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Posted By pagey 1 year, 3 months ago in Science & TechnologyWhy are people without physics degrees counting down until the first proton beam travels the ring? Is it because the bad science of the machine's supposed doomsday potential traveled faster than quantum mechanics? Or because there's never been a more powerful mega-gadget like it?
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ind061 year, 3 months ago
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The Superconducting Super Collider to be built in Waxahatchie, Texas was indeed canceled in 1993, but not due to safety issues.
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In 1987 Congress was told the project would cost $4.4 billion, by 193 the cost had risen to over $12 billion. At the same time NASA was contributing a similar amount to the International Space Station. It was argued that the country could not afford both and the Superconducting Super Collider was canceled.
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ind061 year, 3 months ago
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The Stanford Linear Accelerator was founded in 1962 and has been in use for approximately 30 years.
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The Bates Linear Accelerator at MIT has been in use since 1972.
CERN's Large Electron-Positron Collider began running on the Franco-Swiss border in 1989.
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ningyo1 year, 3 months ago
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the only thing the hadron does is to try and re-create whats happens thousands if not millions of times daily naturally in an environment where we can watch it---particles from space are constantly zipping through earth at near light speed and sometimes collide with atoms and spin off these little molecular storms--except its in the middle of the planet where we cant see what happens---you can sort see what happens in a vapor chamber but cant get any real data from the aftermath...yes... its hard to believe but at this moment interstellar particles are raining down on you and your cat...its one reason that magnetic tapes deteriorate over time...aside from being next the the refrigerator...so get out your tin foil hats and wait for the big bang from switzerland..this thing will likely spin off little black holes..thats a normal part of our earthly existence...but like most radioactive elements they only last millisecs---you can all relax now and back to bashing palin
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Ratskii1 year, 3 months ago
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Well, the first hadron collider experiment(s) have occurred. One of two things has happened.
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1) the experiment was perfectly safe all along and we had no reason for concern.
2) the universe (beginning with the earth) was destroyed and we just failed to notice.
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