'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
LHC Day!!
Today they just launched protons one way around the collider, to make sure that...well, I don't know what. To make sure it worked? To make sure there were no bumps that made the protons trip?
Yeah, they just made a complete circuit of the 17 miles of superconducting magnets. It's an amazingly complex and huge machine.
ION, I'm going to marry Garrison Keillor. [link]
Immediate destruction doesn't seem to be on the agenda, but who knows - maybe we'll get pulled into a black hole REALLLLLY SLOWWWWWWLLLLY.
I believe that if a black hole got created and if Hawking was wrong about Hawking radiation, it would still be so small that the Sun would engulf the Earth before it could gain enough mass to be a problem. Black holes with super teeny tiny mass would have ultra super teeny tiny gravity.
Teeny tiny black holes? You could SO market those.
To make sure it worked? To make sure there were no bumps that made the protons trip?
There was an incident on a previous particle accelerator where someone had sabotaged it by putting a couple of empty beer bottles in the tunnel. So they need to make sure nothing like that is going on in this one before they turn it on for real.
I believe that if a black hole got created and if Hawking was wrong about Hawking radiation, it would still be so small that the Sun would engulf the Earth before it could gain enough mass to be a problem. Black holes with super teeny tiny mass would have ultra super teeny tiny gravity.
Yeah, according to an ex-coworker's husband who is working on the LHC (she's an ex-coworker because he got this job and they moved to Switzerland), it would take something on the order of 5 or 6 billion years before the black holes created in the LHC became a problem.
McCain's campaign said Obama's remarks were offensive and a slap at Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin -- despite the fact that the Arizona senator himself used the phrase last year to describe a policy proposal of Hillary Clinton's.
despite the fact that the Arizona senator himself used the phrase last year to describe a policy proposal of Hillary Clinton's.
ahahaha... remember when "facts" meant something?
Am rooted even deeper in my political pessimism.
I'm trying not to pitch a fit.
You know how I wanted to go to my brother's defense?
Coworker already has put in for vacation for those days.
He couldn't have known. Hell, I didn't know. But his vacation days have fucked me over so well the past two weeks, and will again in another few, not even counting this, I've kinda had it.
I.need.a.fucking.break.