Extradimensional Portal Soon to be Opened

[photek]

THIS COULD BE DIABLO.

IRL.

FUCK YES ! I knew those axes in the toolshed was to come in handy one day. BRING THE MOTHERFUCKERS ON!

[Phildo]

I don't know about the Diablo references... isn't it more like Half Life?  Paging Gordon Freeman...

[Cyrrex]

I think the real issue here is can we afford not to do this if it could have created our universe in the first place?

So basically what you are telling me is that A) I am about to die because a group of geeks are opening a portal to Lucifer's Minions or B) I am about to die because we are about to make the entire universe re-explode so that I might exist for the first time in another few gazillion years.  Excellent, thanks.  No reason for me to not start that mass killing/raping spree that I'd been planning, then.

[MrHat]

No reason for me to not start that mass killing/raping spree that I'd been planning, then.

 

[Bzalthek]

No reason for me to not start that mass killing/raping spree that I'd been planning, then.

 

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[Oban]

Excellent, thanks.  No reason for me to not start that mass killing/raping spree that I'd been planning, then.

[Trippy]

Online documentation for the LHC (1600 pages worth)

Article about the documentation

[climbjtree]

So this is clearly above the level of science that I understand. What's actually happening with this thing? Is it just smashing atoms together at ridiculous speed or is it doing something completely new? Like breaking atoms down to a smaller level than before? Someone enlighten me, please.

[taolurker]

I get the Eerie feeling this is going to be a "before" picture.

After?

[Lantyssa]

I don't see the flower-breathing dragons in your picture.

[MrHat]

I don't see the flower-breathing dragons in your picture.

I applaud your optomism.

[Morat20]

So this is clearly above the level of science that I understand. What's actually happening with this thing? Is it just smashing atoms together at ridiculous speed or is it doing something completely new? Like breaking atoms down to a smaller level than before? Someone enlighten me, please.

It smashes them together at virtually light-speed. The resulting energy density is quite close to the energy densities in the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang. Like "picoseconds" after.

You could view it as "energy density" or "heat" or whatever, if it helps.

See, particles -- and forces -- undergo phase transitions. Like how water undergoes phase transitions at 100 degrees C and 0 degrees C (transitions gas to liquid, liquid to solid). Much like it's impossible (well, really difficult) to have ice in a 10,000 degree oven, it's really hard to find some particles at the universe's current "room temperature".

So the very nuts and bolts of physics, where it all comes together, is in those picoseconds after the Big Bang when it was really damn hot. At that moment, particles and forces existed in ways they never have since. And since everything from that moment on was a sundering and cooling and changing, they'll like to see what it was like "in the beginning".

It's really about how the four fundamental forces (gravity, electromagnetic, weak and strong nuclear) were one -- the Higgs. And the Higgs is the holy grail of physics. If they can find it, measure it, get a feel for how that bad boy worked -- they think they can finish unifying physics and get to some really cool shit.

That's the whole purpose of the bloody thing. Get particles moving REALLY fast and smash them into a target (or each other). In the moment of collision, the temperatures will be close to those of the Big Bang. So they see what sorts of weird-ass particles and forces exist at that level and see if they can use that to make the universe humanity's bitch.

[Engels]

[Sky]

ENGELS DO NOT MAEK POOPIES

[Merusk]

Thanks, Engels, for proving to me that I'm not the only broken sumbitch in this world... because I thought the same fucking thing when I saw that pic.

[Lakov_Sanite]

we're going to GOATSE the universe?

[Tale]

My French-Swiss cousins live just nearby. I was there last year. They're mostly proud of this thing, not worried.

[Venkman]

My French-Swiss cousins live just nearby. I was there last year. They're mostly proud of this thing, not worried.

Well ya gotta figure, this thing either grows a new universe inside and replacing the one we have... or it doesn't.

Or it does so in a different timeline?

Were all the timelines of the multiverse spawned from the Big Bang?

[Pennilenko]

I am camly awaiting the arrival of our new overlords.

[Trippy]

The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World

[schild]

Lotsa fuckin scientists in the comments there.

I'm still hedging on Diablo becoming real and me living the dream. Booya.

[Bungee]

Lotsa fuckin scientists in the comments there.

I'm still hedging on Diablo becoming real and me living the dream nightmare. Booya.

Fixed.

Playing Diablo may be cool. But as long as I don't become some kind of perma hulk or discover my ability of throwing around fire and ice IRL Diablo is NOT COOL!

But I just imagined just HOW many females I may could convince that they REALLY don't want to die as virgins   

[Sky]

we're going to GOATSE the universe?

Earth...the grief link of the universe.


Yeah, I can see that. Aliens give each other our coordinates as a joke, then run in fear, never able to scrub the human race from their mind, humming Rick Astley all the while.

[Aez]

No worries, everything is going to be fine :

[Miasma]

I'm going to start scattering crowbars, health kits and ammo all over the place.

[Bzalthek]

That guy on the far left is hammered.  He knows what shit is about to go down.

[Tale]

Why are people in suit jackets and scary ties tightening the bolts? Or is it loosening the bolts?

[bhodikhan]

No problem. They timed it so that the Spore release would give us the opportunity to 'design' our replacements.

[Simond]

No worries, everything is going to be fine :

That picture needs the G-man to be shopped into the far background.

[Venkman]

Why are people in suit jackets and scary ties tightening the bolts? Or is it loosening the bolts?

Ye gads, we've got a front office middlemanagement suit hand-tightening one of the most advanced pieces of precision-engineered technologies ever created 

[Miasma]

The sign says "last bolt tightening" so it would have been a ceremony akin to a groundbreaking.

[bhodi]

Not to mention that's an adjustable torque wrench; I'll guarantee every single one of the bolts on the LHC were tightened, by hand, using a a tool similar to that, if not that one itself.

You use it when you want to tighten bolts to a very specific tightness; something you can't do with a compressed air wrench.

It's also foolproof; there's a dial that you set to the desired rating, and then you just pull until it clicks, kind of like your gas cap. It's really hard to fuck up.

[MrHat]

Not to mention that's an adjustable torque wrench; I'll guarantee every single one of the bolts on the LHC were tightened, by hand, using a a tool similar to that, if not that one itself.

You use it when you want to tighten bolts to a very specific tightness; something you can't do with a compressed air wrench.

It's also foolproof; there's a dial that you set to the desired rating, and then you just pull until it clicks, kind of like your gas cap. It's really hard to fuck up.

So, you're saying there's a chance?

[Trippy]

And what if they calculated the torque needed wrong?

[schild]

And what if they calculated the torque needed wrong?

Large Hellgate Collider.