[jakster]

I see allot of people posting that the machine has been tested. I do not think it was tested. I understand that they injected the matter stream into the tunnel. That is not the test people. Only when both streams of matter are injected and collide which is the key word. When they smash together then it is a test or a big mistake what ever the outcome. They if it works will continue to increase the amounts of energy and matter until they get the big bang or a really big bang. Anyway maybe it would be best to know at what hour on Sept 9th-10th it will be fired up. I say ninth because of the time line. I would like to sin in my yard with a good stiff drink and a joint just in case it goes bad have a front row seat to the show.

[LukeL]

This does have me a little concerned, doesn’t the presence of cosmic rays and oh my god particles prove nothing will happen? I have heard some say this isn’t true because it isn’t a head on collision. But I would assume cosmic rays must collide head on all the time as well.

[SunkenCiv]

I really hate it when the Fourth of July firecrackers start popping all over late in June and continue all hours of the night around here until the kids run out of them. I hope some dopey permissive parent doesn’t cross state lines and bring in some hadron colliders, or the whole neighborhood will be vanishing into black holes every night for weeks.