Sci/Tech Atom smasher achieves 'Big Bang' collisions

[sqrage]

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said it had unleashed the unprecedented bursts of energy on the third attempt, as beams of protons thrust around the 27-kilometre (16.8-mile) accelerator collided at close to the speed of light.

"This is physics in the making, the beginning of a new era, we have collisions at 7 TeV (teralectronvolts)," said Paola Catapano, a CERN scientist and spokeswoman, referring to the record energy levels achieved.

CERN Director General Rolf Heuer could barely contain his excitement by video conference from Japan: "It is a fantastic moment for science."

Within an hour, physicists from dozens of countries around the world were marvelling at their initial observations, rendered graphically as colourful bursts of energy.

Atom smasher achieves 'Big Bang' collisions (Update)

Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher on Tuesday started colliding particles at record energy levels, opening a new era in the quest for the universe's deepest secrets.

phys.org

 

[FireCat]

"It is a fantastic moment for science."

What's so fantastic about the "Big Bang"?

 

[13lade619]

closer and closer to making a mini-black hole.. however non/destructive it is..

 

[Cornface]

What's so fantastic about the "Big Bang"?

It was the creation of time and space and everything between it as we know it?

If you don't find that fantastic, then you are a ignorant person.

 

[FireCat]

closer and closer to making a mini-black hole

Oh. that BIG BANG hmm

If you don't find that fantastic, then you are a ignorant person.

Hehehe. It really depends on what happens.
It Could be a nightmare. Right?

 

[Avaleirra]

This is a punch to the face for Christians.

 

[Durandal]

How so?

Christians believe God made the universe, but that doesn't mean he didn't make it via the Big Bang

 

[Romek]

> Christians believe God made the universe, but that doesn't mean he didn't make it via the Big Bang
Christians believe it happened in the way described in the Old Testament. So yes, it is like a punch in the face for them (assuming this even proves the big bang).

 

[SineCosine]

I remember this website that was carefully designed to try and explain Christianity through science.. -___-
I read about 20+ or their overly long articles.

It's total pseudo-logic, if I ever find the site again, I'll let everyone here know.

I don't see how crashing particles will create a black hole.
Who made that up? o.0

All it does is create conditions ALMOST as they were in the Big Bang.
I do not recall a black hole during the first few planckseconds of the Universe's brith o.0

Only lots and lots of energy and it's anti-version.. hmm..

*Does google search*

 

[monoVertex]

Beware of this link. You shall be amazed

 

[Durandal]

but that doesn't mean he didn't make it via the Big Bang

I didn't say that was fact, I said he COULD HAVE xD

 

[Jedimindtrixxx]

theres a really cool video that shows how it works
[youtube]qQNpucos9wc[/youtube]

this thing is really cool other than the possibility of destroying our world. There was an article i read that said whe nyou get sucked into a black hole, time slows down, and you can feel every single atom in ur body being slowly destroyed by the immense gravitational pull of a blackhole. So this will be a very very painful death.

 

[sqrage]

theres a really cool video that shows how it works
[youtube]qQNpucos9wc[/youtube]

this thing is really cool other than the possibility of destroying our world. There was an article i read that said whe nyou get sucked into a black hole, time slows down, and you can feel every single atom in ur body being slowly destroyed by the immense gravitational pull of a blackhole. So this will be a very very painful death.

It can't and wont destroy our world... We don't have nearly the technology needed to collide particles as such speeds to create a blackhole, and we wont for centuries, if ever.

There's obviously no way you would feel every atom in your body being pulled away... Atoms don't consist of neural receptors, they compose them. And there are probably a trillion times more atoms in your body than there are neural receptors and once one atom would be pulled off, that receptor would instantly stop functioning. Not to mention the nervous system is not that delicate, the loss of an atom would not meet a neuron's absolute threshold.

 

[Lyerae]

This is a punch to the face for Christians.

More like a bitch-slap to the face of (almost) all religions.

Beware of this link. You shall be amazed

:thup:

 

[Vestras]

I'm just thinking... how much electricity we could've gotten out of that collision :O Think about it... like power enough for the whole world for 20 years? Well, I don't know anything about these things, but I'm just thinking that since they produce that much volt...

 

[FireCat]

Someone looking forward to being sucked into the black hole?

I'm just thinking... how much electricity we could've gotten out of that collision :O Think about it... like power enough for the whole world for 20 years? Well, I don't know anything about these things, but I'm just thinking that since they produce that much volt...

That would be awesome! Otherwise it's pointless and waste of money!

 

[SerraAvenger]

[...]Christians believe it happened in the way described in the Old Testament. [...](assuming this even proves the big bang).

They do? Heck, I didn't know that oO
I accounted myself as a christian for a long time, at least until I had to neglect Jesus being the sole son of god and particularly extraordinary in any way other than explaining what life/love/god is.

On a slightly related note, "to prove something" is one of the most common phrases that give the least sense, given the only thing that's provable is a couple of rules in mathematics. And we can only prove those because we defined a couple of rules, and all other rules we prove lateron are but products of those very same axioms (no pun intended).

@anyone REALLY believing in the big bad black hole created with merely 7 TeV:
1 eV = 1.602176487(40)×10-19 J
1 TeV = 1 eV = 1.602176487(40)×10-7 J
...
Please, if anyone tells me that's enough mass to create a world-gorging black hole, I'll hang myself. Well, not literaly.
BTW: Wikipedia says 7 TeV is about the kinetic energy of 7 flying mosquitos =D
@Think about it... like power enough for the whole world for 20 years?
FUCKING 7 FLYING MOSQUITOS, alright?^^

@TAS
Whoever wrote that article seems to have no/little knowledge about our current physical & biological theories.
When your time slows down, you won't notice since your time is slowing down. Awesome, alright? Btw, your time will be slowing down infinitely so you'll actually never reach the singularity.
Atoms won't be "destroyed" by the gravitational pull of anything oO They will only be stretched.
+what sqrage said.

What's funny though is when some of your atoms are more "slowed down" and "stretched" than others. I think it's a very tasty way to die.

Oh, by the way:
Did you look at the comments on the "hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com" page? I had it as my browser's homepage for half a year^^

Here, for all your lazyards who don't even look at wikipedia before writing "omgzors ze lak hardon collidre wil destroi ze worldzorz!"
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[sqrage]

I'm just thinking... how much electricity we could've gotten out of that collision :O Think about it... like power enough for the whole world for 20 years? Well, I don't know anything about these things, but I'm just thinking that since they produce that much volt...

I'm sure it doesn't output much more electricity than is needed to trigger the collision.

 

[uberfoop]

I'm just thinking... how much electricity we could've gotten out of that collision :O Think about it... like power enough for the whole world for 20 years? Well, I don't know anything about these things, but I'm just thinking that since they produce that much volt...

It's electron-volts, not volts. Volts aren't a unit of energy anyway. If you have an electron sitting in an electric field, and it moves from a spot where the electrical potential is 1 volt to a spot where the electrical potential is 2 volts, the electron goes through a potential energy change of 1 electron volt.

To put it into perspective, though, let's say you have a space heater that operates on 1 kilowatt (a common medium space heater setting). Let's say that you know of some event that generates 7 TeV. It would take about 3,300,000,000,000 of these events to power that heater for an hour.

 

[Samael88]

Woah, imagine to do that to a hamster That would really be something amazing

It would go like:
And then it would sound like: Iiiiiiiii...
And we would like: WTFZOMG
And then it would cause a huge explosion and destroy the world...
Then I would say "Ha, I knew the little bastards would be the cause of it"