End of the World 5.37PM AEST

[springwater]

What a way to go, if we did, I was sitting in a traffic jam

[Phil Spencer]

Bugger !!!!!!

[springwater]

Bugger !!!!!!

ah, um, Phil...how is your life in general at the moment?

[pugwash]

I think it's a wonderful experiment. At the very least maybe we can use it to keep our beer cold.

[Phil Spencer]

ah, um, Phil...how is your life in general at the moment?

Apart from having to put up with belligerent and bombastic pain management doctors treating my wife its not to bad,
Imagine a sargent major on hormones having a bad dose of PMT and also having a bad day all rolled into one, would be a accurate description of these guys.

[Honorary Bloke]

I have studied this entire issue carefully and am of the opinion that it is a case of mass hysteria. It can't possible result in any kind of catastrophic . . . eerrkkkkk!! Arrgghh! ... blip.

[tea lady]

I heard them say last night that they shoot a partical round the 27km loop and it goes around 11,000 times per second. Cool huh! and pretty quick.

[JackoH]

Wait 'til they fire them in opposite directions!(We could still be destroyed. Pass the Grange please)

[Phil Spencer]

I heard them say last night that they shoot a partical round the 27km loop and it goes around 11,000 times per second. Cool huh! and pretty quick.

That's about as fast as my company car getting home on a Friday afternoon

[Waldo]

I think it's a wonderful experiment. At the very least maybe we can use it to keep our beer cold.

At $7,000,000,000 at least it should be used for some worthwhile thing rather than wasting money on some theory.

[Wongo]

Have Japan and NZ disappeared yet?

[Waldo]

Have Japan and NZ disappeared yet?

I was hoping that a part of the North American continent has disappeared. Maybe they need to put more juice into the tunnel when they next fire it up.

[kiwigeo]

Bet you a case of 98 Grange the world doesnt get destroyed.

There are collisions between subatomic particles going on around you every day that release more energy than the collisions that will be going inside the LHC.

Wait 'til they fire them in opposite directions!(We could still be destroyed. Pass the Grange please)

[kiwigeo]

At $7,000,000,000 at least it should be used for some worthwhile thing rather than wasting money on some theory.

Next time you go for an MRI scan or pop into the nuclear medicine department of the hospital for your cancer treatment think for a few moments how all the technology around you was developed......it's all a direct product of nuclear physics experiments involving accelerators. One of the latest developments in nuclear medicine is MRI proton imaging.

In my job in the oil and gas exploration game we use subatomic particle generator based logging tools to tell us whether or not there is oil in a reservoir and other petrophysical properties of same. The latest neutron porosity tools have had their chemical neutron sources replaced with mintrons (electronic neutron generators). As well as generating a more powerful neutron beam the minitron can be turned on and off which makes the tool alot safer to handle at surface than a tool with a chemical source that must be loaded and unloaded from the tool.

There are countless other pieces of technology that we take for granted in our everyday life that have come about through experiments such as the CERN LHC.