Hadron Collider Back On!

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Posted by myfairlady Promoted 80 days 12 hours ago 1139 views

Technology / General Tech | 3 comments |

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Particle beams are once again zooming around the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider -- located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. On November 20 at 4:00 p.m. EST, a clockwise circulating beam was established in the LHC's 17-mile ring.

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quincy0191, on 11/21/2009 2:04:22 PM
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WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

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lolfighter, on 11/21/2009 6:44:49 PM
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It is actually possible that the LHC will kill us all - but not directly. However, the knowledge we glean from it could end up proving terribly dangerous. If we had no understanding of nuclear fission we would not today have enough nukes to wipe ourselves out. Who knows what new Pandora's Box the LHC might eventually allow us to build?

Still, gaining an ever greater understanding of our universe is a bit too tempting to just huddle together in fear until the sun burns out.

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quincy0191, on 11/21/2009 6:58:00 PM
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lolfighter wrote:
It is actually possible that the LHC will kill us all - but not directly. However, the knowledge we glean from it could end up proving terribly dangerous. If we had no understanding of nuclear fission we would not today have enough nukes to wipe ourselves out. Who knows what new Pandora's Box the LHC might eventually allow us to build?

Still, gaining an ever greater understanding of our universe is a bit too tempting to just huddle together in fear until the sun burns out.

On the other hand, maybe the LHC leads to theories and ideas that will bring us all together and solve all our problems. Technology in and of itself is neither evil nor good, it's what you do with it, and we've used technology to build much more than destroy. And despite the fact that quite a few nations have the nuclear capability to obliterate every square inch of the planet, we still haven't done it.

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