The LHC Might Have Actually Found What it's Been Looking For

[godofallu]

Wait has the LHC destroyed the world yet?

Let me check real quick: http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

Nope.

Well it's only a matter of time, and this article just screams take cover.

 

[Doclector]

Oh god.

Oh dear god no.

Such boundless science can only lead to one thong.

Cave Johnson finally getting his combustible lemons.

Run. Just f***ing run.

y'know what? I saw that typo. I saw it and decided I'm leaving it in. For teh lulz. And somehow, for science.

 

[WolfEdge]

Oh god.

Oh dear god no.

Such boundless science can only lead to one thong.

Cave Johnson finally getting his combustible lemons.

Run. Just f***ing run.

y'know what? I saw that typo. I saw it and decided I'm leaving it in. For teh lulz. And somehow, for science.

I'm the man who's going to BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! WITH LEMONS!

 

[Low Key]

Dumb question,
What is a Higgs Boson, and why have these people spent $320million a year for almost two decades on it? What would/could be achieved if these guys found what they were looking for?

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Obligatory Have I Got News For You Reference

I love Paul Merton's Description of how it works.

Collider? I hardly knew her!

 

[Laxman9292]

What does the Higgs Boson particle do again? Or should I just shut up and let science do its thing?

It can do the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs.

Still not as good as the Millennium Falcon though...

 

[Laxman9292]

Yay the Higgs-Boson... excuse me while I go hide in my doomsday bunker.

Spoiler

The proud owner of 3 spots in this Cracked article on experiments that will end the world

 

[Aethren]

It's evidence that the world is coming to an end. Somebody call the tenth Doctor.

 

[Jodah]

"Well, we spent 5.5 billion dollars and 17 years but we did it. I guess that leaves us only one option...PARTAAAY!!"

And that, my friends, is how the end of the world begins. A bunch of drunk smart guys around the largest particle accelerator in the world...what could possibly go wrong?

 

[cairocat]

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I just decided to take the time to super-ultra snip you guys and tell you all that each one of you guys' comments on this site made me chuckle inside and honestly brightened a test-anxiety-filled evening. Thank you, guys. I could have just lol'd and left but I figured I had to tell you guys that your memes and lulz do actually get appreciated by people. Hope I made your e-penises bigger. +20 internets to you all. Goodnight.

 

[JoelChenFA]

Science is cool and all, but imagine how we could have helped developing countries with 5.5 Billion frickin dollars. It's a little bit more important than satisfying our curiosity no? I'm a science fanboy, but come on.

Science is cool and all, but imagine how we could have helped developing countries with 5.5 Billion frickin dollars. It's a little bit more important than satisfying our curiosity no? I'm a science fanboy, but come on.

To be fair, the advancement of science tends to lead to better ways to help people. Any investment in science is a good one.

And to be honest, $5.5 billion for a science experiment isn't all that much when compared to the other kinds of spending in, say, the US.

Better than making defense contractors rich in order to preserve "democracy" or "freedom" yah.

 

[Saltyk]

Whatever it turns out to be, This discovery is still a Victory
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/100/c/a/Dr__Insano_Yes_We_Can_Poster_by_Eunacis.pnghttp://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/image?c=03AHJ_VuuP0nhG10S1jlR_akRa5bCO0Xc1GRJDbEE87xyvLemrstxGAkZmrFSnAztnibCRn17Ub6bd8CrdwzkebuU0t7YFOBKxsoTX6d_EP6FH9UjzkyX-tawhxLA67374Uw_q5PWqZv2_UmOL6SLlbBCDTNyR4eDlcQ
I think Captcha is up to something!

so, the Internet is gonna visit the LHC?

that can't be good

that can't be good at all

Oh God. Hide the Japanese school girls! They will be helpless against whatever the internet is up to. My bet is awakening Cthulhu.

OT: We can speculate all we want, but I'm sure that we'll hear about this all soon enough. My money is on this only being the beginning of the experiments. Likely, even if we were 100% correct (don't hold your breath), there will only be more questions to be answered.

 

[Canid117]

The Portal is almost complete! Soon we shall be able to bring more old ones here to do battle with Cthulhu and his compatriots Godzilla style!

 

[captaincabbage]

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snippety snip

snippy snippy

snippety snippety

double snip

super snip

I just decided to take the time to super-ultra snip you guys and tell you all that each one of you guys' comments on this site made me chuckle inside and honestly brightened a test-anxiety-filled evening. Thank you, guys. I could have just lol'd and left but I figured I had to tell you guys that your memes and lulz do actually get appreciated by people. Hope I made your e-penises bigger. +20 internets to you all. Goodnight.

. . . I forgot what I said.

 

[McMullen]

Science is cool and all, but imagine how we could have helped developing countries with 5.5 Billion frickin dollars. It's a little bit more important than satisfying our curiosity no? I'm a science fanboy, but come on.

Question: Just where do you think the ability of the developed countries to help others to the extent that we do came from? Hint: It did not come from putting off discovery and technological advancement until all the world's problems were solved with sticks, rocks, and fire.

 

[StellarViking]

This is awesome news. I just like it when they fire that bad boy up. Particle physics give me a hadron.

 

[Syntax Error]

Good for them, but why does science look a bit like hello.jpg?

 

[ChupathingyX]

Oh god.

Oh dear god no.

Such boundless science can only lead to one thong.

Cave Johnson finally getting his combustible lemons.

Run. Just f***ing run.

y'know what? I saw that typo. I saw it and decided I'm leaving it in. For teh lulz. And somehow, for science.

I'm the man who's going to BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! WITH LEMONS!

It has begun...I don't know how I'm going to survive these ones.

 

[Tulks]

. . . I forgot what I said.

If only there were some way to look back at previous posts...

Wait, there is a way! The way I just said!

 

[cantgetaname]

They need to find a way to harness the LHC as a handgun. I'd buy it.