"Hey, guys.You want to see what I've been working on?" "Sure, Jones.What is it?" "It's an atom smasher." "Oh, cool.Why an atom smasher?" "I wanted to see if I could peer into the possibilty of other demensions." "WTF, Jones. Are you f-in high?" "Yeah. It should work. In theory. I'm not too worried.I know what I'm doing. I've read about this for years and after all, I am a scientist." "...You've done this before?" "Technically? In a way. Sort of. I mean, not on this scale, but pretty close and by close I mean...you know..why are we discussing this? Nothing bad is going to happen." "...what...if it doesn't work?" "If it doesn't work, it'll either show nothing at all or it'll open up a black hole and swallow the Earth in a horrific end that'll change time and space as we know it, but we won't know any different because we'll all be smashed into the same space as an atom. Or it'll burn the Earth to a crisp and we'll all fry." " ! " "Yeah...Hey...you wanna help me put it together?" For the story check out: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/30/doomsdaycollider.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview :beer:
I read that article... then wished I hadn't! All we need is a mini-blackhole erupting out of France and consuming the world!
Jumping Jesus on a Trampoline. Who is paying for this crap. 5.6 Billion? So we can find out what? This is totally rediculous.
If any of those scientist say, "Dude watch this," we're in trouble. read the story. our government is paying for it, in part.
an "international consortium". so, the whirld is paying for it. heck the collider isn't even in one country in europe.
Don't think that we couldn't have built it here, employing Americans, using American subcontractors, and using the billions to stimulate our own economy... except it would still be tied up in court and we wouldn't have yet broken ground. Face it, Americans, as a group, do not WANT to build magnificent creations any more. You can't even build a @#$% strip mall any more without a squad of lawyers to push the project around the legal obstacles set up by unproductive busy bodies. Can you imagine, though? Build the accelerator in Bumfuque, Montana, and you'll have crackpots as far away as Chicago claiming that the Superconducting Z Radiation is penetrating their aluminum foil beanies.
Is this pay back for the french fries? We're sorry if you didn't like the Freedom Fries thing. We were angry, but we're over it now. I know enough about what they're doing to know I still don't know enough. I'm still trying to find out why they'd want to do this. Besides...it's only a 1 in 50,000,000 chance (assuming they carried the 1) it'll consume the Earth which is about the same chances for the lottery and lets face it-who's ever won that? Am I right? Just in case-I'm going to sue the French.
Meh, looks like a giant needle bearing. Nothing apocalyptic about that, really. Wonder if Hadley was part of this consortium :?:
They do that. I had one pop up in the kitchen and suck my cat into it. The next thing I knew, it was gone in a puff of smoke. Those blackholes. :beer: I'm pretty sure this is the plot line to the movie, "The Event Horizon." Other demensions? What could possibly happen?
We started one in Texas, but it was cancelled. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Supercollider
Seems it worked just long enough to create a weak black hole over Crawford, from which everything but intelligence could escape.
Politics aside, there were three compelling reasons to build the collider in Geneva: the CERNettes! http://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernettes/
