Particle Collider's Last Big Piece Set

newsvine.com ^ | Feb 29, 2008 | Alexander G. Higgens

[CheezyChesster]

GENEVA — Engineers on Friday fitted the last major piece into what they say will be the world's largest scientific instrument — a nuclear particle accelerator in a 17-mile tunnel under the Swiss-French border.

[DoughtyOne]

Sure glad we cancelled ours in Texas. I like the idea of France/Switzerland having better scientific research facilities than we do. Besides, spending tens of billions on welfare is so much better. /s

[the invisib1e hand]

yeah. life just isn't the same with out a partical collider.

I sold mine at a garage sale last year, and things haven't been the same since.

Here's a picture of it:

[Yossarian]

Sure glad we cancelled ours in Texas. I like the idea of France/Switzerland having better scientific research facilities than we do. Besides, spending tens of billions on welfare is so much better. /s

Yeah, but we got that swell ISS orbiting white elephant in return for ditching our Superconducting Supercollider! Aren't you happy about that?

[CheezyChesster]

I like to think of it from this point of view: If they are ultimately unable to contain any black holes created by this thing, It should mean that “they” will be the first to be sucked into it.

[DoughtyOne]

Damn that’s a big garage. Too bad the only room left on the property was that telephone booth sized house. ;-)

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah, international! Blah...

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t believe this one is about creating black holes. It’s excellerates particles and crashes them to do scientific research into the minutest particles of the universe. If I remember correct, we donated a hundred million or so for this project.

[LukeL]

I know quantum physcists have tried for over a decade to colide two crtain kind of particles head on, because something special is suppose to happen, but so far no luck.

[the invisib1e hand]

Damn that’s a big garage. Too bad the only room left on the property was that telephone booth sized house. ;-)

I built it with parts from an old refrigerator.

[The Cajun]

I built it with parts from an old refrigerator.

And I'll bet the ice maker now kicks out Higgs bosons.

[CheezyChesster]

The experiments that will be conducted will include proving the existance of the Higgs Boson particle also dubed the God particle. You can research the subject further from this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

[bruinbirdman]

""It's exciting but at the same time there is a feeling of relief," said Robert Aymar, director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, as he watched."

Heck, in that case they should build another one. This time check out those Maginot Line tunnels.

yitbos

[wastedyears]

Let’s just hope it swallows a few things and disappears. I’d hate to be swallowed by a manmade black hole, while standing on the Earth.

[Getready]

How many pieces of theoretical strings make up a Higgs boson?
Or is the Higgs the big enchilada, the “I am what I am”
force or vector or probability or energy or
weak symmetry breaking mathematical concept?

Stay tuned for next Mandelbrot view of the universe, opening
new venues and questions soon.

[ColdSteelTalon]

It would take less than a second for a black hole to swallow the earth I believe

[Wingy]

You wouldn’t believe all the D batteries I had to buy. Wow.

Shoulda' gone solar. Works great if Arizona has a cloudless day.

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah, they don’t make them like that anymore. ;-)

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah, that would seem a natural. Aren’t those pretty much all gone now?