LHCNews Nov 12, 2009 - Protons are back in the LHC!

After more than a year, protons were injected into the LHC...

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Science & Technology

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• CERN
• LHC
• Large
• hadron
• collider
• proton
• particle
• physics
• cms
• atlas
• science

[Hornet85]

If its not for science, people wouldn't be able to preach online today, heh.

[chrmats4]

Yeah, keep praying against human evolution and technology that WILL one day help us all in many ways.

Good thinking, way to go.

[patterncuber11]

*%&@! i don`t wanna live only 11 or 12 year`s old.

[MotherFuckerMike]

Welcome back, Protons! =D

We missed you! ♥♪♫

[sbergman27]

@mikeroephonics: Stephen Hawking has said that he doesn't think the LHC will find it, and that not finding it would be far more interesting. Steven Weinberg has said on several occasions that he is "terrified" that the LHC will find the Higgs Boson... but nothing much else of interest, leaving us with the question of "What now?".

We desperately need some physical hints to complete one of our beautiful GUT theories and bring it into the realm of real science, with testable predictions.

[mikeroephonics]

The ironic thing is Peter Higgs called it the "goddamned particle" but was advised to shorten it to the "God Particle." There's a video of him in an interview discussing this, on YT.

Regarding the Higgs Boson (as it should be called), even if they do not find it, that just means they need to think differently about something in their equations. NOT finding it would be almost as interesting (though probably not as exciting as finding it.)

[sbergman27]

@mikeroephonics Lately, I've been considering the inaccurate names common in science. At best, they get people off on the wrong foot, as the name "Bing Bang" does. At worst they are megnets for Religious Wackos, like "God Particle". The "Big Bang" is fundamentally about spatial expansion, not an explosion. But most lay people think "explosion". And "God Particle" gets people thinking who knows what. Public science education would benefit greeatly from a "spring cleaning" of its jargon.

[mikeroephonics]

@Manewalis Care to release your proof to the scientific community as to why this is the case? We're anxiously waiting to hear your ideas.

[random36745]

i know i only have very very basic knowledge of physics and the LHC, buttttt would there be any possibility, that if nuclear atoms or nucleus's (whatever i have no idea) nuclear fusion might possibly take place

[Xoxocube]

What ever happens, im excited about the LHC. Been following it for years. It would be nice to see something we didn't expect.

[importfilta]

haha so true never thought about it that way. Give me all your shit and then go rely on god. HA! Love it!