Everyone's done a post on LHC. Why should I be out of the loop??
Today, while walking down the down, I happened to overhear two girls talking about the LHC:
Girl 1: So, if this experiment went wrong, yesterday is the last day of earth.
Girl 2: (Shocked) Oh no!
Girl 1: But thankfully, the experiment didn't went wrong, so it's okay.
Anyway, apart from telling us what exactly our government spends half our education budget on, and the state of english in IIT (I told you so!), it also gives us a slight idea of exactly how uninformed the people around us are about the LHC!
My at.mol prof told us on tuesday "So, in the event that the rumour about micro blackholes being created and sucking us all in is true, we shall not meet on monday. But I can pretty reasonably assure you that that will not happen. So, be on time."
One of those times, when you forgot your physics and wished for blackholes. Especially since we have an assignment due monday!
Ah, well, C'est la vie.
I sent this link to most of you. Got it from Ajay's status message. Apparently, most of you have already seen it. In case you haven't:
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
It's not completely true. But funny nevertheless.
Apparently, Hawking has a bet for $100 that the Higg's boson will not be discovered. Which is not so good, actually. The search for it will still be on, and they'll just end up building a bigger accelerator and spending more money. Starving millions, anyone?
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4 weeks ago
5 comments:
you should've seen the report on LHC on headlines today. it was hilarious. but i can imagine the effect it'd have on a credulous population.
many people stuffed themselves on the 9th, thinking it was their last meal. now they have to find a way to lose all those extra calories :P
That whole bit about black holes was quite hilarious.
As for the starving millions, let them starve. If they get money they buy guns cf. Africa
Fyi, black holes are real and are usually found in parts of the universe where an infinitely long solid-state lecture is happening. So i really don't see what you are complaining about
@ Psuedo: Hey! How come no one told me it was an excuse 'do-what-you-otherwise-won't-dare' ?? Think of all the things I could done!!!!
And I couldn't see the headlines today (or any other) report thanks to the girls in my hostel who insist on watching saas-bahu serials all evening! :-(
@ Roshan: If you had cash, we all know what you would buy!!
@ Sido: Oye, Solid state is funnnnn!
im becoming a regular here.. anyway, the first collisions will take place only after a month.. what they did was just start some test accelerations.. end of the earth? no, i guess that wont happen anytime soon..
check this link: http://qntm.org/?destroy a humorous look at how to destroy the earth.. :)
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