Added: Sep 9, 2008
From: zheth2
Duration: 8:57
The countdown to the startup of the world's most powerful particle collider has begun with today's announcement that the first beam of protons will be sent all the way through the 17-mile-round Large Hadron Collider on Sept. 10. A key phase of the final preparations for the $10 billion project begins this weekend, when Europe's CERN particle-physics center begins testing the last links in the high-powered chain of magnets that will eventually send beams shooting through the collider's ring with the energy of a bullet train. During this weekend's tests, low-intensity protons will be injected into a small section of the collider and zip around one-eighth of the ring. The tests will grow in strength and complexity all the way up to "Red Button Day." If the schedule holds, the collider on the French-Swiss border will make a splash at 9 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET) Sept. 10, a week after a federal judge in Hawaii begins hearing a motion to dismiss a civil lawsuit claiming that the device could destroy the world. Over the past few months, scientists at CERN (and the federal government) have laid out their case that a globe-gobbling catastrophe could never happen. Nevertheless, the court proceedings could provide a sideshow for the main event. Or they could be finished up by that time.
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Tags: asteroids astronauts astronomy bang big black comets cosmology cosmos dark earth energy galaxies gravity holes hubble jupiter mars matter mercury nasa pluto sagan saturn sun universe venus
Rating: 4.59 (17 ratings) Views: 6604' favoriteCount='24 Comments: 25
flickeringember Says:
Sep 11, 2008 - Thats is offensive to me, please don't use god in your comments
MRPSPRYAN Says:
Sep 11, 2008 - Hi CAN ANY ONE TELL ME THE MUSIC THEY USE IN THIS AT 2:11 THE PIANO MUSIC THANKS
BennyboyFUCK8 Says:
Sep 11, 2008 - We Won't Be ucked Up. Thats Inpossible. You Think The Scientists Would Spend 1 Million Pounds To Destroy The Earth?
juss22 Says:
Sep 12, 2008 - God made the earth silly. mayb you should pick up a bible. would be alot easier
LaggForFun Says:
Sep 12, 2008 - I believe god created everything, so im not worried. Im not going to preach to anyone, but im just sayin that in the bible, a black whole sucking everything up is not how the world is "going to end"
minyme01 Says:
Sep 12, 2008 - i do physics and we have no proof other then hawkings theroy (unproven) that the black hole will disipate if it does it will only last about 1 milliounth of a second it it doesnt one of to things will happen it will eaither pass straight thought the earth un effected by our gravity or out gravity will effect it it will get pulled to the centre of the the earth and then devour the core and theEarthFromTheInsideOutItCouldTake5YearsToDestroyTheEarth ButYourMoreLikylyToWinTheLotteryThenGetABlackHole
minyme01 Says:
Sep 12, 2008 - another interesting possibility is that we could produce a strangelet if just one stranglet is created the entire univer will siece to exist with a billienth of a second thats the worst case sanaryio but same as the black hole thery your more likly to win the lottery then this to happen
Oisinericjayat Says:
Sep 13, 2008 - can someone seriousely tell me when the "red button day is?"please
DDieDDes Says:
Sep 13, 2008 - The founder of this machine must be studying his whole life, hes just ginious..
impressivedesigns Says:
Sep 14, 2008 - wasnt it last wed?
impressivedesigns Says:
Sep 14, 2008 - lol
impressivedesigns Says:
Sep 14, 2008 - sorry, I had it wrong it started on wed but i dont know when the red button day is
andolos65 Says:
Sep 14, 2008 - Another slap to Catholic church's and other religions face. Now we can discover the truth without bullshit myths written in Bible, Torat, Koran and other freaking religion books!!!!
Plutonwolf Says:
Sep 15, 2008 - Wouldn't it be a pisser if they announced "After examining all the data, we have determined we are on a giant turtle on the back of a bigger elephant swimming in a sea of beer foam" Sorry, just tired from telling everyone that there will be no world eating black holes. (but I am beginning to hope for one)
artexjohn Says:
Sep 16, 2008 - Why is it a slap in the face on religion?
flashmaster33 Says:
Sep 18, 2008 - this reminds me of that thing from spiderman2 that doctor octavius created i'm i right people
swanseacityrocks Says:
Sep 28, 2008 - this brokedown after in adout 14 days! its going to take 7 months to fix it!
safffffi Says:
Oct 9, 2008 - people cant do big bang ... everything happens by natur way... they will only hurt people with those machines..
residentevl5 Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - its gonna kill us all!!!
bestofthebest121 Says:
Oct 26, 2008 - i dont undersatnd wats big bang??? wats that machine??? im only 12 years old so...
ImageOFlove Says:
Nov 20, 2008 - these guys would be Muslims one day! by this shity malfuntion machine you cant find anything. try hard and i m sure many ppl would start believing in religion the true religion is ISLAM and it explains the creation of universe.
JinkoSmily Says:
Nov 24, 2008 - my theory is that the big bang keeps happening over and over because of us. i dont know how the original big bang happened but i believe that when it did, there was a civilization that over billion of years, evolved and became so advanced that they wanted to prove how things happened like we are trying to. eventually they would build things similar to what were, to prove things. and even if they messed it up they had forever to do it cause time will go on forever.
JinkoSmily Says:
Nov 24, 2008 - even if they dont another civilization that could be on the other side of the universe could be doing the same thing but eventually a civilization smashed those damn little things together and the little big bang was the actual big bang and it pushed their universe out of the way and destroyed them. and this cycle keeps continuing with each new universe that is created where a civilization creates this machine
JinkoSmily Says:
Nov 24, 2008 - but i would laugh really hard if they smashed those things together and a little mini god popped up =P
flickeringember Says:
Sep 11, 2008 - I'm not worried about a black hole that won't happen, and if it does it would disappear in about 2 seconds. I'm worried about the magnetic force of the collision tilting the Earth off its axis and send us farther or closer to the sun. The collision is predicted to have 2 the amount of gravitational force than whats holding us to the sun. This would not be good if it tilted the world and sent us towards the sun. Shouldn't the world consult on this?