CERN's "Baby Bang" experiment and a doorway to another dimension

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Baby Bang experiment could open door to new dimension

Monday September 11, 2006

Deep underground on the Franco-Swiss border, someone will throw a switch next year to start one of the most ambitious experiments in history, probing the secrets of the universe and possibly finding new dimensions...
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MINI BANGS

* Scientists aim to reproduce miniature versions of the so-called Big Bang, which is thought to have started the universe.

* To do this they will smash protons together at huge speeds along a 27km tube known as a particle accelerator.

* They hope to create tiny black holes or find extra dimensions in the universe.

* They estimate the possibility of accidentally destroying the planet as extremely low.

* The risk is calculated at about 10 to the minus 40 - a 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance.

http://ffmedia.ign.com/filmforce/image/tarareid_aloneinthedark.jpg
SCIENCE!

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, and check it:

http://media.apn.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/cern_facility.jpg

line forms for the stargate over here.

other jokes:

http://www.noopectro.com/hl2c/screenshots/characters/Scientist.jpg

"They're waiting for you, Gordon, in the tessssst chamber."

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

I've bought a crowbar, just in case.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

still, with quotes like these, don't you feel reassured:

"For the first time in many decades we have built a machine that exceeds our powers of prediction.

"New processes are bound to be discovered. We are truly journeying into unknown territory."

Dr Cox dismissed worries that by adventuring into the unknown and creating tiny black holes, the machine could even destroy the planet.

"The probability is at the level of 10 to the minus 40," he said.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

wolfmother to thread

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

we're all doomed.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

i wanna be there though! PRESS PASS>

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't there something during the early days of the manhattan project about how they didn't know if the a-bomb would ignite the atmosphere, or the experiments underneath chicago would get a bit bigger than they'd planned?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

Something like that, some were afraid it would cause a chain reaction and similarly destroy the planet.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:49 (nineteen years ago)

AND BLOW MY MIND.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

Where are we going?
PLANET TEN!
When?
REAL SOON!

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

"They're waiting for you, Gordon, in the tessssst chamber."

i ADORE the sinister delivery of that line.

― it's teh_kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 21 September 2006 06:33 (nineteen years ago)

This is really the sort of wacky science we need more of. Only good things can come from experiments where scientists have no idea what to expect.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Thursday, 21 September 2006 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

They weren't sure whether an atomic bomb would initiate a process where successive layers of the earth's surface would be blown off in sequence, like the peeling of an onion, thereby destroying the planet in rather spectacular fashion. Fortunately, they were smart enough to do some calculations before doing the first A-bomb tests, and found that there was very little risk of this happening.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

I really don't want to know about the pr0n version of this.

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hi everyone! It worked! It's not April 4th, 2007 and I have returned to let you all know that Osama still hasn't been caught yet!

(oh, and StanM: don't play the lottery, it's useless. And I'm still single, don't bother with L.)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

(not -> now) (keyboards still suck in 2007)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

My parents live in the same village as this in France! From the outside it is a very disappointing warehouse thing. I have been informed that it will be removed once all the digging is done.

I don't like my parents being near little black holes :(

Also aren't these the guys (CERN) who were responsible for the internet?

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

No. They're the people who were responsible for the invention of the world-wide web, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:48 (nineteen years ago)

One CERN researcher invented the WWW (the hypertext concept, the html language and the http protocol).

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

The hypertext concept was already well-developed by then, Ed - it had first been invented in the 1960s. Apple Hypercard was released in the mid-80s, I think.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

A quick google says you are correct.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

what if it opens a doorway to hades

― evolution gods think latebloomer, lead singer of Babies Love Beer, is wrong (lat, Thursday, 21 September 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

LIBERACE TOOTIE EX IN FURNACE

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 21 September 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

when next year?

(ps this is great)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 21 September 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

It's not like the've got no idea of what's going to happen...It's just that they don't know which of the possibilities to expect

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

One step closer to mans ultimate goal, destroying our master, the sun and replacing it with something of our own invention.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

omg i LOVE this. sexy science rowr. there were some scientists talking on r4 last night about dark matter and... phwooargh. i turned into a kitten.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tip.csiro.au/general/images/WayCoolScience.jpg

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if I can really be excited about this experiment unless I see some pics of technicians in really snappy silvery jumpsuits.

― Songbirds of Darker Florida (cprek), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

CERN is a cool place. I went there on a 6th form science trip. They have a 15 Tesla Magnet.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

15 Tesla Chick Magnet more like it.

― Songbirds of Darker Florida (cprek), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, I keep that in my pocket.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

another photo:

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060907/i/r3356243006.jpg?x=380&y=266&sig=Cz03E8L0cjsFej5alELlGQ--
Visitors look into the 27km (16.8 miles) long underground ring LHC (Large Hadron Collider) in Geneva, October 16, 2004. The Large Hadron Collider at the CERN experimental facility near Geneva will smash protons into each other at unimaginable speeds trying to replicate in speeds trying to replicate in miniature the events of the Big Bang.
REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.michaelhanscom.com/graphics/familycthulu4ld.gif

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Cover of next DEVO album.

xpost

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

aaaaaand their webpage:

http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.archivodenessus.com/images/she_climbed_across_the_table.jpg

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

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