<@Howard_s> usa just has a made up economy - they can't really go broke

JuncoPartner: I could barely hold it up for long.

I think you meant worm hole, not black hole!

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The stats below lie. I'm actually much much worse.

LOL (but i think this is photoshoped)

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"I have come to shut this thread down. If I see anybody posting in here from now on, I will kill them.
In cold blood.
Thank you for your co-operation."
[SpA]DrMcMoist

I think if things go wrong, this might be in order -

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HAHAHA1!!..

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[SpA]Revenge "Wheres the element of surpise :/"

[SpA]Mint "IN.... MY....PANTS"

[SpA]Minimoose "Revenge is going to jump out of your pants?"

If you have not done it already, you should also check the source code of the page

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Dear God(if you even exist), I am willing to trade Justin Bieber, all 3 Jonases and Miley Cyrus to get Paul Gray, Ronnie James Dio, Pete Steele, Dimebag Darrell and Chuck Schuldiner back.

lol, i knew there was something hidden on that page! Just didn't bother to search for it

if (!(typeof worldHasEnded == "undefined")) {
document.write("YUP.");
} else {
document.write("NOPE.");
}

LOL! ^^

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell