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First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
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RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
(June 2, 2015 at 9:44 am)I Pyrrho Wrote: Sciencey things just don't have the excitement they used to have.  Looking at data and doing statistical analyses just isn't the same as:


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Trinity test (first atomic bomb test).


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Both of the above are from Apollo 11, the first landing on the moon.



Your little toy doesn't seem to have the same destructive capabilities of things in the past.  How many people have been killed with the LHC?  If it could vaporize a city, then you would have something!

That is probably why we Americans changed our minds about our own little toy, as what is the point if there is not a lot of fire and explosions going on?  Advancing knowledge, you say?  Pfffffft.  When you figure out how to use that knowledge to blow something up, then give us a call.



How about this, LHC so dwarves the trinity test that if the trinity atomic bomb were to detonate in the center of accelerator donut,  the entire donut would be well outside of danger zone.

LHC is so vast that it would take SATURN 5 Rockets a full minute, and 600 tons of fuel, or a quarter of its entire fuel load, to climb a distance equal to the diameter of the LHC.

If you put LHC in Washington state it would completely encircle Mt. St. Helens. 

LHC is a god damned megamachine of a dimension so gargantuan you can not only see it from space, but even from low earth orbit it would look almost as big as your palm held at the end of your extended arm.

Of course SSC would have been much more impressive still, but c'est la vie.
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Wimpy little toy. - by Pyrrho - May 21, 2015 at 1:25 pm
Please explain the universe. - by Pyrrho - May 30, 2015 at 2:09 pm
RE: - (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - May 30, 2015 at 2:38 pm
Pictures! - by Pyrrho - May 30, 2015 at 7:52 pm
... - by Pyrrho - May 31, 2015 at 7:43 pm
RE: - (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 1, 2015 at 11:55 pm
RE: - (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 1, 2015 at 10:32 pm
RE: - (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 2, 2015 at 9:44 am
RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Anomalocaris - June 2, 2015 at 12:38 pm
RE: - (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 2, 2015 at 11:35 am
RE: - (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 2, 2015 at 4:18 pm
Cat Porn - by Pyrrho - June 2, 2015 at 5:40 pm
RE: First collisions at the LHC - by JuliaL - June 4, 2015 at 12:58 pm
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám - by Pyrrho - June 4, 2015 at 1:08 pm
The Rubáiyát & other stuff - by Pyrrho - June 5, 2015 at 1:34 pm
RE: - (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 6, 2015 at 1:48 pm
RE: - (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 6, 2015 at 10:31 pm
RE: - (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 7, 2015 at 12:49 pm
RE: - (Ask a metaphysisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 8, 2015 at 3:19 pm
RE: - by Iroscato - June 8, 2015 at 7:21 am
RE: - (Ask a metaphysisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 8, 2015 at 5:31 pm
RE: - (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 9, 2015 at 4:12 pm
RE: - (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 9, 2015 at 5:40 pm
RE: Uncle K - by Pyrrho - June 10, 2015 at 12:40 pm
RE: - (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 9, 2015 at 8:54 pm
RE: - (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 9, 2015 at 10:53 pm
RE: - (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - June 10, 2015 at 2:11 pm
RE: (Ask a particle physisicist) - by Pyrrho - September 2, 2015 at 1:11 pm
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