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Back of the net! The LHC has finally been doing physics today by smashing protons together at its top energy. So far, the detectors have seen half a million events. Hopefully, there's a pesky little Higgs Boson in there somewhere, being all heavy and giving the other particles mass, or love bites, or something.

Disappointingly, no time travellers have popped up. Mind you, they'd have exploded in the vacuum that makes the machine go. As a method of transport, that puts it only just above Ryanair.

I was listening to Radio 5 this afternoon when this was one of the topics. It was a fascinating listen and it should be on their iPlayer or whatever the BBC call theirs

Didn't they say something along the lines of this being done on an American collider and that it was only 7% of the intensity that the Swiss one puts out when it's mended?

On another topic I recently listened to on Radio 5, Amercian Scientists recorded the hottest ever temperature seen on Earth which was something along the lines of a few thousand trillion degrees centigrade - yes, that the figure!

Apparently it was several hundred thousand million times hotter than the sun but I can't find anything so far on t'internet about it so far.

Incredible stuff and it opens up more questions than it perhaps answers to most of us. Obviously measured on a light spectrum of sorts rather than a thermometer but what do they create such a temperature in and for how long?

Would keep your soup hot on the way to work - and probably back again

It is very exciting and fascinating stuff. My only concern is that this may be the way the last Big Bang was brought about. An alien civilisation playing around with a big machine...

Anyway that probably won't happen...

I liked Matt's take on it in today's Telegraph:

I bet there were a few hangovers in Geneva this morning, To put this into context, imagine building a machine capable of firing pins from either side of the Atlantic ocean and getting them to collide point on at exactly the right position over the middle so that you can see what happens when they do. Bit impressive, yeah?

Forget black holes and being sucked into oblivion, I reckon the LHC is responsible for this bad weather. It was a lovely spring weekend until it was powered up

kolm wrote:Forget black holes and being sucked into oblivion, I reckon the LHC is responsible for this bad weather. It was a lovely spring weekend until it was powered up

It's been lovely here in beautiful downtown Darkest Cheshire.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/short ... s-sab.html

This made me chuckle...

I clicked that link and my Browser encountered a problem causing shut down. Oooo-er!!!

This LHC thing is fascinating. Cost millions and it's trying to prove you can make nothing. Literally nothing.

gillows wrote:This LHC thing is fascinating. Cost millions and it's trying to prove you can make nothing. Literally nothing.

I'm guessing you've not really understood the implications of finding why things have mass and how to add it or take it away

Tomo wrote:

gillows wrote:This LHC thing is fascinating. Cost millions and it's trying to prove you can make nothing. Literally nothing.

I'm guessing you've not really understood the implications of finding why things have mass and how to add it or take it away

celebrity diet and workout videos?

A J Irving wrote:

Tomo wrote:

gillows wrote:This LHC thing is fascinating. Cost millions and it's trying to prove you can make nothing. Literally nothing.

I'm guessing you've not really understood the implications of finding why things have mass and how to add it or take it away

celebrity diet and workout videos?

Real levitation!

Tomo wrote:

A J Irving wrote:

Tomo wrote:

gillows wrote:This LHC thing is fascinating. Cost millions and it's trying to prove you can make nothing. Literally nothing.

I'm guessing you've not really understood the implications of finding why things have mass and how to add it or take it away

celebrity diet and workout videos?

Real levitation!

Pah, the masked magician exposed the Higs Bosun ages ago...