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Digital Paint Community => Other Stuff => Topic started by: KnacK on August 02, 2008, 12:53:32 PM
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http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html
56k WARNING - HEAVY ON THE PICTURES
All I can say is wow.
Impressive is an understatement.
Too bad the US killed the SSC (http://www.hep.net/ssc/) back in '93.
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What exactly does it do aside from helping with physics experiments?
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This is really built for one specific physics experiment-- They're trying to create a particle that hasn't been seen yet, but has to exist to confirm some current theory.
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/me waits for them to open up a portal to Hell.
XD
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Anybody find it ironic that KnacK is giving 56k warnings? :)
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;D
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Reddit sent them a crowbar. (http://www.redditall.com/2008/08/great-idea-reddit-crowbar-for-cernlhc.html)
You know, in case they accidentally open a portal to another dimension or whatever it was.
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"Prepare for Unforeseen Consequences..."
I lol'd.
Those pictures give me inspiration for a railgun texture...
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i'd laugh if they got nothing out of it! lol, so much work.
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Bing! Look like the thing works without anything exploding. Pretty impressive, really.
In other news, they've got some really nice webcams (http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html) up looking inside the thing.
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The fear was that it'd create a black hole when turned on, but that didn't happen so we're good... for now. As far as I know the experiment hasn't been done yet, I believe it takes 1-2 weeks to get the atom going the speed of light before they collide it to try and recreate the big bang theory. It's really a fascinating breakthrough, whether it works or not.
Actually, if the experiment works, it'd create mini black holes that could still prove disastrous. It'd be funny actually, mostly in the sense that doomsday will start in a neutral country =]
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There's no freaking way the mini black holes can sustain themselves. 'Mini black hole' is just crazy-talk for 'A single really, really, really dense point'. Honestly, I think when the time comes that something's gonna break, just because projects of this scale never work.
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The fear was that it'd create a black hole when turned on
I thought the fear was that it'd happen after it hit full "power" (for lack of a better term on my end) in a few months.
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In other news, they've got some really nice webcams (http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html) up looking inside the thing.
Bahahahahahahaha!!!
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I thought the fear was that it'd happen after it hit full "power" (for lack of a better term on my end) in a few months.
The real experiment happens on the 21st, as I understand it.
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In other news, they've got some really nice webcams (http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html) up looking inside the thing.
I showed that 2 my friend, he got excrement scared. So funny, and it was in the classroom as well :P.
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It's like a stupid test! The severity of the reaction of the person watching is exponentially related to how dumb they are. :3
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they only test fired it yesterday. i believe they only sent the particles one way. the actual test won't happen for another few weeks. i heard that each time they do it, it will get faster and faster.
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www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com
and after that you can view the source page too ;)
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Another dimension? Hell? Awesome. My generation loved playing Doom. I think I'll walk around my fortress here in the rockies and make sure everything is locked and loaded. Give me a call when the creatures of hell eat your family.
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The news media was hilarious leading up to the test fire. Saying that it could create a black hole and end the world.
Really, if there was any chance of that, there would have been no funding for such a monumental project.
Also, you are right, the actual test doesn't happen for a few weeks, but there was that speculation that even just turning it on could create a black hole.
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This is the same type of crap that destroyed atlantis!!!!!!!
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They do the actual experiment tomorrow right?
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Whenever they get the atom going as fast as they want it, which they said could take a couple of weeks to do.
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Uhh, the 21st.
EDIT: Whoops. The 21st of October.
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Wow my chem/physics teacher wont shut up about this and he said he was sure they are doing it tomorrow. What a fool
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That's what the wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider) says, at least.
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yay just over a month to live!
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Give me a call when the creatures of hell eat your family.
... you forgot requesting some pictures mate.
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yay just over a month to live!
If there is a big bang, I guess there is for you. I enjoy living here, nothing to worry about. Rarely any natural disasters. But still, even if they do manage to make a black hole, it won't be able to feed off anything, plus it will be way to small. At least I don't have a science teacher that goes all "ZOMG, LETS WATCH IT" and all this excrement.
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lol I don't actually belive anything bad will happen I'm completley aware of the probable outcome so this isnt that exciting for me
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Errm, those scientists from CERN keep telling it's a natural process which happens often. They reason that if black holes would really be created the world would've already been destroyed.
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it's already broken :-\
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it's already broken :-\
Linky? I can't find anything bout it, unless I suck at searching.
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http://www.denverpost.com/rawnews/ci_10517118
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I suck at searching.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/20/2369983.htm?site=science&topic=latest
:D
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they had a transformer fail and had to shut down the whole experiement last i heard but i don't think it was a big issue and it should be up and running again shortly something to deal with it overcooling or undercooling in kelvin
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they had a transformer fail and had to shut down the whole experiement last i heard but i don't think it was a big issue and it should be up and running again shortly something to deal with it overcooling or undercooling in kelvin
Gillies said the sector that was damaged will have to be warmed up well above the absolute zero temperature used for operations so that repairs can be made—a time-consuming process.
"A number of magnets raised their temperature by around 100 degrees," Gillies said. "We have now to warm up the whole sector in a controlled manner before we can actually go in and repair it."
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He said it would take "several weeks minimum" to warm up the sector.
I think it will take a while to get it fixed. :P
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http://www.fpsbanana.com/threads/133530
;D for all those source game fans out there.
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Cern/Umbrella corp is the first thing i thought of when i heard the company name. I just wonder if all the money they put into trying to figure out how we got here. Was transfored to a greener tommorrow would it make a difference? Preparing for our limited petroleum future instead of unraveling the past? Just a thought.
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I wanted to do a map called small hadron collider :-(
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do it do it toga toga :) well whats stopping you now
I wanted to do a map called small hadron collider :-(
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Haha, have a large, circular tunnel with trigger_pushes that cause you to fly around it. Too bad there's not a way to make them team specific, so you could have one team going one way, and the other going the other.
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Just make a clip brush dividing the teams to seperate the tunnel in half, with only one half accessible from each base :D
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I just added teamnumber checks to the trigger_push for the next version. Easy enough. :)
Now I just need to make a program that can generate a large, hollow torus (or can BSP already do that?).
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Can you do that for trigger_multiples, as well please? If it's really as easy as you make it sound...
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If I remember when I get home... though there could be some complications with that since trigger_multiples are ultimately used for bases.
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Heh, forgot that's why I kept this thread marked as unread. I've finally implemented this for trigger_multiples - it should be in the next release.