Largest Particle Accelerator?

[UTbone04]

www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/08/lhc.collider/index.html

This is very exciting that they are about to turn on this accelerator and run tests on the origin of our universe. But I thought UT is almost done building the largest particle accelerator in the world under RLM headed by Ditmire? I'm confused.

 

[utexas_61]

UT has the largest "laser"

 

[MilkmanDan]

But no sharks, unfortunately.

 

[gardere_owns_OU]

we need the damn sharks.

this accelerator business really intrigues me. if we do in fact survive, i'm curious what the scientist discover.

 

[Leffe]

Steven Hawking bet $100 that the God particle will NOT be found. Six billion Euro down the drain???

 

[homer]

they just fired off the first set of experiments. exciting ****.

we're all still here. guess we are going to live.

 

[The Eyes of Texas]

maybe this is how dinosaurs really became extinct...

 

[Bookman]

If they want to find black holes, they should start in Norman, Oklahoma.

 

[Math Mudrat]

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[Leffe]

I agree, but it still would be dissapointing.

 

[general35]

we're all still here. guess we are going to live.
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I don't think the particles start colliding until late October, I believe they just turned it on.

Frankly, I think the entire thing is stupid and a complete waste of money and a chance it is dangerous.

The upside: we discover the world's smallest particle or whatever it is or prove the big bang occurred.....ok, the scientists can then have a glass of champagne and a very expensive one at that....i mean who really cares, i'm trying to save 10 million so i can retire in style (which at the rate we are going might be worth a few thousand at that time), who gives a **** how we got here....the truth is we still wont know..

The downside: we get torn into a million pieces.....


I really believe this thing does something else, it has to....

 

[celis]

The upside is new technologies that come from building the thing and analyzing the data.

The downside is getting blown to a million pieces.

 

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[Lone Star]

I wish this thing were sitting under Waxahachie, Texas.

 

[Napoleon]

At first glance just now, I read:
"Largest PICKLE Accelerator"

I thought, I've got to read about that.

 

[mia1994]

We are seriously missing out not being more involved with this. The ancillary discoveries (engineering, etc) are going to be cutting edge for a few decades, being the center of the physics would be huge prestige.

The chances of the world being destroyed by the LHC are about the same as the internal combustion engine on your car accidentally splitting an atom. The earth has been consistently bombarded with particles with higher energies for our entire +4 billion years. That we've survived this long indicates to me that we are more than likely safe.

 

[PacSER]

Since the one in Wax. was going to be more powerful than LHC, my hope is the discoveries are important enough to convince the U.S. to move forward with this program.