View Full Version : Physics question: what type of collider is this?


No More Oldsmobiles
05-12-2008, 01:03 PM
See part highlighted in yellow. It was referred to in the New York Times.

http://largehardoncollider.com/nyt_lhc.gif

SideOfBacon
05-12-2008, 01:09 PM
hrm... never knew proton was another word for:
http://seamenthemusical.com/db3/00207/seamenthemusical.com/_uimages/SeamenGroupWeb.jpg

dmc27
05-12-2008, 01:18 PM
^ WTF is that???




:eyetwitch

SideOfBacon
05-12-2008, 01:18 PM
^ WTF is that???




:eyetwitch

seamen

Winfree
05-12-2008, 01:21 PM
Collinder - it comes from the cooking classes next door....

SideOfBacon
05-12-2008, 01:25 PM
Collinder - it comes from the cooking classes next door....

would this be a Collinder

http://amysrobot.com/files/colin_farrell.JPG

Jethro Tull
05-12-2008, 01:26 PM
Oh, that has to get to Jay Leno right away.

Winfree
05-12-2008, 01:30 PM
The problem with using micro black holes as garbage disposals
is that you cannot retrieve dimond rings and cats that fall into them,

and they are all the same color so you cannot coordinate them with your kitchen...

dillsrotary
05-12-2008, 01:30 PM
On a serious note, i'm also part of a physics online forum, and everyday some new wacko joins to proclaim that this will end the world and blah blah blah. The truth is if you even remotely know the math or ACTUAL physics behind this device you'd see its no more dangerous than a baseball player hitting a home run (same amount of energy.)

{ends rant}

Jethro Tull
05-12-2008, 01:38 PM
On a serious note, i'm also part of a physics online forum, and everyday some new wacko joins to proclaim that this will end the world and blah blah blah. The truth is if you even remotely know the math or ACTUAL physics behind this device you'd see its no more dangerous than a baseball player hitting a home run (same amount of energy.)

{ends rant}

Hey, that's STILL a very impressive Hardon, you know?? Isn't a home run the main idea anyway? :lol:

Kari
05-12-2008, 01:43 PM
lol comon now, collider should be self explanatory in the clipping. Look up particle accelerators.

Jethro Tull
05-12-2008, 01:45 PM
Don't they ALL accellerate particles? They shoot out of there pretty darn fast, you know...

I guess the particles can ooze out slowly...nocturnally...then they aren't accellerated at all.

SideOfBacon
05-12-2008, 01:46 PM
lol comon now, collider should be self explanatory in the clipping. Look up particle accelerators.

particle accelerator?

http://ivo.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/fluxcapacitor2.jpg

1.21 gigawatts?

Winfree
05-12-2008, 01:53 PM
While the result are well worth the smash-up, I always sense that this is an indelicate approach - rather like ramming two 8s at each other, head on at high speed, so that you can figure out from the wreckage how they were built...

As a biologist I have always admired proton pumps in mitochondria, and proton driven, fully reversable, rotating engines, that power up the flagella of bacteria....

SideOfBacon
05-12-2008, 01:55 PM
While the result are well worth the smash-up, I always sense that this is an indelicate approach - rather like ramming two 8s at each other, head on at high speed, so that you can figure out from the wreckage how they were built...

As a biologist I have always admired proton pumps in mitochondria, and proton driven, fully reversable, rotating engines, that power up the flagella of bacteria....

which ways the wind blowing? is either one of them FI'ed? Either of the drivers female? all factors we need to take into consideration before a vivid picture can be painted.

wind - could slow down the overall max speed due to the constraints of aerodynamics
FI'ed - a possible higher rate of speed to consider
female driver - would never collide because the driver would have gotten lost on the way

Kari
05-12-2008, 02:00 PM
^ Wow, cav, you're so asking to be hated by the females on here, aren't you? :lol:

Winfree
05-12-2008, 02:05 PM
Choose to differ - if they were females, they would have managed to arrive on target, because women always ask for directions when they think they are lost -

but if a woman was driving she might have hit more than the intend target - some women do have parking problems, and being more attractive, she might attract a crowd of particles with odd quarks, and strange charms!

SideOfBacon
05-12-2008, 02:08 PM
Choose to differ - if they were females, they would have managed to arrive on target, because women always ask for directions when they think they are lost -

but if a woman was driving she might have hit more than the intend target - some women do have parking problems, and being more attractive, she might attract a crowd of particles with odd quarks, and strange charms!

yes, but women drivers cant tell directions, only left and right.

gas station clerk: head east on 28th, north on martin luther king, and finally west on kennedy st.

female: umm...

alnielsen
05-12-2008, 02:16 PM
They have to be male. They fly around at high speeds on a race track.

Winfree
05-12-2008, 02:18 PM
I rather like the image, a group of physics types are setting the focus of the beam and one says to the other "just a little more to the east!"

Yup, there is your steering directions "East of the sun and West of the moon"