Pat Dollard

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Or something like that. That’s what some guys are saying.

Who are these guys?

WTF are they talking about? HOLY SHIT UPDATE AT BOTTOM…

Will we be here tomorrow? Don’t answer that with a yes, you don’t know that for sure.

But seriously, there’s some kind of experiment going to take place tomorrow morning underground on the border of France and Switzerland and they’re going to smash atoms together in some way, or some , something we can’t see but is supposed to be happening, something they have never done before, or some . All I want to know is:

1. Do you scientists really know what the you’re doing?

and

2. Will this remove our dependency on foreign oil?

I’m not very science-minded, I’m more right-brained and tend to lean toward the arts, and I like the suspenseful, the surreal, and the terrifying. Some of this “experimentation” that’s going on tomorrow is trying to recreate the “Big Bang” theory and in case you don’t know where I stand on that it’s simple.

I believe in the Big Bang Theory: Genesis 1:3 “God said, ‘Let there be light.’ And (BANG) there was light.”

That’s how I see it.

Below is a diagram of what’s supposed to happen, it may not reproduce here quite as good, so you may want to check the link to the site I’ve provided.

Some people actually believe that this experiment that will be conducted tomorrow could create a black hole that will swallow the earth.

What do you think about that? From The Evening Standard:

Scientists are today preparing to switch on the world’s biggest scientific experiment.

The £5billion Large Hadron Collider aims to recreate the conditions moments after the Big Bang that created the universe.

To do this, a massive 27km tunnel has been constructed under countryside in France and Switzerland near Geneva, which will be used to smash protons together at 99.99 per cent of the speed of light.

Tomorrow morning, it will be switched on and the first attempt to send the particle beam around its entire 27km length will be made.

Experts say the LHC is probably the most complex and challenging scientific endeavour since the Apollo programme put astronauts on the moon.

“This is an incredibly exciting time for physics,” said Professor Nick Evans of Southampton University.

“The LHC will help scientists to unlock the secrets of our Universe.

“The great thing about this experiment is that we know we must find something new because our current theories don’t explain what will happen at LHC. We have some guesses which may or may not be right, but whatever the results, the LHC will herald a new age in our understanding of physics.”

The discoveries made by the LHC could also lead to practical applications, it is hoped.

Major spin-offs have already emerged from earlier particle accelerator experiments at CERN, the European nuclear research organisation based in Geneva where the LHC is housed.

It is credited with pioneering radiotherapy machines and even the world wide web. One of the aims of the LHC is to hunt for the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle”.

The Higgs is said to be the so-far undetected key to mass. If scientists can prove its existence, it could pave the way for manipulating the gravity which exists in all mass – rather like Star Trek “tractor” beams.

Professor Brian Cox, from the University of Manchester, is one of the LHC scientists and also played keyboard with pop band D:Ream. He admitted to having received death threats from opponents of the LHC, who claim it could create black holes which could swallow the Earth.

Scientists dismiss such fears as nonsense. “At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable,” he said.

“None of these big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.”

(Evening Standard)

HOLY SHIT UPDATE:

Um, I found this little link on the page I got this article from and it is called “Key Collider Facts“…

Here they are:

• The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest machine ever built. Its circumference of 26,659 metres (16 miles, 994 yards) makes it longer than the 14-mile Circle line. It straddles Switzerland and France.

• When the 27km long circular tunnel at CERN was excavated, between Lake Geneva and the Jura mountain range, the two ends met up with just one centimetre of error.

• The tunnel has its own fire brigade. They are trained in abseiling techniques as well as dealing with chemical and radiation hazards.

• At full power, trillions of protons will race around the LHC accelerator ring 11,245 times a second, travelling at 99.999 per cent of the speed of light. Six hundred million collisions will take place every second as the protons smash into each other.

• When two beams of protons collide, they will generate temperatures more than 100,000 times hotter than the heart of the sun.

• At the centre of the accelerator is a vacuum as empty as interplanetary space in which the proton beams travel. The internal pressure of the LHC is 10-13 atm, 10 times less than the pressure on the moon.

• Movement is governed by 9,300 ultra-powerful magnets which work at temperatures so cold no life could exist. They are precooled to minus 193.2C using 10,080 tonnes of liquid nitrogen, before they are filled with nearly 60 tonnes of liquid helium to bring them down to minus 271.3C.

• Each proton moves at such speed that it contains the equivalent energy of a family car travelling at 1,056mph.

• The collisions are designed to produce particles whose existence has so far only been theorised about, including the Higgs boson, the main focus of its search, which was first postulated in 1964 and has been dubbed the “God particle”.

• Other products of the collisions could include extra dimensions, “strangelets”, which may or may not exist, and micro black holes, the objects at the centre of fears the accelerator could end the world.

• The accelerator is powered by a vast amount of electricity, with the magnets connected by superconductors. The cable they use would stretch round the equator 6.8 times.

• The data recorded by each of the big experiments at the LHC will fill 100,000 DVDs every year.

• CERN, which runs the accelerator, estimates that one per cent of data recorded will be useful.

This one in particular, has me a little concerned:

When two beams of protons collide, they will generate temperatures more than 100,000 times hotter than the heart of the sun.

Anybody know what time they’re flipping the switches on this thing? Funnily enough I just keep imagining it as the “Don’t Push This Button” button on the Mothership, or something, heh heh…that was a nervous “heh heh”…