Last Magnet Lowered Into Largest Atom Smasher

RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
edited May 2007 in A Moving Train
cool pic...

"Researchers hope the collisions of these particles will create rarer, heavier particles that will help solve some of the great mysteries of physics, such as why objects have mass and what the universe was like seconds after the big bang."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070430-collider-magnet.html
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.

http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    Wicked, are you ready to meet the maker?
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Ahnimus wrote:
    Wicked, are you ready to meet the maker?

    Hells yeah! (fingers crossed) :D
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • PJ_SalukiPJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    I am the world's largest atom smasher.
    "Almost all those politicians took money from Enron, and there they are holding hearings. That's like O.J. Simpson getting in the Rae Carruth jury pool." -- Charles Barkley
  • PJ_Saluki wrote:
    I am the world's largest atom smasher.

    you get much gas or bloating from that?
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • You also have to wonder about military implications and stuff like this:

    http://cui.unige.ch/isi/sscr/phys/antim-BPP.html

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/04/MNGM393GPK1.DTL

    "It almost defies belief, the amount of explosive force available in a speck of antimatter -- even a speck that is too small to see. For example: One millionth of a gram of positrons contain as much energy as 37.8 kilograms (83 pounds) of TNT, according to Edwards' March speech. A simple calculation, then, shows that about 50-millionths of a gram could generate a blast equal to the explosion (roughly 4,000 pounds of TNT, according to the FBI) at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995."
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
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