Comments on: A longer delay for the Large Hadron Collider

The world's largest physics experiment has seen a series of setbacks since September, but CERN is determined that "the LHC will run next year."

[aka_tripleB]

Is this thing ever going to be used or is it going to continue to eat through money until the drop the project all together?

[BlitzBoy1120]

Wow..I cannot believe one leak caused such a huge delay, I was looking forward to seeing the LHC in action, but I guess I have no choice.

[montex66]

I came here looking for kooky theories about the LHC creating a black hole and sucking the earth into it. So far, I am disappointed.

My Sunday will be so dull without a nutjob conspiracy theorist. C'mon guys, I know you're out there!

[Seaspray0]

Montex66, Space aliens sabotaged the colider to prevent us from learning how to make fusion reactors.

[mike-from-montana]

Don't have to worry about Black Holes - Barry Obambi will prevent any such rift in the time-space continuum. He invented quantum mechanics, didn't he?

[Nael]

In the parallel world, the collider costs is much cheaper and actually works with stargates to go planet hoping.

[coryschulz]

@Nael - LOL!! I'm very excited to read up on some new data on this once it gets going. Too bad it fell apart so soon. I really do hope I don't get sucked into a black hole.... that would suck...

[ruminator]

Al Gory invented quantas mechanix when he discovered the Internet. But the LHC can't create a black hole that would suck the earth into it...the earth is all ready in a big black hole created by G. W. Bush.

[klor5]

You know I've heard Al had a thing for QANTAS Mechanicks.

[Eludium-Q36]

Scariest authorized statement: "The priority is to get collision data from the experiment," said Gillies. "The LHC will run next year."

Wow, didn't we - the world - learn from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster that SAFETY is the first priority, not results ?! CERN executive management needs to take a deep breath and get their priorities straight or the headlines in late '09 will be another iteration of "when fools rush in..."

[msims]

I agree with ruminator. The LHC can't create a black hole becuase it can't create the gravitational force of 10 to 100 solar masses (10 to100 times the mass of the Sun) 1 solar mass = 1.98892x10^30
with also equal to 332,950 time the mass of the Earth (Earth mass = 5.9736x10^24) which is close to
6 sextillion tons! There are no known forces on Earth not even its own gravity can produce such a force nor mass. The LHC black hole comspiracy theorists have nothing but a big black hole in their own theory.

[merelogic]

It's operational, they're just not letting anyone know about it, it relieves them from all the distractions and gives them time to prepare a false report. Guess we'd eventually know the truth when the black hole sucks us.

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