Morgan BellThe Large Hadron Collider
September 22nd 2008 01:45
Those of you that are terrified that the Large Hadron Collider might create a black hole, sucking all of humanity into one-dimensional strands of matter spaghetti - feel temporarily relieved. The LHC is broken.
Them blokes at the BBC prefer to say it in their fancy book-learnin' way: "The Large Hadron Collider forced to halt"
They call it a quench, which isn't nearly as refreshing as quenching your thirst with Gatorade. From the article:
"The failure, known as a quench, caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100C.
The fire brigade were called out after a tonne of liquid helium leaked into the tunnel at Cern, near Geneva. "
The fire brigade were called out after a tonne of liquid helium leaked into the tunnel at Cern, near Geneva. "
My immediate response was: just put ice on it. I remember once, I had a cousin that had a fever of over 100 degrees. His maw just put a bag of ice on his forehead and he was up and running around within no time.
But a tonne of helium? That's crazy! Where did it go?
Wikipedia tells me that Helium is the stuff that makes your voice sound high-pitched when you inhale it from a balloon, and that it can be dangerous to inhale.
"Inhaling helium can be dangerous if done to excess, since helium is a simple asphyxiant and so displaces oxygen needed for normal respiration.[2][91] Breathing pure helium continuously causes death by asphyxiation within minutes. "
But the scientists don't care about that - preferring to concentrate on creating the black hole that will destroy the Earth.
I've said it many times before, but the government needs to crack down on these particle-smashing, stem-cell harvesting, GMO-creating mavericks.
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Comment by Ash
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HAHAHAHA! Funny read - they should put a whole lot of ice on it... permanently!
I for one am quite happy to hear it broke down - and I hope it keeps breaking down! These fools shouldn`t be able to go around 'trialling' these sorts of things whilst putting the rest of us at risk over it.
I have to agree, governments should be putting a stop to this!
ash
Comment by Cibbuano
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Putting us at risk? What risk?
Comment by Damo
Now we may never know if they can destroy the world.