CERN worked!
 

CERN just finished it's first full test this morning! A Success!
Was anyone else here as excited about this as i was? Woot! Three cheers for the scientists and engineers of the world, and the governments of europe for funding such an important project!

*tips his hat*

-uIX

Particle accelerators worked way back in the 30s also, why not now? Important? For what?

I'm excited to start seeing some results in regards to higgs bosom or string theory. But I don't think they'll find anything personally, which would be far more interesting anyway.

I thought today was only one beam? I was under the impression that the full dual-beam particle booms wont begin for a few more weeks yet.

Also, I heard Valve sent one of the scientists a head crab and a crowbar since he looked like Gordan Freeman! Hehe, legends.

[because they are trying to simulate big bang

Yes, that's a big step forward, they are working on it since years :)
But I'm a bit worried about consequences of a failure...they talked about a little black hole :oh:

If I'm not wrong they are going to try the Big Bang experiment near 21st of October.

there have been millions(exaggerating) of microscopic black holes being made in laboratoriums before

and from what i understood, it all started, they're just expecting results later

Cern
 

The particle accelerators of the 30's? lol, that's like saying a race car made in the 30's would compete w/ a modern day F-1 racer. This is the largest machine ever built by mankind. Electromagnets 7 stories tall. 27 miles of tunnels. Huge mainframes to control it all. Equipment placed within a precision of 10 nanometers or less. The technology of the 30's cannot compare to such an advanced piece of machinery.

And yes, today was just a test run - only one direction. but it worked flawlessly, and obviously that's a great start.

The black hole stuff is absurd - even the man who came up w/ the idea says the odds are 1 in 50,000,000,000 and the even he's not losing any sleep over it.

'Sides, even if it does happen, Hawking's theories on black hole decay say that micro black holes would decay withing microseconds, leaving no time for anything "bad" to happen.

@Lozzenger2 i laughed my ass off at the gordon freeman comment! :laugh:

-uIX

Let us have no fear. I seen G-man. In case, combine will brake through, he'll keep Mr. Freeman long enough to help us.

Also washing machines made in the 30's would not compete with nowadays ones, but no one seem very excited about that...
(Really, I don't know why I'm making this comment :wacko:)

Uhmmm... I'm quite sure that Big Bang was not made using a particle accelerator...