Follow the Large Hadron Collider Tonight!

[Lakerstan]

Here:

http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/

and here:

http://twitter.com/cern?sess=c0a0491ef80e73fa93f73432854ea8ca

[realisticphish]

1. cool nt

[vercetti2021]

2. We

Dead lol

[vercetti2021]

3. We

Dead lol

[Electric Monk]

4. Gonna disable itself retroactively from the future again? Stay tuned!

[DRoseDARs]

5. From the looks of posts 2 and 3, I'd say the fabric of space-time is already straining...

;)

[John Q. Citizen]

9. You can sit in the waiting room, or wait in the sitting room...

[DRoseDARs]

13. My name isn't Schrödinger, and don't call me Kat.

:hi:

[realisticphish]

6. cryo problem; two hour delay

that may do it for me... staying up til 5 to watch people look at a monitor is a little much, even for an uber-nerd like me ;)

[Lakerstan]

8. Me too

Although it was fun to watch the guy on the CMS webcast do the Rubik's cube while they were waiting. I like the way they have 5 different webcasts you can choose from.

[comrade snarky]

12. It's not like this is going to be visually exciting

It's super cool and all but if everything works those 5 people may jump up and down. If it doesn't they'll slump sadly.

Either way I'll read about it tomorrow.

Now if they would do it like this...

[realisticphish]

14. well yeah

everything REALLY interesting is subatomic...

great comic btw

[comrade snarky]

15. "Ow! My Faith!"

Makes me laugh every single time I read it.

[Electric Monk]

27. Yep, nice toon, I LOLed, and we're still here, as far as I can tell. (or are we....?)

[comrade snarky]

29. Nah, that universe was destroyed

This one was created last night. Somebody hit the reset. :evilgrin:

[rumpel]

7. exiting

thanks for the heads up

[Newest Reality]

10. Cool!

So, how fast would the black hole grow and how much time do we have before it reaches us? I mean, just in case ;)

On the other hand, if I wake-up tomorrow as a psychedelic potetntate with blue, penguin feet, waving my thirty-two arms around while playing Venusian Gin with the armor plated ghost of Einstein while the Grateful dead knit talking Buddha sculptures out of fiber optic spiders, I'll know why.

I better change my muons before I hit the sack. I am looking forward to the new colors that will be added to the visual spectrum. We all know that there are not enough primary colors.

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. A good youtube Video on 'How Does The Large Hadron Collider Work?'

A good Video on 'How Does The Large Hadron Collider Work?'

An interesting look at the different stages of the large hadron collider(LHC) which was recently "switched on" at CERN's particle physics lab.
It shows how they pump it up. Nice animation that explains how speed at some point reaches a maximum and from there on only changes in mass


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIeY7Zj27IM

[Kablooie]

16. Here is a live webcam of the interior of the lhc.

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

[realisticphish]

20. haha

[vercetti2021]

17. So

is this thing going to kill us?

[Kablooie]

18. The live webcam killed me.

[Warren DeMontague]

19. No, because I know the magic phrase to say, that will protect us.

"Klaatu... verata... n... Necktie. Nectar. Nickel. Noodle..."

[Ichingcarpenter]

21. 11.47AM local time -- Wake up! They're back,

11.47AM -- Wake up! They're back, the beams are now in position and are about to begin acceleration within minutes. Former project leader Lyn Evans was brought out for a quick interview and given just enough time to express that he's "very confident" things will go right this time.


live feed from engadget:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/large-hadron-collider-to-attempt-7-tev-proton-collisions-via-liv/

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

22. 7:15 a.m. EST estimate time for collision

1:15 p.m. Geneva time

[Ichingcarpenter]

23. Damn and now I have to go to work over here

I guess I'll find out if that's cat's still alive and dead when I get back.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. So, when do they expect to cross the streams? (nt)

[Kitty Herder]

25. That webcam's just a thrill a minute.

I don't know if I can stand it.

[Yuugal]

26. K&R

[Confusious]

28. NO!

If I watch it and a nuclear cosmic black hole forms, I'll be SUCKED THROUGH THE INTERTUBES!