(attempt at making it dirty) Yeah baby, wanna collide with my hadron?

rockntrumpet

So this really isn't Iron Man's Arc Reactor?

Zlevee

Its kinda cool we might die from a black hole created by ourselves, however it would be sooooo much cooler if the annihilatrix sent us to our "doom".

parliamentpoet

@mhlaxp: mmmm, nougat.

Xenocide

@Hectorvex: One day, it will be handheld.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Yeah, it might annihilate humanity in the same way that Mars may have a delicious nougat filling.

mhlaxp

Leptons feel unloved... :'(

sisedi

@txpunk: I've been up close and personal with a firecrotch and it looks nothing of the sort.

Very pretty industrial work, though.

SigmundTheSeaMonster

Thats cool as long as I get to be one of the Combine and not a headcrab zombie =(

Bluesk1d

@92BuickLeSabre: Are you kidding? I'd brag about that. In fact, since it's underground you can brag that you live ABOVE the Large Hadron Collider. And a talking spaceship that looks like a liquid metal tear comes and picks you up and you listen to Beach Boys tunes and he talks like Pee Wee while you race up and down the coast for no clear purpose. Now THAT'S something to brag about.

Hectorvex

And to think the whole Earth might get squished right through that hole. Technology just blows me away!

Poon

Man looking at this thing as a geek, and one thats always been interested in everything from quantum physics to astrophysics this just makes my little geek heart crumble.

Its so freaking awesome.

I'm just kind of sad we didn't have the cajones to finish the SCSC in Texas. I can't wait until we start hearing about teh science come out of this thing.

I don't think I'd be far off to consider it a modern "wonder of the world".

spinal77

@Duckspwn: it's almost spelled "Hardon"...think about it...

jakebathman

@UrIt: A proton is one type of hadron.

Xenocide

It may not destroy everything, but you couldn't pay me enough to live within the circle.

"Ooooh, you live near an airport and you live near a nuclear plant...let me tell you where I live."

92BuickLeSabre

@capitalass: OH. MY. GOD.

What a great video.

jakebathman

wtf is a Hadron, and why are we stupid enough to try and make one

UrIt

i thought a black hoe was supposed to be black?

the1sen

This is gadget pr0n. The only way to describe the Large Hadron Collider is sexy.

Duckspwn

Can it suck the metal coating off off the Kristina Loken terminator?

Xenocide

Yea...it does look like a sunflower.

It's easily the most amazing creation of man thus far.

bobx3

Van Gogh saw the whole world in a sunflower...
The Large Hadron Collider may just have this effect...

+ Watch video

ANoel

yeah, but those pics are nowhere near as cool as the movie:

+ Watch video

capitalass

need... more... powerstrips!!!

nutbastard

Giant Science Mandala.

ideaman2020

@Hectorvex: Firecrotch!

txpunk

@txpunk: As long as I get to hang out with Sharon Stone, it'd be worth it.

txpunk

That is the coolest Stargate I have ever seen... wait... what? It's a what? A Large Hadron Collider? Ah. Okay.

Should I be disturbed that I find that picture quite erotic?

Hectorvex

Turns out this is just a Watchmen promotional add...

Dr. Manhattan sightings coming soon.

doobiebros2two

@Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!: I still want a refund for that movie :P

Dylorian

I feel like I am going to start hallucinating giant squid.

txpunk

What if it opens a gateway and Sam Niel falls out with his eyes gouged out of his head? Just sayin...

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Black hole? Annihilation? Okay, I'm sure someone here took physics or astrophysics in college....

diesel828

That think is unreal. For some reason it makes me want to go watch Sunshine.

Metropolis

If nothing else I bet my iPhone will still be working! Ain't life grand!

juliusa

Are we sure we're not looking at the reproductive organs of the Spaghetti Monster???

FiveLiters

@whatnot22: I bought a 1TB NAS Raid 1 drive for my porn. I suggest you do the same. Buy two.

@josho2001: No, that really happened.

Hectorvex

@capitalass: now thats what i call FUNKY FRESH!!

