The ATLAS Detector

[bejohnson]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0802/atlas_cern.jpg (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0802/atlas_cern_big.jpg)
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Source (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080225.html)


Dawn of the Large Hadron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron) Collider
Credit & Copyright (http://cern-copyright.web.cern.ch/cern-copyright/): Maximilien Brice, CERN (http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html)


Explanation: Why do objects have mass? To help find out, Europe's CERN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN) has built the Large Hadron Collider (LHC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider)), the most powerful particle accelerator yet created by humans. This May, the LHC is scheduled to start smashing protons into each other with unprecedented impact speeds. The LHC will explore the leading explanation that mass arises from ordinary particles slogging through an otherwise invisible but pervasive field of virtual Higgs particles. Were high energy colliding particles to create real Higgs bosons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson), the Higgs mechanism for mass creation may be bolstered. LHC will also look for micro black holes, magnetic monopoles, and explore the possibility that every type of fundamental particle we know about has a nearly invisible supersymmetric (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetry) counterpart. The LHC@Home project will allow anyone with a home computer to help LHC scientists search archived LHC data for these strange beasts.

Pictured above, a person stands in front of the huge ATLAS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS) detector, one of six detectors being attached to the LHC.

[slowmode]

That hurts my eyes looking at it..

[viperrcr]

Looks like a robotic eye with the retina in the center...
Terminator??? j/k

[RCKage]

Ive been doing some reading on this thing..and it was featured on that radio show coast to coast.....apparently they only have theories on whats going to happen when they flick the switch to it....some theorize that its going to create a black hole (extreme case) and theres two russian mathematicians that think its the first step in time travel? other theories included things like creating a particle beam that could black a hole into the planet. Apparently....they're trying to recreate the moment AFTER the big bang...i heard one guy talking about it and i ended up laughing myself half to death. "I can hear the news now. Some alien on the far reaches of the universe wakes up one morning, flicks on the telly to hear the news about 'some scientists in a backwater galaxy called the milky way managed to create a black hole large enough to engulf their entire planet. The ensuing chaos spread out of control until emergency crews from the Symbian Quadrant managed to get the situation under control. This is only an initial report but officials believe the problem was in Dr. Smarts' forgetting to carry a 3. More to come at 10"

[Empty_Quarter]

That looks like it can crack earth into two.

[viperrcr]

Looks like the launch bay for BattleStar Galactica's vipers...

I bet the power demands are HUGE for this thing!

[455olds]

I think I ran through that thing playing doom3.

[Empty_Quarter]

I think I ran through that thing playing doom3.

I think you meant crysis, looks awfully familiar.

[egarrard]

I think you meant crysis, looks awfully familiar.No, you saw it is the prevues for the next James Bond movie.

[egarrard]

The ensuing chaos spread out of control until emergency crews from the Symbian Quadrant managed to get the situation under control.That's the one inhabited by nothing but naked women, right?

[Salavat23]

I want one, how much?

[eire1274]

Ah, they finally finished that one!

I'm excited to see what it can do. But rather nervous considering which planet's gravity and magnetic field I'm sharing with it... :lmao

This is picking up where we (the US) left off after we chose to not fund the Superconduction Super Collider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider) after 14 miles of rock had been excavated, because of cost projections for completion. Argh! Sorry, folks, but sub-atomic science isn't cheap!

[Airmack]

Ive been doing some reading on this thing..and it was featured on that radio show coast to coast.....apparently they only have theories on whats going to happen when they flick the switch to it....some theorize that its going to create a black hole (extreme case) and theres two russian mathematicians that think its the first step in time travel? other theories included things like creating a particle beam that could black a hole into the planet. Apparently....they're trying to recreate the moment AFTER the big bang...i heard one guy talking about it and i ended up laughing myself half to death. "I can hear the news now. Some alien on the far reaches of the universe wakes up one morning, flicks on the telly to hear the news about 'some scientists in a backwater galaxy called the milky way managed to create a black hole large enough to engulf their entire planet. The ensuing chaos spread out of control until emergency crews from the Symbian Quadrant managed to get the situation under control. This is only an initial report but officials believe the problem was in Dr. Smarts' forgetting to carry a 3. More to come at 10"

residence cascade!!!!!!!