
Much beset by magnet quenches, birds, bread, black holes, evil time travelers, and fools, the Large Hadron Collider successfully came online and orbited a proton beam today!
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YES FINALLY WE WILL GET VIDEO OF SOME GOOD LARGE HARD ONS COLLIDING!
were dead
Good, they've had their troubles.
I've been amazed at the lack of media coverage on this -- in the US and Europe. If this was a NASA project, seven kinds of hell would have been dropped on them by now.
FINALLY! It's about gorram time! Now! can we get to hyperspace travel pleeeeeezze!?!?!?
cantubury at your service So, we will be able to re-create the "big bang" & presto, ending the universe as we know it. Wow, and I will bet this will take place at 01/01/2012; as the Myan's predicted...technology, what next and we cannot travel hyperspace beacuse al of the dark matter in the universe some 10^100 because there is not enough energy to create a wormhold, but who asked me anyway
cantubury at your service So, we will be able to re-create the "big bang" & presto, ending the universe as we know it. Wow, and I will bet this will take place at 01/01/2012; as the Myan's predicted...technology, what next and we cannot travel hyperspace beacuse al of the dark matter in the universe some 10^100 because there is not enough energy to create a wormhole, but who asked me anyway
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LOL I really need someone to show me a translation of Mayan hieroglyphs that includes "end of the universe" or "atom smasher" or anything of the sort. Its like you have a million fanatics saying the worlds going to end because of some ancient prophecy, but none of them have ever read any Mayan text or translation, and don't know anything about the Mayan culture or calendar.
ok so what happens when you collide two of anything together? it breaks into pieces and that's what we're trying to do. and if you think its the end of the universe, you need to go do some research. blackholes aren't created that way
Wow cantubury...... the mayans predicted it would en on 12/23/2012....duhhhhhhh >_< get your facts right!!
Everything that I have read states it could be 12/21/2012 or 12/23/2012 due to a possible calculation error. And it only refers to a time period ending and a new one starting, or a shift from one event to another, but either way it brings with it a change of some sort. Nothing refers to the end of time or a populated planet becoming a planet void of human life....just saying...
What is with the bold text?
I agree with madcat. This could just help us start the next era that the Mayans predicted would come around after the winter solstice of 2012. Who knows what we'll be able to understand with the data obtained from this. I know I'm exited!
or how about the fact that the mayans become extinct... along with all of their calandar makers. i'll bet that might have some bearing.
Surfguru......It will create black holes. They will just be so small that they will colapse on themselves and do no harm to us or the planet.
either way were dead because people will panic do suicide and then kill others to see them in the afterlife
You killed me AFTER you committed suicide? That's amazing! I'm not even mad!
The man and the woman in the foreground of this photo have a very strange way of expressing their excitement. Someone submit this to failblog.
I wonder if the Mayan's forgot a leap year - Crap!
Yep we are dead but the Biblical date for the start of it all is May 21, 2011.
Those pesky lil Mayans. 2012 the new disaster movie, got the day right...
According to the bible, there will be a very large world wide earthquake on May 21, 2011. I wonder what could produce such an event?
After that day - 5-21-2011 six months later will be the total distruction of the universe.
Geee.... Wonder what could possibly bring that about.
If you want to know more google "May 21, 2011"
See ya all in the funnies!
Al
Yay!!! now a giant singularity will consume our planet.