Charging_Mooses

@Hectorvex: Love the Flight of the Navigator reference.

josho2001

Hey a free trip to France, when it sucks the whole world through the black hole it creates. Ooops....wait.... a trip to France isn't all that appealing.

Can I use their massive amount of storage? I need the 10 petabytes of space per second to download all my porn. That high def porn is killing my hard drive.

whatnot22

This thing is gonna be awesome because it can't fail to impress me in either end of the results.

Success: Knowledge attained that revolutionizes life as we know it.

Failure: I get to laugh at how these people wasted all their money on hopes and dreams

dMo

I'm really psyched about this one, particularly the "God Particle", aka the Higgs Boson. This is supposed to be the particle where all the mass is. Maybe this'll get us to the bottom of it all - maybe stuff won't break down any farther. I doubt it though.

stryder100

been following the countdown. almost there. [www.lhcountdown.com]

dhaberer

@Open_universe: Don't worry, as the black hole pulls America into the event horizon, you'll have plenty of time to put your atoms around her. WHILE WE ALL DIE SCREAMING!!!!

MarlboroTestMonkey7

(that would be the *fifth* picture...is Counting a prerequisite for Particle Physics?)

bah

the fourth picture down: serious physics Goatse. Now I know where all this Black Hole talk is coming from. Just opposite where the God Particles are hanging down from the Hadron.

I feel filthy...

bah

Lisa Randall is one of the physicists working on this thing. Any 411 on her? Married, kids, etc.?

Open_universe

"If we're going to die, we might as well be killed by the biggest, most beautiful piece of technology ever assembled by man."

And last piece of technology evar!!!

Ryanraven

@ideaman2020:

That made me laugh for a solid minute there. I wonder who's going to sweep it up once it's ready to go. Maybe it'll just eat everything in a 100 km radius?

AmbroseP

I've heard about this... I don't want to die just yet damn you!

aaj111

Seriously this looks like something a movie evil genius creates and then holds the world hostage for some ungodly amount of money (or "1 miiiilion dollars"). This thing is scary.

thedoctah

The way these look always freaks me out though, it's almost phobic.

videoCWK

@PennyG: "(a proton = 1.67 x 10exp-27 kg) which is small but a LOT heavier than a photon)"

hahaha

it most certainly IS a lot heavier. An infinite percent heavier.

I totally can't wait for this machine to start up so everyone can quit their bitchin

wolfenstein-3d

Is this for real? Props to humans.. Seems like a very large and complex structure for throwing around some microscopic thinga majigs.

bonedog73

Brian Keene wrote two zombie books that I highly recommend. Suffice it to say, the End of the World occurs when the LHC opens a rift between our world and the world of the djinn. Both "The Rising" ISBN # 978-0843952018, and "City of the Dead", ISBN # 978-0843954159.

Apparently they are planning a movie based on these books.

Open_universe

I think the blackhole wont be big enough until the end of 2012.

myotheralt

@jakebathman: I have a hardon, for 800!

Where did you get that marker?

Con Seannery

@diesel828:

The LHC may (very unlikely: maybe impossible) create mini blackholes, due to the energies involved, which are pretty high, and which are needed to accelerate a proton (a proton = 1.67 x 10exp-27 kg) which is small but a LOT heavier than a photon) to near the speed of light.

Mini blackholes are only problematic if they last for very long (these, if they are even formed won't), and/or actually interact with matter (due to charge, etc.) leading to all the matter on earth being sucked into them.

Don't worry, you won't notice either way.

PennyG

@parliamentpoet: The joke is lost when you can't type "you're" doom.

Maybe it'll fix global warming and I can finally get a "ming" t-shirt.

kidincredible

And isn't it kind of odd that something that the name of something that looks quite feminine evokes a phallic image?

thedoctah

@diesel828: Yes, actually I have a bachelors in physics. So...for the uninformed...if you were to "create" a black hole out of crashing a couple of protons together you would get a black hole that is so small it would do...(drum roll please)...nothing! If you compressed our sun all the way down until it became a black hole do you know how much gravitational pull it would have? Exactly the same as it does now. The mass would merely be occupying a much smaller space, say that of a basketball. (Don't have the time or energy to figure out the Schwarzchild radius of our sun.) So the pull of these two protons would be exactly that, the pull of 2 PROTONS!! And how much pull is that?

