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Run a competition, the first prize being
to
get to crawl around the inside of the new
Large Hadron Collider at CERN, before it
starts firing particles. Winner also gets a
T
shirt with an appropriate slogan (on
which I
am still working.)
Now has a song to go with presentation
ceremony,
by the Ronettes of course: "I
met another particle, and my heart stood
still,
da do hadron ron, da do hadron..."
Large Hadron Collider
http://en.wikipedia...rge_Hadron_Collider
at Cern [xenzag, Mar 24 2008]
LHC
http://lhc-machine-...teresting-facts.htm
some stats [xenzag, Mar 24 2008]
LHC
http://petermccread...folio/07041608.html
selection of super 3d pans with sound [xenzag, Mar 24 2008]
Street Luge
http://www.skateluge.com/stluge.htm
The only way to travel around this thing, I'd've thought... [DrCurry, Mar 24 2008]
Large Hadron Collider at webcomic xkcd
http://xkcd.com/401/
"When charged particles of more than 5 TeV pass through a bubble chamber, they leave a trail of candy." [baconbrain, Mar 26 2008]
Two men pursuing a lawsuit in federal court to block LHC
http://www.nytimes....3347fe4e&ei=5087%0A
[Klaatu, Mar 30 2008]
Open day at CERN
http://press.web.ce...s2008/PR03.08E.html
Go if you can. You've only got three days to get over there and the last one was in 2004. [wagster, Apr 03 2008]
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"I crawled miles through a curved airless steel tunnel and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"..... |
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Before anyone points it out - I know that
there is not much space in that pipe... but
this is the halfbakery. |
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Ouch!</having collided head-on with [8th]> |
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I hope someone was observing how my wits were scattered, so they can collect them for me energetically. |
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T-shirt suggestion: "Bosons, muons, pions, fermions, and this moron have one thing in common....we have all been in the LHC." |
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This bun is for 4whoms T-shirt. |
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Do you have to crawl all 16 miles to get the T-shirt? And through the actual accelerator ring, or is strolling through the service tunnel acceptable? |
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What'll happen if you meet someone else coming the other way? Do you have to stand with your arms and legs reached out in strange ways while a Matrix-like shot of the pair of you is taken? |
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Dr. Strangelets, or, How I stopped worrying and learned to love the inevitable runaway fusion process initiated by the conversion of all matter into strange matter. |
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I just want to crawl to the end to see if Kilroy had made it there yet. |
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I'm also thinking of a new version of a
Frank Sinatra track: "Strangelets in the
night, exchanging glances we were
leptons at first sight, it turned out so
right for strangelets in the night" |
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*Crawling* ? At least you should be shot around on a street luge, even if they can't actually get you up to near light speed. |
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Why not wait till it's operational and do it then? Have some hydrogen extracted from the winner and accelerate it to light speed. Which sure beats hydraulically compressing the winner through a tiny tube. |
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// Which sure beats hydraulically compressing the winner through a tiny tube. // |
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I was thinking of organising some sort of halfbakers expedition when it goes live. You can fly out there and have a bit of a tour and a snoop around. |
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[xenzag] Or Hawkwind's -Quark, Strangness and Charm |
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I had a dangerous liason
To have been found out would've been a disgrace
We had to rendezvous some mesons
On the corner of an undiscovered place |
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// You can fly out there and have a bit of a tour and a snoop around // |
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Looks like you've just discovered a whole new branch of Chaos Theory ...... |
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Scientists do it in tubes! |
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//T-shirt suggestion: "Bosons, muons, pions, fermions, and this moron have one thing in common....we have all been in the LHC."// |
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I want that t-shirt. I want to earn that t-shirt ... I want to be that moron. Where do I sign up for this competition? [+] |
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Oh my. I only wish I could bun again for [DrCurry] and his street luge anno. |
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Nice to see you around [Dub]. How is "Le Femme D'Argent"? |
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Hi [4Whom], it's nice to be noticed. (I'm back by request.)
Fine, as far as I know. {recent chat} |
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Or you could arrange for your ashes to be annihilated and turned into pure energy, fulfilling your hopes of what happens to you when you die. |
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Three buns. One for the original idea, one for [4whom]'s t-shirt, and one for [DrCurry]'s street luge anno. [+++] :) |
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Aw, I thought you meant we'd get to be an actual hadron. That would've been particularly fun. |
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! |
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I've just found out that on Sunday CERN is throwing open its doors to the world - see the detectors, meet the physicists, have a wander around the LHC (link). And I'm going to be in Paris. I wish I'd known about it earlier or I would have been there. |
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Anyway, if anyone gets the opportunity to scoot over to Geneva on Sunday you can do it instead and tell me about it. You might even get the chance to "get a bit lost" and hop into the LHC for a hadrons eye view. Put on a coat though, bits of it are now getting chilly (1.8K). |
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Chance to meet the bosuns and tell a
cringe making joke - "Hey is that particle
not hard to see? - "yes you need to keep a
firm eye on it!" sorry |
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Not good enough, not nearly good enough. Someone hold his arms while we open the access panel .... and for heaven's sake, stop screaming, it's only a littl bit of vacuum..... |
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