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When I work with software all day long, I sometimes forget that there are seriously cool and amazing things in the world that people build, like hadron colliders.
When I work with software all day long, I sometimes forget that there are seriously cool and amazing things in the world that people build, like hadron colliders.
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Recently watched the "Big Bang Machine" documentary detailing this beast and it's construction; truly an amazing feat!
This should be on DiscoveryHD's mega projects – maybe it already is. The comments on the website are crazy:
"They hope that if a black hole happens then it will be traveling so fast that it will be in deep space before it can cause harm to us, that theory is ok if it travels through the shortest distance of the ground and into space.
But what if it travels deep into the earth and through the core before going deep space , remember these guys have no control over the result of running the collider and anything they create , Frankenstein springs to mind lol looks like we are all about to go on a one way trip."
The scale is obviously visually impressive, but when you pause to consider the scope of planning and project management required to pull this off, it makes many software projects seem a trifle picayune.
You should see the youtube interviews with some of the scientists.. pretty eerie..
Funny enough this is happening at the same place where the web was born (http://www.cern.ch). Just imagine what kind of computing and network infrastructure is needed to deal with the data produced by the LHC.
I'm hoping it sparks an alternative "Hitchhiker's Guide" type reality with lots of British potty humor and general juvenile silliness.
It's the Flux Capacitor in beta stages before the Doc shrunk it down to Delorean size and powered it with trash.
I'm truly in awe of CERN as an organization and the massive scale of this experiment. And, even more amazed when I realize that the direction of particle physics for the next several decade will be determined by the outcome of this experiment.
Looks like September 10 will be the day. Included will be a LIVE! webcast
Check out the CERN website
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Rele...
the device has the theoretical possibility of sparking a black hole. when they fire it up, our solar system (galaxy?) may be no more
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