The problems arise when you fall inside it's sphere of influence. Actually, now that I think about it I think the Schwarzchild radius is it's sphere of influence? So the actual black hole is smaller? Anyway. The LHC would be creating these EXTREMELY tiny black holes for EXTREMELY short periods of time. I think I remember something about a mountain being compressed to less than a nanometer in size to become a black hole. So no, we don't have to worry about these black holes "eating" the earth. Do people seriously think that some of the smartest minds on the planet would be this careless with the "fate of humanity"?

ninjamurf

this is actually what happened to the romans

There entire Civilization just dissapeared

and all that was left was a large circular building...

think about it

punisher-prime

@Dylorian: Worst. Movie. Ever.

Atlantys

Imagine the guy who just finished wiring that, uhh dude I think cables 183331222 and 183331223 are crossed, can you fix that...doh!

Hardcore1

Seximize my desktop with a proton acceleration device any day.

SinAmos

Can you people take the joke? It's suppose to simulate a black hole, not become one; if it were to become a black hold, who thing would collide on itself in an instant and then it would have been a big waste of money.

AlphaTeam

would you like to play a game?

airgauss

@ninjamurf: "Do people seriously think that some of the smartest minds on the planet would be this careless with the fate of humanity?"

Yes.

crapcakes

The guy who said this thing would open black holes is actually being prosecuted for fraud (unrelated to the collider).
I am the prosecutor.

Skyyboy

"The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat's, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit, a window into nothing."

autonomousgerm

FEED ME, Seymour!

infmom

@videoCWK: It's because the builder did not know that the colors in the plans were for readability. The builders actually thought they need to make the parts those colors.

As a result, it is, in my opinion, the most beautiful testament to science that humankind has built. Bright, shiny, colorful, and talked-about.

OMG! Ponies!

The collider itself won't open up any black holes. The problem is that there is a chance that some robot will use the collider to open a black hole.

It's less a collider-related danger and more of a killer-robots danger.

OMG! Ponies!

@Skyyboy: Very interesting. It's not very often you learn something like that from an anonymous comment hidden down a thread on a gadget blog.
Can you say more?

92BuickLeSabre

Yeh there was some guy in Hawaii that was gonna sue CERN because he was afraid their collider was gonna destroy reality.

An interesting new hypothesis holds that the proton itself is a black hole. And the strong force that keeps sub atomic particles together is just gravity in the vicinity of black hole protons.

In this view what CERN is doing is accelerating protons (mini black holes) to near the speed of light and then colliding them. Keep in mind that these mini black holes are each spinning at the speed of light - like all black holes. When you collide such dense and rapidly spinning objects you would expect to see (as they already do) exotic particles sheer and cascade off of them.

Will they merge into a larger black hole - perhaps but at a two proton mass it may be very short lived as it doesn't seem to be a natural scale that black holes exist at. We should see some interesting fireworks here in any case.

Hunabku

*BING* "NOAH!"
"WHAAAAaaaaT?"
"I WANT YOU TO BUILD AN ARK"
"Riiiiiight. What's an Ark?"...

Bueller

It's like a mother's womb...

Fuzi Lojak

So what do they use? CAT-7?

MinskyBA

@ninjamurf: The same thing was said about the nuclear bomb. They never knew what was going to happen and some people were injured (as in evaporated)...

VakeroRokero

@autonomousgerm: Actually, that picture made me think of a different character: Proginoskes, from A Wind in the Door by Madeline L'Engle.

frndlybnny

@VakeroRokero: But did they destroy the Earth with this "run away nuclear cascade"?

ninjamurf

Wasn't there a Dr. Who episode about this?

"I for one welcome our new Cybermen and Dalek overlords!"

