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Check it out guys. The science folks have been creating The Large Hadron Collider.
Well, what does this mean? On September 10th 2008, a bunch of dorks get to see if all their theories pan out.
Excerpt:
Why should people care about this experiment and particle physics in general?
There are several ways to slice that question. The way it often comes is, Why should it be funded? Because on some level no one is going to be really offended if people spend their time thinking about this if it's not going to cost them anything. But if it's going to cost them a lot of money, then why should it be a priority for society?
The answer people normally give — and it's true — is particle physics is important to our understanding of the nature of the universe and the Big Bang, but there's another really good answer and no one ever gives it. The value of disciplines like particle physics and astrophysics is people.
Physicists are really in demand outside academia, and the reason they are is that the portable skills you get as a physicist are rare. You learn how to analyze problems from first principles, to translate that into mathematics, to solve the mathematics and then to translate it back into implications for the thing you are trying to solve. And that's really useful everywhere in the economy.
My students that go out into the workforce are bankers, insurance people, engineers and software people. These people are going into a very useful place in the economy, but they wouldn't have gone there directly. The reason they learn these skills is because particle physics is cool and you get to think about the universe as a whole, or you get to think about what matter is made of. And they are drawn by that in a way they wouldn't be drawn naturally into something like banking.
It's the old spin-off argument, but the way particle physicists would normally say it is in terms of materials and inventions made possible because of physics. But the real thing we make is people.
Article:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/08/15/f-burgess-lhc.html
Yeah, kind of a big thing.
Well, what does this mean? On September 10th 2008, a bunch of dorks get to see if all their theories pan out.
Excerpt:
Why should people care about this experiment and particle physics in general?
There are several ways to slice that question. The way it often comes is, Why should it be funded? Because on some level no one is going to be really offended if people spend their time thinking about this if it's not going to cost them anything. But if it's going to cost them a lot of money, then why should it be a priority for society?
The answer people normally give — and it's true — is particle physics is important to our understanding of the nature of the universe and the Big Bang, but there's another really good answer and no one ever gives it. The value of disciplines like particle physics and astrophysics is people.
Physicists are really in demand outside academia, and the reason they are is that the portable skills you get as a physicist are rare. You learn how to analyze problems from first principles, to translate that into mathematics, to solve the mathematics and then to translate it back into implications for the thing you are trying to solve. And that's really useful everywhere in the economy.
My students that go out into the workforce are bankers, insurance people, engineers and software people. These people are going into a very useful place in the economy, but they wouldn't have gone there directly. The reason they learn these skills is because particle physics is cool and you get to think about the universe as a whole, or you get to think about what matter is made of. And they are drawn by that in a way they wouldn't be drawn naturally into something like banking.
It's the old spin-off argument, but the way particle physicists would normally say it is in terms of materials and inventions made possible because of physics. But the real thing we make is people.
Article:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/08/15/f-burgess-lhc.html
Yeah, kind of a big thing.
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WELL IF PHYSICS IS SO DAMN GREAT HOW COME I'M WORKING IN A SUPERMARKET?
what was the supposed risk people were worried about? creating a tiny blackhole that won't go away?
This is incorrect.
They completed the construction and run-up, including the cooling of the components, making it colder than space.
Now they are testing each segment and will circulate the first beam on September 10th.
From there it will be a month or so as they increase the speed before they start bending the beams together to cause collisions.
...well played
It'd be all, hahahaha, in your face, christians! Where's your rapture now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt1Yo610lG0
http://www.lychesis.net/opinion/gallery/1/ep2_outland_11b0000.jpg
god I love that episode, and the one that references back to it is amazing
We could've destroyed the world in the 40's, man
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ahaha
Two dudes in Hawaii believe something that they've already gotten wrong and the entire qualified scientific community says they are wrong about, but I get 20 damn google alerts in my inbox every day about another story covering it.
he just keeps getting wackier and wackier as he goes along. It's a brilliant collapse into the utterly bizarre.
There's a great video of him in Germany or somewhere, trying to convince people on the street that things like arches and rooflines represent a freemason alien conspiracy.
Just the general doomsday nonsense.
Yeah but I was kinda looking forward to living on the earth for seven years in an apocalyptic wasteland
BLACK AS IN SATANIC
I say we give him LSD, chain him to a Tilt-O-Whirl and set the dial to 11.
"BLACK" AS IN SATANIC
Rock Star Keyboardist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl-ai9HuR60
Same name as this motherfucker:
Brilliant Physicist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6uKZWnJLCM
He's working on ATLAS, one of the detectors that is going to look for the Higgs Boson.