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Large Hadron Collider
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Ever since the dawn of man we have strived to smash things together at higher and higher velocities. From smashing flint to create fire, to smashing cars together for enjoyment, society has always been improved by more and faster smashing.
We knew what happened when really big things smashed together--big explosions.
Then some guy said "I wonder what would happen if we smashed really tiny things together." And so the particle accelerator was born.
http://www.aip.org/history/lawrence/epa.htm
In plain English, they wanted to impress the ladies.
Over many years, science built progressively larger and more powerful machines as we reached the limits of each power level. Then Jesus came down to earth and asked CERN to build the Large Hadron Collider to bring forth the four horsemen of the apocalypse through a black hole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
By order of King Larlar, this is the thread were we talk about the LHC.
We knew what happened when really big things smashed together--big explosions.
Then some guy said "I wonder what would happen if we smashed really tiny things together." And so the particle accelerator was born.
http://www.aip.org/history/lawrence/epa.htm
John D. Cockcroft and Ernest Walton at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, sought a way into the nucleus through a prediction of quantum mechanics. George Gamow had suggested that a particle with too little energy to overcome the electrical repulsion of the nucleus through the barrier. (The trick was that the energy of the particle was not actually well-defined, according to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle). In 1930 Cockcroft and Walton used a 200-kilovolt transformer to accelerate protons down a straight discharge tube, but they concluded that Gamow's tunnelling did not work and decided to seek higher energies.
To penetrate the nucleus, Cockcroft and Walton built a voltage multiplier that used an intricate stack of capacitors connected by rectifying diodes as switches. By opening and closing switches in proper sequence they could build up a potential of 800 kilovolts from a transformer of 200 kilovolts. They used the potential to accelerate protons down an evacuated tube eight feet long. In 1932 they put a lithium target at the end of the tube and found that protons disintegrated a lithium nucleus into two alpha particles. A Soviet team in Kharkov found the same result several months later.
In plain English, they wanted to impress the ladies.
Over many years, science built progressively larger and more powerful machines as we reached the limits of each power level. Then Jesus came down to earth and asked CERN to build the Large Hadron Collider to bring forth the four horsemen of the apocalypse through a black hole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
By order of King Larlar, this is the thread were we talk about the LHC.
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It's kinda sad that the graphics for that were so highly praised at the time, but now I look at the hi-res and just think it looks amateurish.
Still, I'd love to give the game a spin one day. I only ever played it at a friend's place, so didn't get more than about 10 minutes in.