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Points: 20030 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 09:29
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Sounds exciting:

Originally posted by BBC BBC wrote:

The beam completed its first circuit of the underground tunnel at just before 0930 BST.


I wonder if they waved as it went past

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"There it is," project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap


Well as far as great scientific quotes of our age go, I think that one lacks a certain gravitas...
Seeing as these particles are travelling at almost the speed of light and doing 11,000 laps per second, he couldn't possibly have said "there it is" at the end of the first lap as it would surely have have done about 20,000 laps while he said it.
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Points: 1065 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 11:17
Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

LOL ^ Ha!
 
How about "Do it in the dork -- make love to a physicist" ? Ermm
 
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Honestly... don't tempt me!! Embarrassed LOL
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Points: 19236 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 11:22
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Sounds exciting:

Originally posted by BBC BBC wrote:

The beam completed its first circuit of the underground tunnel at just before 0930 BST.


I wonder if they waved as it went past

Originally posted by BBC BBC wrote:

"There it is," project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap


Well as far as great scientific quotes of our age go, I think that one lacks a certain gravitas...
Seeing as these particles are travelling at almost the speed of light and doing 11,000 laps per second, he couldn't possibly have said "there it is" at the end of the first lap as it would surely have have done about 20,000 laps while he said it.


With all these laps, it sounds suspiciously like a NASCAR race.
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 11:28
As I posted elsewhere, the high energy collision experiments are scheduled for later in the year.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 11:37
^ and the real experiments don't begin until 2010
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 12:16
+++sigh+++

So when exactly does the world implode?


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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 12:25
Ah - that's what I love about the shed - in 4 pages we've gone from complaining about the rain to discussing womens' fascination with shoes to the complete destruction of earth...

...and still managed a couple of nob-jokes courtesy of Derek & Clive

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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 12:29
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

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So when exactly does the world implode?

That's the beauty of quantum mechanics - it already has. LOL
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 12:32
Originally posted by crimhead crimhead wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Sounds exciting:

Originally posted by BBC BBC wrote:

The beam completed its first circuit of the underground tunnel at just before 0930 BST.


I wonder if they waved as it went past

Originally posted by BBC BBC wrote:

"There it is," project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap


Well as far as great scientific quotes of our age go, I think that one lacks a certain gravitas...
Seeing as these particles are travelling at almost the speed of light and doing 11,000 laps per second, he couldn't possibly have said "there it is" at the end of the first lap as it would surely have have done about 20,000 laps while he said it.


With all these laps, it sounds suspiciously like a NASCAR race.

Cant be, theres a distinct lack of cheating here.Wink
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 12:59
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

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So when exactly does the world implode?



When the Jonas Brothers are approved for addition to progarchives?
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5 billion pounds, 15 years of work by 10,000 scientists, a tiny blip on a screen for a millisecond -
 
..REALLY..?
 
i bet they're all having a jolly good laugh - what games will the geeks get up to next..? Ermm
 
 


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Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

5 billion pounds, 15 years of work by 10,000 scientists, a tiny blip on a screen for a millisecond -
 
..REALLY..?
 
i bet they're all having a jolly good laugh - what games will the geeks get up to next..? Ermm
 
 


that's what you get for protons you can't even see in the air...flashing! Wink

(uhm, guys, I'm turning 19 in two weeks...is it a good age to join The Shed? Tongue)


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A times Vic, I think you are older than all of us.
 
 
 
 
 
...then there are other times Tongue
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I've long started taking anti-Velvet medication for those other times...Tongue
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Points: 2696 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 15:07
19 eh?
 
just saying that makes us shed dwellers snarl, yikes, we can't even REMEMBER 19!!!!
 
 
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 15:10
maybe because it was no fun being 19...

can't guarantee my 19th will be fun, though I still have to find out...but I bet 18 will turn out better than 19
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 16:03
Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

5 billion pounds, 15 years of work by 10,000 scientists, a tiny blip on a screen for a millisecond -
 
..REALLY..?
 
i bet they're all having a jolly good laugh - what games will the geeks get up to next..? Ermm
 
 


that's what you get for protons you can't even see in the air...flashing! Wink

(uhm, guys, I'm turning 19 in two weeks...is it a good age to join The Shed? Tongue)
 
When I was 19 the Internet hadn't even been thought of. In fact, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine was still beyond the cutting edge - and the teenagers working at Difference Engine World  had some respect for their elders!
 
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Points: 20030 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 17:44
Nurse?
That brings us full circle back to Derek and Clive.
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 17:56
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Nurse?
That brings us full circle back to Derek and Clive.
 
come again?
'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

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Points: 19757 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2008 at 18:03
Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

  In fact, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine was still beyond the cutting edge - and the teenagers working at Difference Engine World  had some respect for their elders!
 
The National Trust own Dudmaston Hall, near Bridgenorth, which was the home of Charles Babbage's In Laws (he managed to marry above his station..) anyway, they have an interesting permanent exhibition on Charles Babbage and his 'Difference Machine'...if anyone cares to visit...Geek
 
btw, Welcome Riccy...Hug...you will quickly notice that 'the Shed' is where us crumblies feel comfortable offering useless, irrelevant 'facts' on subjects which are of interest to no-one except themselves...be they on Charles Babbage, or the whereabouts of Chopper's toe-nail clippings....LOL
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