Watch out our it’ll go after Uranus next.
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Seconded. 
Aww, thanks! Although the ‘Uranus’ comment should have been yours.
Yeah, the current plan for the first collision experiments to occur on Oct 21, so you still have until then to get your affairs in order.
Brilliant. Now I have a month to freak out and not sleep at night.
They still need to be very careful. After all, colliding large hadrons is frot with danger.
You mean ‘fraught’?
Even cooler: they don’t actually know if there even are Hadrons at all. It’s what they’re trying to find out.
They should have named it the Large “No-Obtanium” Collider.
Or a month to max out your credit cards.
We have a black hole over here, but it’s a small one. I hitched my beltloop to a heavy bookshelf with a carabiner, and I’m OK. I keep forgetting and setting down my pens and - zip! - they fly off! I’m thinking of tying a rope to my trousers and glueing cat food containers around the edge of the hole. Should clear the neighborhood of the yowly vermin.
Hadron collider. Bah.
Doc Proton and I once built an accellerater that collided grapefruit. Now that was a good time!
[Serious for a moment]It’s been a while since I studied* particle physics, but I believe hadrons are the class of elementary particle that includes the protons and neutrons we all know and love. They’re smashing protons together to see what particles come out. I suppose they should have called it the ‘Large Proton Collider’.[/SFAM]
*by ‘studied’ I mean, played lots of computer games, got the lecture notes a week before the exam, freaked out and decided to put all my trust in thermal and statistical physics - not very successfully as I recall.
Right you are. I got them confused with the Higgs Boson which are what they actually are trying to observe.
Hey, why single him out? Every person in this confusing pornographic thread has repeatedly misspelled “hard on”.
It has already happened. We’re all antimatter now.
Nah. I just did the antimatter test. I ate some chocolate. It tasted like chocolate. Chocolate composed of antimatter tastes like antichocolate, also known as vanilla.
Well, at least Keynes had a good long innings.
Out of curiosity, do you routinely lay awake at night worried about the possibility that the Sun might fail to rise tomorrow morning? Because that’s about the same amount of risk as is involved with the LHC. The absolute worst-case scenario is that a bunch of expensive laboratory equipment gets ruined. Well, I suppose there could also be a few hour power outage in Geneva, if there’s a surge that blows out a few transformers.
Now you’re just being silly. Everyone knows that antichocolate tastes like white chocolate.