Large Hadron Collider to get larger brother

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Large Hadron Collider to get larger brother

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Monday, Sept 15, 2008

Three years in the making, ILC to outshine the LHC

An announcement was made regarding a larger particle accelerator which seems to be in line for construction.

Since the Large Hadron Collider has thus far failed to exterminate life on Earth, Brain Foster of Oxford University is keen to start work on the International Linear Collider or ILC, a project that has already cost $150 million for the designs alone.

The accelerator, which will accelerate electrons and positrons rather than protons such as the LHC handles, is nicknamed “Einstein’s Telescope” and it is hoped that the work on the Large Hadron Collider will be built on by the more advanced, 31 mile long structure. It will contain two “guns” to fire the electrons and positrons and should be instrumental in answering the questions the LHC cannot.

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Unlike the LHC, the ILC will have to be constructed in a straight line, due to the nature of the elements it will handle. It will have linear accelerators pointing at each other in order to achieve collision.

 
 

[Brithunter]

Hmmm well this will take years to construct. The one at Cern took over 3 years to rebuild for the current crop of experiments and although is 27 kilometers in dia it's not a circle but 180 straight runs each slightly set at an angle from the next as you cannot fire the particles in a curve. How od I know? well I help make some of the Di Pole magnets that it uses.

[magooch]

What's this Large Hardon collider stuff?  You guys been hangin around some of them queer porn sites?

[Brithunter]

NopeI have F**k all to do with queers because as far as I am concerned the only good queer is a dead queer 

It's a pity that the Di Poles only have a 2" bore otherwise we could put dimwitts like you in there and see how you do going round it. Of course the magnetic field is so strong that it would boil the blood where it pulls the iron particles out of it. Could be interesting to watch that  .

[magooch]

And I thought Bill had just admonished us to be civil to one another.  Bite me.

[rex6666]

Is this contraption going to make fish jump in the boat, deer stand broadside
every time they see a hunter, or make beer taste better, or what.
is this really going to do something or is it just another toy.
PLEASE EXPLAIN.

[myronman3]

some people are so scared of their own shadow it isnt even funny anymore.   

[Brithunter]

Is this contraption going to make fish jump in the boat, deer stand broadside
every time they see a hunter, or make beer taste better, or what.
is this really going to do something or is it just another toy.
PLEASE EXPLAIN.

It's a very big and very ................................. very expensive toy for the scientific community and even the folks at NASA have used it. To even get consideration for using it's facilities you need to be at the top of your field. Not everything revolves around hunting you know and you never know they might discover something useful but as I am not a scientist I cannot help you to understand what exactly they are doing with it.

[doc_kreipke]

It would be a pure-science physics research tool without any specific practical use. It would be used to generate knowledge just for the sake of knowledge. By way of example, discovery of subatomic particles has come from experiments on similar devices. Lots of practical things have developed from pure research, but ya never know in advance what those might be, if any.

[gypsyman]

It's alot of scientists doing something that will require LOTS, of tax money. 20 or 30 years from now, after LOTS, of tax money, the scientists will have discovered that it will make hair grow, teeth whiter, sex life better, cure piles,etc., etc.,etc. gypsyman

[ironglow]

  I appears that this is a high priced toy that the world's people can ill afford..just to prove or disprove the "big bang" theory.
  If that is the case, what difference does it make to John Q Public whether the "big bang" took place or not ?
   We have been working scientifically throughout civilized history without the answer to that question, why worry about it now ?
  Perhaps because I am a non-scientist, I cannot forsee how finding out whether the "big bang" took place is going to help us
  to find a cure for baldness, cancer or gout.
     Even if they do find a big bang took place..can they prove whether the big bang was a stellar accident or God created.
  ....And what difference does it make anyway, so far as today's science is concerned..

   Another big waste of money (IMO) is the very costly space program that is now trying to find some kind of microbes on other planets.
  So if they spend 20 billion dollars and find some microbe fossils aon one of the moons of Jupiter..how does that help us today ? It sure
  seems like the 20 billion dollars could be better used to bolster our economy here on earth !
   ...And what if they find a live microbe that is deadly to us and resistant to anything we have to fight it ? Anyone ever heard of the
  proverbial "mad scientist"..are we getting them by the dozens now ?