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Awesome Pics of CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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CmdrTaco
on Sat Aug 02, 2008 08:45 AM
from the because-we-can dept.
from the because-we-can dept.
mactard submitted a collection of insanely beautiful pictures of the Large Hadron Collider. I've always had a warm place for amazing photgraphs, and these really don't disappoint. Science really is beautiful sometimes.
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3rd photo (Score:5, Funny)
That 3rd photo looks an awful lot like a stargate.
I'm assuming its a shot facing downwards, thus the pool of water or whatever that is, but it just looks cool.
Re:3rd photo (Score:5, Interesting)
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Truth is stranger than fiction...
Turns out, the government really did have a Stargate Project [wikipedia.org] -- it was just about psychics, not aliens. And they didn't find any. Of either.
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"Turns out, the government really did have a Stargate Project [wikipedia.org] -- it was just about psychics, not aliens. And they didn't find any. Of either."
Actually they did. You might want to read Mind-Reach, the 1977 original book about SCANATE, the SRI project that later became GRILL FLAME then was closed (at least officially) by the CIA under the name STAR GATE. Some of their 'hits' detailed in this book are pretty darn impressive.
http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Reach-Scientists-Psychic-Abilities-Conscious [amazon.com]
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Some of their 'hits' detailed in this book are pretty darn impressive.
Care to relate any of them?
The tricky thing about remote viewing is not that it doesn't work, but that it's hard to separate the 'signal' from the 'noise'.
Which is, in essence, the definition of a cold reading. [wikipedia.org]
While I'm at it, check out Banachek [banachek.org].
I'm not saying it's impossible, and I would agree with this:
But when you get significant results that contradict theory, it's the theory that should change, if you're doing science.
However, this being little more than a hobby, I don't really want to buy a book. If the results really are that compelling, there should be some web resource you can point me to.
Re:3rd photo (Score:5, Interesting)
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The first comment on the article is hilarious. (Score:5, Funny)
"This thing is going to kill us all."
Re:The first comment on the article is hilarious. (Score:5, Funny)
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Don't cross the streams (Score:5, Informative)
Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
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"This thingis going to kill us all"
Don't worry, be happy....... that if it does it will happen so fast that you won't know it.
However become concerned if you live within 50 miles and the power in your home drops out around the time they turn it on.
that's lots of storage! (Score:2)
Yes, it does run linux (Score:5, Informative)
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This looks like something from Half Life (Score:4, Funny)
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Slashdot + page of high res photos (Score:5, Funny)
.. this can't end well
Petabytes (Score:3, Informative)
They have enough bandwidth to transfer datasets that are measured in terabytes to universities around the world.
Actually the datasets are now measured in petabytes. The first test petabyte of data, for ATLAS at least, was transfered out of CERN in 2006.
Valve will sue (Score:4, Funny)
this is clearly copyright infringement.
Obsoletely Amazing... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Obsoletely Amazing... (Score:5, Insightful)
+1 on amazing.
I don't know how it works exactly, but it's massive, incredibly complicated and absolutely stunning. Something of a beacon to children becoming interested in science, I'm sure.
A toast to the brains behind it and those who got it funded.
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the most impressive thing (Score:5, Insightful)
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I was thinking the same thing. Could this be the most complex device ever assembled by humankind? Just the diagnostics and debugging seems way beyond daunting.
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And what about reproducibility?.
It would be rather hard too say "Oh yeah, I confirmed that experiment in my laboratory". If something would be wrong wired and thereby giving some false positives, how do you test for those? They must have some redundant checking mechanism somewhere...
Blueprint for an alien invasion (Score:5, Funny)
Search for exotic particles? Yeah right!
Re:Blueprint for an alien invasion (Score:5, Funny)
If this wasn't designed by inter-galactic aliens, i'll eat my hat.
I don't think eating tin foil is that great an idea...
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.. about the size of a pea. (Score:4, Funny)
Holy Shit! (Score:5, Funny)
Picture 5, I just spotted the Higgs Boson! Oh no wait, hold on. False alarm folks. Just a dead pixel.
Higgs Photo Here (Score:3, Informative)
ET technology (Score:4, Insightful)
The Big Picture (Score:3, Informative)
Wow! (Score:3, Funny)
machine porn vs beautiful science (Score:4, Insightful)
The tools are beautiful objects, to be sure. But what makes beautiful science is elegant, concise, and simple (within the context) descriptions of how the universe works.
I wanted to try and find (Score:3, Funny)
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That's because the real name is lake Leman, not Geneva, dont know why english folks use the Geneva town name for the lake
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You just reminded me of an LHC fact my professor told me a year or so ago: when lake geneva is particularly full, the *country* bends enough that CERN have to take it into account. It's just that sensitive.
Re:I wanted to try and find (Score:5, Informative)
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The comments (Score:3, Insightful)
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Naw, it's gonna be filled with black holes.
THE END IS NIGH! REPENT!!!
Not quite... (Score:3, Interesting)
According to Wikipedia, 95% confidence interval is 114 to 140 GeV/c2.
That is if you fit it to the Standard Model. Since we have no idea if the SM holds to LHC energies you cannot really believe that as a real bound. In fact, if we measure the Higgs at 200GeV/c2 my guess is that we'd revisit some of the input measurements and find that the result is probably not as inconsistent as we originally thought i.e. take these limits with a LARGE grain of salt, they depend on a lot of different, complex measurements all being correct.
What is far more certain is that we have to see
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What is the condition called where you become sexually aroused by technology?
Technopr0n!
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What is the condition called where you become sexually aroused by technology?
Technopr0n!
Oops, that's the stuff that gets you there. What I meant to say was C!@L!$
Re:Arise! (Score:5, Funny)
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Whitespace is one of the technologies it would seem.
Re:System Shock (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:The "Time Projection Chamber" (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Dates? (Score:4, Funny)
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Well, if it does happen I expect you to come back to this thread and say you're sorry.
*nods*
Re:Mon Dieu! (Score:5, Funny)
This is for sure the stuff that sets Man apart from Animal!
Oh, please. The rats keep trying to build a cyclotron in my basement.
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Let's review the messed-up logic:
cyclic illogic #2
2A) Because input stimuli in the LHC happen in nature all of the time, the LHC is perfectly safe.
versus
2B) We have spent billions of Euros on this thing, because we have never observed the outcomes of the LHC in nature.
1A and 1B cannot both be true. 2A and 2B cannot both be true.
Your cyclic illogic has a fatal flaw. Just because we know these things happen in nature all the time doesn't mean we can easily study them. However, we know they happen, the Earth has survived 4.5by of them, and we're not dead yet. Ergo, they can't be too dangerous.
Mother Nature does hit the Earth with collisions of LHC energies on up all the time and has been doing so since the beginning. Although we know this because we can see the results with cosmic ray experiments, they are unusual enough that we