New collider at CERN -learn! Howstuffworks

[cccamper]

http://science.howstuffworks.com/large- ... lider.htm#

this is pretty good. my one brother goes to CERN often for meetings/papers,etc and has been excited about this for years...

now that it is going into action some mouth it as a comic-book Evil.


As Alton Brown says "SCIENCE, It's what's for dinner!"
We are science!

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[SuperTroll]

Dat machine is a tool of da DEBIL!.....we'll all be sucked through a Black Hole, and THEN where will we be!? (Well..where WOULD we be...chuckle chuckle).......

Amazes me; the fears of the nay sayers....in Christopher Columbus's day, the fear was falling off the edge of the world......today we're MUCH more technologically savy, so Black Holes are IN.....

[starleen2]

Dat machine is a tool of da DEBIL!.....we'll all be sucked through a Black Hole, and THEN where will we be!? (Well..where WOULD we be...chuckle chuckle).......

Amazes me; the fears of the nay sayers....in Christopher Columbus's day, the fear was falling off the edge of the world......today we're MUCH more technologically savy, so Black Holes are IN.....

So that's where all my money is going - into a black hole - no wait - my camper!

[angib]

What I've never seen explained is why was CERN, and so the new collider too, built across two countries' border? It just seems so unnecessarily complicated. Mark you, it's near Geneva airport which has two different entrances in two different countries, so maybe it's a local tradition.

Andrew

[cccamper]

What I've never seen explained is why was CERN, and so the new collider too, built across two countries' border? It just seems so unnecessarily complicated. Mark you, it's near Geneva airport which has two different entrances in two different countries, so maybe it's a local tradition.

Andrew

Doug spoke about that but don't remember what he said. (and as usual, I have a medical excuse )

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[Bristol Delica]

Andrew

The reason the LHC was built as it has been is that it replaced an existing accelerator on the site and the only way they could lay out fit a 29 kilometre circle on the site was to cross the border into Switzerland.

HTH

IanJ