Barfolemew

@Article
"Looking for some new desktop pictures? What better to have as a desktop than the contraption that's going to create a black hole in a mere week, killing us all? The Big Picture has a great collection of high-res Large Hadron Collider images, and they're stunning. If we're going to die, we might as well be killed by the biggest, most beautiful piece of technology ever assembled by man."

Someone has a positive negative attitude full of sarcasm about this whole event. XP

Seriously though.. I look forward to them pulling the test off successfully.

-Core-

God...this joke is getting so old. There have been a dozen articles on Gizmodo about this damn particle accelerator all saying "going to annihilate humanity" If that really was the outcome I doubt humans would have built it. And to keep making the same damn joke every time is pathetic. The first time, maybe it was funny...MAYBE...a very dry humor kind of funny maybe. I doubt this would kill us when the nuclear bomb was supposed to kill everyone on earth. A nuclear bomb is a deadly weapon...funny thing....we are all still here. So do we have the pleasure of another dozen articles about what this thing is going to do or will Gizmodo actually write an interesting article when the experiment has actually happened. Frankly I am getting sick of what might happen, what will happen. How about you hold off on another Large Hadron Collider article until the experiment has actually happened.

Daimyo Nintendo

@Daimyo Nintendo: It was funny the first time, and got progressively less funny after that. Although one time, a couple instances ago, it was briefly slightly funny, but then went back into nonfunny territory again.

A humidifier and dehumidifier placed in close proximity to each other, cranked up on high, have a better chance of destroying the universe than this thing.

lpranal

GOD SAVE US ALL... !! JUST AS SOON AS HE COMES OUT OF HIDING..!!

@Hectorvex: It May Look EROTIC... But once its switched on...you can kiss you balls goodbye...LMAO.. that is why if you look closely at the pic's most of the workers are women, except for that guy on the scooter... why is he wearing a mask? what is that going to do against a blackhole? Anyone...?

@ninjamurf: You Bet Your Sweet Physics a** they would !! Have done and will always continue to do all in the name of science and exploration.

@Daimyo Nintendo: YOU ARE DYING.. you just haven't realized it yet.. Mother Earth will have the last laugh.

And for the record (AFTR), ya'll do know that BLACKHOLES, WORMHOLES, MILKYWAYS (see were i'm going with this) and moving at the speed of light, are all perverted geekish and nerdish sexual fantasies stemming from bottled up unattainable wacky desires. plus all these hypothetical manifestations that are neither witnessed nor proven, but rather a rosy make belief of a better greater life(for them anyway.. since they can't really fit in this one). Realizing the danger of a Geek with plenty of time on his hand, politicians indulge them in these unachievable feet's of engineering that will probably keep them occupied for eternity. Expensive, maybe, but the alternative is truly devastating and that is the real hidden danger. Just so we're clear :)
Now Carry On...

OneObuyan

You know what? I feel like starting a cult around this thing. All brothers and sisters hail the great Large Hadron Collider. The mother ship is going to take us home soon.

Quicksilver4648

You aint lyin. That thing is extremely impressive, it will become self aware and turn the planet into a giant planet eater.

chumleyex

Every now and then humanity gets something big right.
But not very often.
I wonder how the geeks won this time.

moron

Look on the bright side: if it destroys the world, there will be no more John McCain ads!

CowboyDenver

Did capitalass's video make anyone feel better? Kinda sounds like they know that they may potentially blow the world up in the form of an upbeat and horrible rap song?

StopTheLHC

@Hectorvex: dude! it's science, not goatse 2.0!

that being said, i, for one, welcome.....no, getting old? okay.

i hope this thing runs as planned, but just in case, i'm glad i visited europe last month, and have pictures to show of what might (but hopefully won't) soon be the lost continent.

rimplestultskin

Wait... I've seen this movie before...
Isn't this the same stuff as in the Terminator 3 movie? They better find and hide John Connor before that thing happens... just in case.
Kinda eerie... distributed networks known as the Skynet: Isn't CERN where the World Wide Web first publicly appeared??? And the world as we know it could end there too.
Frank Sinatra singing the My Way intro...

StarShooter1