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#52 2008-09-13 09:12:28
Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
big-bang wrote:
Today I got a constellation poster assignment in Science-I'm doing Lyra.
Are there any telescope owners on Scratch?
I own two telescopes! One is top-notch and the other is really bad. I'm proud of my telescopes (I am a science geek. I really like astronomy)
Lyra (your constellation) also happens to be a character in a series of books called "his dark materials". The first in that series was "the Golden Compass" (the movie was bad but the book was amazing). Then comes the Subtle Knife and finally the Amber Spyglass. Strangely, these books were written about the same time dark matter was discovered (dark matter is a sort of thing that scientists know nothing about but that it can move through any type of matter and has a mass).
And what the LHC does... What type of science is this? 'Cause whatever it is, I've suddenly become very interested in it... And it's hard to be interested in something you don't know the name of.
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#55 2008-09-13 13:17:26
Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
I recently won a zoom eyepiece-works great! And my favorite books are the Artemis Fowl series-own all 6. I'm a really fast reader, so I own a lot of bestsellers. I just ordered some from Chapters, actually. (Essential X-men volume 1,and the Klutz Encyclopedia of Immaturity.) And I'm very sorry that I had to leave so suddenly last night!!
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#56 2008-09-13 17:42:45
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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
big-bang wrote:
I recently won a zoom eyepiece-works great! And my favorite books are the Artemis Fowl series-own all 6. I'm a really fast reader, so I own a lot of bestsellers. I just ordered some from Chapters, actually. (Essential X-men volume 1,and the Klutz Encyclopedia of Immaturity.) And I'm very sorry that I had to leave so suddenly last night!!
I've read 5 out of six artemis fowl books 
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#57 2008-09-13 18:14:06
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Read all 6 of em.
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#59 2008-09-14 09:30:58
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I haven't read any Artemis Fowl books. I don't really read that type of book, I heard it's Science Fiction. I'm more a Fantasy type guy. Except that at the moment I'm reading a science-fantasy book. It's a mix between science-fiction and Fantasy. I've never really been pulled into any of those books which are that famous, other than Harry Potter.
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#62 2008-09-15 18:46:18
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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Anybody read Pendragon? I've read all 10 of them.
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.""-Charles Schultz
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#64 2008-09-15 19:11:30
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AllScratchedUp wrote:
My aunt is an astrophysicist. She recently went to Switzerland to WORK on the LHC. (And no, I am not making this up.)
Also, can I join the Astrogeek Union? Pleeease?
I just found out that my aunt didn't work on the LHC, she just visited it on vacation. But she IS an astrophysicist! 
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.""-Charles Schultz
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#66 2008-09-16 20:36:34
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I have this cool program called Stellarium where you type in your location and the time, and then you can watch stars, virtually. I forget where I got it, but it is Mac-only.
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.""-Charles Schultz
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#68 2008-09-16 21:26:01
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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
AllScratchedUp wrote:
I have this cool program called Stellarium where you type in your location and the time, and then you can watch stars, virtually. I forget where I got it, but it is Mac-only.
I've got stellarium 2 I personally prefer Celestia because u get to fly around our galaxy , I crash landed into earth by accident once XD
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#71 2008-09-18 04:39:57
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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Jens wrote:
I find it comforting to frequently check this site: http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
Very useful! I was wondering where I could get this information!
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#72 2008-09-18 12:20:41
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Paddle2See wrote:
Jens wrote:
I find it comforting to frequently check this site: http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
Very useful! I was wondering where I could get this information!
Yeah. But I wish I could get it on an RSS feed so that if something changes I would get an update quickly.
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#73 2008-09-18 12:46:35
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lol! as a follow-up to my last post, check out the html of that site:
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?</title>
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this is the fault of daniel drucker dmd@3e.org
the first person to ask for an RSS feed gets a free black hole in their junk
you are too late, people have already asked. ok fine i made one. rss.xml.
-->
<link rel="alternate" title="Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?" href="http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/rss.xml" type="application/rss+xml" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body style="text-align: center; padding-top: 200px;">
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[ddrucker@scatter ~]$ host -t txt freon.3e.org
freon.3e.org descriptive text "Anesthetized monkeys exposed to 25,000
ppm or 50,000 ppm [of freon] for 5 minutes had [cardiac] [arrhythmia]s
including [tachycardia] and decreased contractility (U.S. EPA 1983)"
In their paper, Coleman and de Luccia noted:
The possibility that we are living in a false vacuum has never
been a cheering one to contemplate. Vacuum decay is the ultimate
ecological catastrophe; in the new vacuum there are new constants of
nature; after vacuum decay, not only is life as we know it impossible,
so is chemistry as we know it. However, one could always draw stoic
comfort from the possibility that perhaps in the course of time the
new vacuum would sustain, if not life as we know it, at least some
structures capable of knowing joy. This possibility has now been
eliminated.
The second special case ... applies if we are now living in the
debris of a false vacuum ... This case presents us with less
interesting physics and with fewer occasions for rhetorical excess
than the preceding one.
S. Coleman and F. De Luccia (1980). "Gravitational effects on and of vacuum decay". Physical Review D21: 3305.
the crab always wins; it makes the baby syntacticians cry.
this page is now tail-recursive: http://scienceblogs.com/pontiff/2008/09/lhc_ad_beware_bears.php
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 120pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: black;" >NO</span>
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<!-- ok i have succumbed to the siren call of adding useful information to this page, here is Seed Magazine's coverage of the LHC -->
<a
href="http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/09/large_and_in_charge.php" style="font-weight: light; font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; color: #999999;" >?</a>
<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-143825-2");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>
</body>
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#74 2008-09-18 14:10:38
Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
This is hilarious! I didn't even think about looking at the html source of that page... Did you get your free black hole yet, chalkmarrow? (could you forward it to me, plz, I'd like a CC of it, lol!)
Jens Mönig
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#75 2008-09-18 16:42:20
Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Jens wrote:
I find it comforting to frequently check this site: http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
And, for those of you who need more things to worry about:
http://www.livescience.com/technology/d … th_mp.html
Last edited by fullmoon (2008-09-18 16:42:35)
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