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Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
 
Don't say you weren't warned.

So I attended a seminar on the new physics possibilities at CERN, whose new collider will have beam (they claim!) late this year. The presenter spent about twenty minutes going through various New Physics scenarios that are considered likely enough to be worth taking into account when building the detectors, and then he comes to his section on "The Large Hadron Collider at CERN", dealing with the actual construction. And he has mis-spelled 'Hadron' in the obvious way.

It was the most interesting moment of the whole seminar.


 

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Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 
I don't wanna know about *that* kind of a collision!!!! ROFL!
 

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Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :
 

 

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Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
 
Funny.

CERN scares me. Something about a bunch of people colliding sub atomic particles together at very fast speeds, "just to see what happens".
 

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Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
 
"Yes, we're pretty excited by what this baby can do!"
 

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Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
 
Is that a beam, or are your electrons just excited to see me?
 

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Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
 
Maybe it's because I'm not a sophomore, but I'm not seeing the funny.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Transposed "r" and "d."

Or did you mean that you don't think it actually was funny? Because in that case I'd agree with you. But he did warn us.
 

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Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
 

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Originally posted by Stephan:
Funny.

CERN scares me. Something about a bunch of people colliding sub atomic particles together at very fast speeds, "just to see what happens".

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I particularly like when they come out and say "we're going to conduct a test that *might* create a black hole that *might* suck in all the matter on Earth and *might* kill us all... but not likely... Fire at will!"

Yes, they pretty much say it that way. I've seen those kind of reports on CNN.
 

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Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
 
Ahh. My mind was putting the stress on the wrong syllable so I wasn't "hearing" it.

Thanks.
 

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Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
 
You didn't even have to spell it wrong, it was the first thing I though of. There's a LOT of that type of humor in my circle of friends
 

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Posted by tt&t (Member # 5600) on :
 
kehehehe
 

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Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
 
The presenter was just being honest: it's always been about whose collider is bigger.

[ March 16, 2007, 08:38 AM: Message edited by: aspectre ]
 

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Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
 

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Originally posted by Nighthawk:

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Originally posted by Stephan:
Funny.

CERN scares me. Something about a bunch of people colliding sub atomic particles together at very fast speeds, "just to see what happens".

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I particularly like when they come out and say "we're going to conduct a test that *might* create a black hole that *might* suck in all the matter on Earth and *might* kill us all... but not likely... Fire at will!"

Yes, they pretty much say it that way. I've seen those kind of reports on CNN.

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