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      Sit tight, a bigger bang is coming

      http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4749224.ece

      THE vast new Cern particle collider has only just hummed into life, but physicists are already drawing up plans for a still larger machine to answer the questions even Albert Einstein was unable to resolve.

      The International Linear Collider (ILC) would be a machine up to 31 miles long, comprising two giant “guns” that would accelerate electrons and particles of antimatter called positrons to near-light speeds before smashing them together.The results could open up some of the hottest topics in physics, such as the existence of extra dimensions, the origins of gravity and even how the big bang – the event that created the universe – happened.

      I spit my drink out laughing after reading the "still larger" part of the first paragraph. Damn awesome.
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      WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! Come on, we lived through LHC and now this?
      Surrender your flesh. We demand it.

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      sounds amazing, yet foreboding

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      Quote Originally Posted by ExoByte View Post
      http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4749224.ece



      I spit my drink out laughing after reading the "still larger" part of the first paragraph. Damn awesome.
      The word 'awesome' comes to mind.

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      OMGZ there going to maek matter anteematter collisions like WARP DRIVE OMG WARP DRIVE WE ALL GONN GET OWND BY THE DOMINION!

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      4 billion, with a final design expected around 2012.
      design expected around 2012.
      around 2012.
      2012.

      OH SHI-

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      Quote Originally Posted by ExoByte View Post
      would be a machine up to 31 miles long, comprising two giant “guns”
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      31 miles long, comprising two giant “guns”
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      two giant “guns”
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      “guns”
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      guns, lots of guns
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      Quote Originally Posted by Omicron View Post
      OH SHI-
      Key words: "final design". It won't be finished in 2012, rather, they will have the blueprints finished in 2012. Then they'll spend something like 12 years building the thing.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Forsaken View Post
      Key words: "final design". It won't be finished in 2012, rather, they will have the blueprints finished in 2012. Then they'll spend something like 12 years building the thing.
      OH THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP

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      Quote Originally Posted by Omicron View Post
      OH SHI-
      OMG. Ditto. Maybe the predictions are off...?
      Tat Tvam Asi.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Forsaken View Post
      Key words: "final design". It won't be finished in 2012, rather, they will have the blueprints finished in 2012. Then they'll spend something like 12 years building the thing.
      Ah. It is good to have all of the information.
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      All this just goes to show that the vast majority of scientific investigation consists of smashing things together to see what happens, or what is inside. This dates back to the ground breaking experiments of smashing a piece of iron on a rock to create a spark and smashing a rock on another rock to find a geode inside.

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      £4 billion, just so some eggheads can jerk off? Seriously?

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      Quote Originally Posted by Omicron View Post
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      lol
      Question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
      Answer: Neither, single-celled organisms did.

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      Quote Originally Posted by The Enterer View Post
      £4 billion, just so some eggheads can jerk off? Seriously?
      Thats nothing in the grand scheme of things. England alone spends £1 billion on just cosmetic products every year. The oil tycoon turned renewable energy invester, T. Boone Pickens, is preparing to spend 12 billion USD just on one wind turbine farm. Big progress has a big price tag, at least compared to an individual's standards. £4 billion is pennies on the global scale, which is where the LHC sits.

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      Yeh, the 4 billion they get for the construction anyway is handled by scraping for money. Think about the fusion plant project going on in France right now. I think it was about 10 billion they needed, they said they would need global funding for it.
      Question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
      Answer: Neither, single-celled organisms did.

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      Personally, I couldn't care less about the machine. I'd rather spend the money on something useful rather than potentially destroying the world. Call me stupid that way :/
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      Quote Originally Posted by The Enterer View Post
      £4 billion, just so some eggheads can jerk off? Seriously?
      I wouldn't be surprised if some scientists are turned on by particle physics.

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      Personally, I couldn't care less about the machine. I'd rather spend the money on something useful rather than potentially destroying the world. Call me stupid that way :/
      You're stupid.

      Science espically quantum mechanics has produced alot of things that you use everyday. Who knows what the LHC or the ILC will produce. Also, I think particle physicist don't won't to destroy the world, they know what their doing.

      I wouldn't be surprised if some scientists are turned on by particle physics.
      I guess if you have no girlfriend and our anti-social, then yes you would. Saying that the machine is built by engineers. Only about 1.4&#37; of the staff at LHC facillity are particle physicists. Ironically, there are proberly about zero mathmaticians at CERN.
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      The planet Earth exhibits all of these properties and therefore can be considered alive and its own single organism by the scientific definition.
      7. Reproduction: The ability to produce new organisms.
      does the planet Earth reproduce, well no unless you count the moon.

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      lol at Wendy calling someone stupid

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      Scientists: Relax, relax, theres nothing that can possibly go wrong...

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      Question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
      Answer: Neither, single-celled organisms did.

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      4 years for the drawing up of plans? Are they kidding? 12 Goddamn years to build this thing? Jesus Christ these bastards are slow.
      Things are not as they seem

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      Quote Originally Posted by Jeff777 View Post
      4 years for the drawing up of plans? Are they kidding? 12 Goddamn years to build this thing? Jesus Christ these bastards are slow.
      12 years to build was purely a guess on my part, based on how long it took to get the LHC finished.

      The LHC was cleared for construction in 1995, and construction didn't actually begin until 1998, and was completed 10 years later obviously. The LHC project reused a preexisting 27km tunnel from an earlier project however, and that tunnel took 5 years to construct from 1983 to 1988, so really, 15 years of construction have gone into all that makes the LHC.

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      And add to the fact that they're probably going to have to go at least 50+ yards deeper than the LHC is, due to the size/much higher radiation emission/explosive potential if a magnet fails.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Xaqaria View Post
      Thats nothing in the grand scheme of things. England alone spends £1 billion on just cosmetic products every year. The oil tycoon turned renewable energy invester, T. Boone Pickens, is preparing to spend 12 billion USD just on one wind turbine farm. Big progress has a big price tag, at least compared to an individual\'s standards. £4 billion is pennies on the global scale, which is where the LHC sits.
      Bitches got to look good.

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