Will the large hadron collider ever launch?

What do you mean by launch? I mean, they already use it, and as far as I know we haven't been engulfed in a tidal wave of anti-matter yet, sooo....

 

you're looking on the wrong website for hardon collision.
As for the particle accelerator at CERN, they have been doing heavy research on it for a while now. Go and read up on this, then google around

http://press.web.cern.ch/public/en/lhc/CMS-en.html
http://press.web.cern.ch/public/en/lhc/ATLAS-en.html

 

Indeed, they've accumulated like 6 months worth of data or something already. It's a matter of processing it now.

Can you articulate why you're uncomfortable with this, synth?

Also, worth mentioning every time something from the bleeding edge becomes widespread knowledge people freak out over it. The general public in England thought that a train going over 30mp/h would kill all on board and explode in flames, for instance. The radio is the invention of the devil and will kill books. Cinema will radio. Tv will kill cinema. Internet will kill everything. The nukes will cause the atmosphere to ignite. Computers will kill us all due to a rounding error.

If you go back far enough, we have sketchy records from the transition from Oral to Literate societies where the Elders/Wise Men bitch about how writing stuff down means you'll never have to bother remembering anything.

If you go further forward, an industrial revolution scale advancement may very well happen every ten months, by 20something. Get used to change. Get used to development. The age wherein things changed very little during your life time have been over for decades. The TwenCen relics are mostly those who are experiencing it these days.


Knowledge is your friend. Ignore the tabloids. Read some scientific journals on it. Don't get caught up in the hysteria next time.


Also, this is a very minor example of "Future Shock". A better one would be showing your great grandparents an aeroplane, or 4chan.

 

space travel

 

I guess it's a good thing I'm not human, then, my friend! :3

 

You're thinking about the modern world from the viewpoint of a fearful Cro Magnon peering out at the loud noises and flashes in the sky. Really man, read more! Particularly hard sci fi. There is an absolute glut of information out there. Knowledge is power and all that.

Also if making black holes sounds impressive to you then a matrioshka brain hacking the planck substrate and running timing attacks on the space/time foam will blow your mind. And if you're still afraid of The Bomb, then imagine a universe where being concious/self aware isn't just useless, it's out right detrimental (great novel, but very heavy. The links to mull over that theory are at the bottom), which is a far scarier thought than large sections of the globe being rendered uninhabitable or humans being set back a few thousand years.

 

you're not making any bloody sense tbh. Please read some physics before posting about such matters -.-

1) since the black holes created on earth are created using relatively small masses, they can not cause enough destruction to even collapse the lab they are made in. They are very short lived afaik and you should not be concerned about them
2) the mass-energy equivalence is used to calculate the energy freed in nuclear reactions, including what's going on in nuclear powerplants. Sadly we don't know how to turn any kind of mass into energy (yet)
3) the main purpose of the experiments they're running in CERN is to find the Higg's boson, the particle that is assumed to be central in gravity. The electron and photon have already been found, but it's still unclear what gives matter its mass
4) throwing stuff at stars is absolutely useless. It'll just melt since most stars are basically huge fusion reactors
5) if you're worried about bombs, start building a bunker