Large Hadron Collider Creates 'Mini Big Bang' with Lead Ions

Telegraph.co.uk ^ | November 8, 2010 | Staff

[brivette]

I believe they use magnetic field containment.

[brivette]

I believe they use magnetic field containment.

[brivette]

I believe they use magnetic field containment.

[brivette]

I believe they use magnetic field containment.

[balls]

I woke up this morning with a Large Hadron....

Make sure you call your doctor if it lasts longer than 4 hours.

[Democrat_media]

This is just more government funded junk science like global warming.

These idiots have no clue. Of course they come up with wild theories to get millions in government grants.

[Erasmus]

"Digital beds! Antproof casters! Watches that won't melt! A cure for the Shuffles!

Easy! Efficient! Affordable!

And all this by ...... Sixty-one!"

---Jonas Acme, fair-haired pharaoh of American Industry, explaing his theft of the fabled Zeppelin Tube ("Useless Tube or Tool of the Universe") from its pagan worshippers in SumaRatra.

[Erasmus]

They’re verrrrrrry long.

[Erasmus]

“The source advised that they had searched under the Aspelund, on top of the Leksvik and even down the back of the Smogen (the containment fields) but were unable to locate the missing black hole.”

What more do you want?

I wish they'd look beyond the Ikea store.

[Erasmus]

And Gregory Benford's Cosm. It has this experiment as its premise.

[ErnBatavia]

I woke up this morning with a Large Hadron....

Make sure you call your doctor if it lasts longer than 4 hours.

Coming from a screen name such as yours, I'll take that advice very seriously.

[GreenHornet]

At these temperatures even protons and neutrons, which make up the nuclei of atoms, melt resulting in a hot dense soup of quarks and gluons

I had a bowl of Campbell's Creamy Quarks and Gluons for dinner last night.

[Erasmus]

Yes, magnetic containment to form the beams. But inertial containment for the actual collision reactions.

That is, the mass of the particles prevents them getting out of each other’s way for a femtosecond or so, then they all go blooey and the detectors pick up the fragments to see what happened.

The momenta of many of the charged fragments from this type of experiment make it impossible to contain them in the available magnetic field.

[Erasmus]

And if it does, ErnBatavia recommends you take it to FermiLab.

[mmercier]

One of the things I use to decide which books to read is thickness.

The 3/4” weenies get read and forgot in a day. “The Perfect Storm” is an example of a great book lacking breadth. I paid $35/hour for that DaVinci code ripoff of "Holy Blood Holy Grail" that I read in highschool.

One weenie I read in the 70’s still remains, and pertains to this topic.. “Mindbridge”, I believe was the tittle.

Lately, I am stuck in an Ayn reread spiral. Did pop in Ken Follets “Pillars of the Earth” (fabulous read). Digression is occasionally necessary to retain sanity.

[Harold Shea]

His novel Earth is great

His short story The Loom of Thessaly is a favorite of mine

[UCANSEE2]

Does this mean we've created a metal that withstands the heat of the sun, or greater? I would think these kinds of temperatures would have melted the entire collider.

The explosion is contained in a magnetic field, and never gets near the surface of the metal tube.

[UCANSEE2]

Of course, I could be wrong.