Large Hadron Collider to be switched on 10th Sept

[TrueSceptic]

Thanks but:

I thought that might be the case. I'll let you know if I see it anywhere else.

 

[alfaniner]

I suddenly have the urge to read Thrice Upon a Time and The Light of Other Days again. It's quite exciting to know we'll be learning something never known before.

 

[Furi]

I thought that might be the case. I'll let you know if I see it anywhere else.

It may be listed on the listen again list, it's a real media stream (*Fluffs up fur in protest*) but if you use a crapware free version should be ok

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml

 

[TrueSceptic]

It may be listed on the listen again list, it's a real media stream (*Fluffs up fur in protest*) but if you use a crapware free version should be ok

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml

Different thing. I'm talking about BBC 4 (Four) TV, not BBC Radio 4.

 

[Furi]

Different thing. I'm talking about BBC 4 (Four) TV, not BBC Radio 4.

That would explain why I haven't heard any of the programs yet.

*Moron Moment, I has it*

 

[Undesired Walrus]

I was utterly lost in at least three quarters of the Brian Cox show. Does the Higs (?) field they wish to uncover act as a sort of anti-ether (I.e, everything slows down when it passes through aside from photons which avoid the field?)?

Expect a lot of theists to repeat the phrase 'Scientists have found the God Particle'.

 

[Hellbound]

I was utterly lost in at least three quarters of the Brian Cox show. Does the Higs (?) field they wish to uncover act as a sort of anti-ether (I.e, everything slows down when it passes through aside from photons which avoid the field?)?

Expect a lot of theists to repeat the phrase 'Scientists have found the God Particle'.

Depends on which Higgs field

But, one of the Higgs fields is expected to be involved in inertia, which roughly corresponds to what you're saying and is likely what they are looking for. It acts on things that attempts to change their motion, i.e.-accelerated matter and/or particles. This field is theorized to have been involved in the early universe, and the inflationary models of cosmology rely on the Higgs field for some of the effects (IIRC).

NOTE: I an not an expert, just a well-read layman. Take the above with a grain of salt, etc. It is simply my understanding which may, admittedly, be wrong and is certainly incomplete.

 

[Confuseling]

...It's quite exciting to know we'll be learning something never known before.

You don't know that, man. What if the ancients were, like, colliding hadrons with massive henge technology?

 

[petra10]

Oh no, my daughter and her friends came home from school today saying " the worlds gonna end on Wednesday". The teacher was trying to explain it to them but they being drama queens could only focus on that part of the explaintion.

At least they are getting excited about science

I have promised them a treat if we are all still alive on Thursday.

 

[YeahDude]

Oh no, my daughter and her friends came home from school today saying " the worlds gonna end on Wednesday". The teacher was trying to explain it to them but they being drama queens could only focus on that part of the explaintion.

At least they are getting excited about science

I have promised them a treat if we are all still alive on Thursday.

Maybe you should have told her that she doesn't have to do her homerwork wed. night(If the world ends who wants to be stuck doing homerwork) in exchange if the world doesn't end she will have to do her homework RIGHT after school everyday!

 

[andyandy]

That's not true at all. Why would you say that?

Way back in 2003 the schedule was that the machine would be ready in the last quarter of 2007. Instead, it was ready by July 2008. For a project of this scale that's remarkably little delay.

To me a year is a long time, I guess it just goes to show that time is relative

 

[MG1962]

Can't wait for it to happen!

Hope they discover all we hope, and much more.

Yes like who shot JFK, and what did John Lennon find attractive about Yoko, thats bugged me for years.

 

[Confuseling]

They might even bring back Elvis.

 

[CapelDodger]

Pah... In no time at all we'll all be sporting Portable Hadron Colliders.

No doubt, but the battery-chargers will be equilateral triangles nine miles on a side.

 

[petra10]

Maybe you should have told her that she doesn't have to do her homerwork wed. night(If the world ends who wants to be stuck doing homerwork) in exchange if the world doesn't end she will have to do her homework RIGHT after school everyday!

Great idea YeahDude, I put that to her and she now agrees with me . She is still wanting her whole weeks pocket money instead of my offer to only give her enough till Wednesday.

 

[Rasmus]

Great idea YeahDude, I put that to her and she now agrees with me . She is still wanting her whole weeks pocket money instead of my offer to only give her enough till Wednesday.

You need to make a better offer there, kinda like the homework one:

Three week's pocket money now in exchange for 5 or 6 weeks without should the world fail to end for another month or two.

 

[TrueSceptic]

I thought that might be the case. I'll let you know if I see it anywhere else.

'The Guardian' had a supplement that covers much the same ground as the BBC prog. Well worth a read.

 

[alfaniner]

Here's what a portion of Switzerland is going to look like in a few days...

 

[CapelDodger]

Here's what a portion of Switzerland is going to look like in a few days...

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/imagehosting/17148c30df3bd6dc.jpg

Skateboard heaven.

 

[porch]

Skateboard heaven.

I've heard of "Skate and Destroy" before; This is more like Skate in Destroy. Dropping in to the bottomless bowl . . .