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Scientists have launched the world's largest physics experiment in an attempt to unlock some of the secrets of the universe. How important is it to carry out these experiments?

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[Poum_1936]

So the first protons made a full revolution today in the 17 mile long LHC. Actual proton colliding begins October 21st.


The first beam was circulated through the collider on the morning of 10 September 2008.[17] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#cite_note-16) CERN successfully fired the protons around the tunnel in stages, three kilometres at a time. The particles were fired in a clockwise direction into the accelerator and successfully steered around it at 10:28 am local time.[18] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#cite_note-17) The LHC successfully completed its first major test: after a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen showing the protons traveled the full length of the collider. It took less than one hour to guide the stream of particles around its inaugural circuit.[19] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#cite_note-18) CERN next successfully sent a beam of protons in a counterclockwise direction.

-WikipediaWhat does everyone think of the LHC project?

[mikelepore]

Scientific projects don't really cost much compared to national efforts that we know are purely waste, such as accumulating weapons and making war. Scientific projects give people around the world opportunities to get some practice cooperating as fellow human beings, instead of competing as representatives of nations. Later there will be material practical benefits, unknowable to us, inventions that people decades in the future will enjoy because of earlier research. If people are ever going to have low temperature fusion reactors, it will only be after learning more about subatomic interactions. Then there is simple curiosity -- I want to know for myself if they can find the Higgs boson or the graviton.

[Red Anarchist of Love]

while people are hungry and homeless. we sould wait to pruse such sientific experiments until there is a major reditrubution of the wealth

[piet11111]

while people are hungry and homeless. we sould wait to pruse such sientific experiments until there is a major reditrubution of the wealth

with that sort of thinking we would abandon all progress.

and it is because of scientific progress we are now capable to actually succeed in feeding and sheltering all of mankind if we where not controlled by the capitalist system.

[BOZG]

while people are hungry and homeless. we sould wait to pruse such sientific experiments until there is a major reditrubution of the wealth

A major redistribution of wealth and the ending of poverty and homeless is only possible on the basis of a socialist revolution, something which would free up the potentially available resources of this world for both. It's not a question of cutting one until we solve the other.

[BOZG]

Anyway, some LHC comedy:

Large Hardon Collider (http://largehardoncollider.com)
Has the LHC destroyed the earth? (http://hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com)
LHC Rap (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM)
The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely To End The World (http://www.cracked.com/article_16583_5-scientific-experiments-most-likely-end-world.html)
To ease concerns about the potential creation of blackholes/parallel universes, CERN employs security personnel to protect us against potential alien invaders (http://i38.tinypic.com/2q37yh5.jpg)

[Poum_1936]

The last link is priceless. I was making a crack about Gordon Freeman and the Black Mesa incident last night. And my friend sent me that link.

[BOZG]

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/09/squirrel-smasher.html

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

So the first protons made a full revolution today in the 17 mile long LHC. Actual proton colliding begins October 21st.

You know, before I read this I never thought that collider experiments would take so long. My impression was that accelerators consumed a fuckload of power but didn't take much longer than a day.


What does everyone think of the LHC project?They should have built the SSC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Supercollider) instead.

Fucking Congress. :cursing: