[Kickass Conservative]

I guess this means that Black Hole they are going to create that will end the world won’t happen until 2012, just as predicted.

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[coconutt2000]

Darn the thing worked last September when they switched it on. We got sucked into an alternate Universe where a man with no positive record and history won the Presidential election based on two books he published about himself.

Perhaps if we make them reverse the polarity and engage the dilithium crystal power core, and eject the warp engine we might just return to our own reality...

Sadly it would be a reality where instead of a socialist without a record for President, we’d have a backstabbing former Senator from Arizona whose last real achievement was his service during the Vietnam War and marrying rich.

I wonder if there is a reality where Fred Thompson won the Primary and the General Election. I’d like to end up there. Flip the switch.

[tet68]

Probably built with Lucas electrical parts, no wonder.

If they had built the one in Texas, it would be up and running by now.

[Nathan Zachary]

Or, it could mean that these “scientists” are in the same league as the ‘global warming’ “scientists”, and have just bilked 9 billion dollars out of stupid and gullible politicians to build a life sized version of their fantasy, while collecting paychecks and pensions, and watching star trek re-runs in the facilities conference room on taxpayer supplied wide screen plasma tv’s, not to enjoy the program, but to see what information they missed when building this collider.

[BGHater]

‘After 15 years and $9 billion,’

Oops, sorry, I thought it was about the big dig.

[GeronL]

*snicker*

[Joe Boucher]

When this was first being bantered about our U.S. scientists claimed not going ahead with this would place the U.S. far behind in the race for the study of physics.
It was deemed too expensive for pure science.
and then the E.U. picked up the idea to have it done in Europe.
Guess they used Euro unionists to built this p.o.s. , Great job there euroweenies.

[count-your-change]

15 years and 9 billion bucks and the best they can come up with is, ‘The magnets aren’t comfortable’?????

[Ancient Drive]

[Larry381]

The energy shortfall could also limit the collider’s ability to test more exotic ideas, like the existence of extra dimensions

Some scientists were hoping that the answer to this question would finally open the secrets of the universe to human eyes.

[Caesar Soze]

So I said, “Supercollider? I hardly know her!”

[Portcall24]

Sean Riley on a show called World’s Toughest Fixes just did an hour on replacing one of the magnets. They call the LHC the world’s largest scientific instrument. The same show is going to be on again Thursday evening on National Geographic Channel (NGC).

[Vaduz]

Somebody needs to turn on the overhead sprinklers on when it powers up Pooooof.

[neverdem]

Cell-sized vesicle assembly line

Low vitamin D levels linked to metabolic syndrome

Findings May Explain Gap in Cancer Survival

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list. Anyone can post any unposted link as they see fit.

[Condor51]

“The fact is, it’s likely to take a while to get the results we really want,” said Lisa Randall, a Harvard physicist who is an architect of the extra-dimension theory.

Yep I was right I knew it was her. She's kinda hot.

However, she ain't exactly 'an architect of the extra-dimension theory'. Her specialty is Gravity.

Not until the String Theory proponents realize that its 10 Dimensions wasn't exactly kosher (there were 5 different 'answers', and in physics that's 4 too many) and they needed another dimension, the 11th - Gravity - to make it work. And that gave us the M-Theory which solves 'everything', and that's when she gained prominence with other 'Gravity' Physicists (previously they were treated like kooks). [I've dumbed this down for lurkers]

But yeah, she's a babe and smart to boot. (prolly fricken gay) /s

[SuperLuminal]

"...biggest, most expensive... "

And, therein, lies the reason for the multi-decade decline in the quality of basic physics.

Consider the decades between 1850 and 1870..... magnificent minds at minimal costs made giant leaps in the various fields of physics.

Since the 1970's .....very little by comparison.

Why?

IMHO, two things:

1. Sen Mike Mansfield gutted the most important (and most consistent) support for basic physics and, as a result fewer "magnificent" minds were either trained, discovered, or supported; and,
2. Academic & government research goals became a political race to building the most expensive "toys". Naked political ideologies have played a key role in reducing some formerly important laboratories to politicians' playgrounds that dabble in innocuous crap.