So I attended a seminar on the new physics possibilities at CERN, whose new collider will have beam (they claim!) late this year. The presenter spent about twenty minutes going through various New Physics scenarios that are considered likely enough to be worth taking into account when building the detectors, and then he comes to his section on "The Large Hadron Collider at CERN", dealing with the actual construction. And he has mis-spelled 'Hadron' in the obvious way.
It was the most interesting moment of the whole seminar.
CERN scares me. Something about a bunch of people colliding sub atomic particles together at very fast speeds, "just to see what happens".
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Or did you mean that you don't think it actually was funny? Because in that case I'd agree with you. But he did warn us.
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CERN scares me. Something about a bunch of people colliding sub atomic particles together at very fast speeds, "just to see what happens".
I particularly like when they come out and say "we're going to conduct a test that *might* create a black hole that *might* suck in all the matter on Earth and *might* kill us all... but not likely... Fire at will!"
Yes, they pretty much say it that way. I've seen those kind of reports on CNN.
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You didn't even have to spell it wrong, it was the first thing I though of. There's a LOT of that type of humor in my circle of friends Posts: 3950 | Registered: Mar 2006
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CERN scares me. Something about a bunch of people colliding sub atomic particles together at very fast speeds, "just to see what happens".
I particularly like when they come out and say "we're going to conduct a test that *might* create a black hole that *might* suck in all the matter on Earth and *might* kill us all... but not likely... Fire at will!"
Yes, they pretty much say it that way. I've seen those kind of reports on CNN.
Oh, no worries. The probability is much lower than the chance of the Earth's atmosphere taking fire from nuclear testing, which was a concern back in the forties. Besides, think what an incentive the space program would get!
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Once in a math class the teacher held up some rods to illustrate the positions of some vectors. Except that, to distinguish it from the others, one of the rods was actually a carrot, and it was the most phallic-looking carrot I'd ever seen. I saw other people---girls, even---grinning about it, too.
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Oh for the simpler days of high school physics when we didn't have to worry about misspelling "hadron"... we just rubbed "hard rubber rods" in "patches of soft fur" to get a charge.
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