The Earth has been destroyed.

[ajtribick]

According to the International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board (which has an official-sounding title, so must be truthful):

Evidence is still being collated, but preliminary results suggest that the Earth was destroyed pre-emptively by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, before the commencement of their experiments to locate the Higgs Boson, as a precautionary measure to ensure that the experiment itself could not result in the destruction of the Earth.

[Don. Edwards]

Don. Edwards

[Fightspit]

[Guckytos]

So, this is the life AFTER death

Well, not much difference to before

[Scytale]

In a related subject, a question for the physicist(s) lurking around: why doesn't LHC use higher-temperature superconductive magnets, for instance something above the boiling point of N2? The accelerator would've been a lot cheaper, I think.

[selden]

The high temperature superconductors that I'm aware of cannot handle high current densities, are available only in very small quantities and are extremely brittle.

[ajtribick]

Thanks to the Bad Astronomer, I found the LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams... we're all doomed!

[LordFerret]

That's excellent!

[t00fri]

Thanks to the Bad Astronomer, I found the LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams... we're all doomed!

This black-hole business really ceases to be funny, meanwhile. A colleague of mine who wrote one of the first papers about the possible production of mini-black holes at the LHC, told me yesterday that he's completely saturated with report writing about this because there are a number of accusations that have been brought to various courts meanwhile!

Because of the damage that occured after a few hours of operation, the LHC is out of action until next spring as it seems (unfortunately)...

Fridger

[rthorvald]

Thanks to the Bad Astronomer, I found the LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams... we're all doomed!

Wow! I wish the same thing could happen to the mess my gf just left in our kitchen...

-rthorvald

[t00fri]

Turn your volume up and enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

Physicists are coooool

Fridger

[BobHegwood]

Turn your volume up and enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

Physicists are coooool

Fridger

Very, very cool...
These are the kinds of pages you need to send us Brain-Dead types to in order to
learn some more of the intricacies of physics as a whole.

Thanks very much for the link Good Doctor. Like I said... Very cool.

[Fenerit]

Well, now WE KNOW the cause of LHC's damage...

[LordFerret]

Heh heh... that was great! Thanks Fridger, nice find!

[t00fri]

Heh heh... that was great! Thanks Fridger, nice find!

This was NOT a "find". That's what we all play during working hours...

Fridger

[Fenerit]

I believed that physicist would play Heavy Metal...

[Hungry4info]

I believed that physicist would play Heavy Metal...

I think I get it, metal... like... a type of element

[Fenerit]

I believed that physicist would play Heavy Metal...

I think I get it, metal... like... a type of element

Well, a band called The Megathorium, with the hit song "Loud than ion"...

[bdm]

Thus we have proof of Last Thursdayism theology.

[Fenerit]

Thus we have proof of Last Thursdayism theology.

As the Last Fridayism theology, we have The Dark Bosons Band with the concept album "Fermions in Hell"