Large Hardon Collider

[Mizango]

Perhaps I'm late to the game, but has the thread title always been Large Hardon Collider?

Yes. If you go back to the beginning you can see us politicking to try to change the name but this one seems to have stuck lol.

[Woozie]

Miz, I think what he means is that instead of Hadron, it says hardon (hard on). I don't think it's always been like that lol

Edit: It was originally "So whatever happened to the LHC?" and eventually changed to Large Hadron Collider. I don't know why the thread is still named after the LHC thread. It's more of a general physics thread than the LHC specifically.

[Mizango]

Oh damn lol. I CAN NOT UNSEE!!!!! D:

[Mizango]

Every time we post its like we're all sword fighting each other @@ Oh man, I was much happier 3 mins ago lol.

[Woozie]

Yeah, I can't believe I've been participating in something called "Hardon Collider" all this time.

[Mizango]

Yeah, I can't believe I've been participating in something called "Hardon Collider" all this time.

ROFL

[Max™]

It definitely wasn't The Elegant Universe, Miz, got a copy upstairs. Only read through Fabric of the Cosmos in bookstores, so I may have missed it there.


The reason to think it is possible, Kaylia, is because you can produce a valid solution for the Einstein Field Equations describing it, and finding exact solutions to them is FUCKING HARD AS A PORNSTARS COCK ON VIAGRA!

http://knowyourmeme.com/i/910/origin...n_Collider.png

[Woozie]

I thought it was The Elegant Universe. Brian Greene's version of this theory used String Theory to explain it, so it's more likely to have been in the Elegant Universe than Fabric of the Cosmos. But then again, I read these books so long ago that I could easily be mistaken. But I am 100% sure it was one of these two books.

Edit: Since we're talking about Smolin and Greene, is Smolin's book debunking string theory worth reading? I have it on PDF, but I have such a hard time reading anything Smolin writes. I think I asked about this book before.

[Max™]

The Trouble with Physics is great, but I love Smolin and his dry writing style.

My copy of The Elegant Universe is old as shit, like a month or two after it was published (early 2000 I think), and I know he comments on stuff like the precursor to the anti-De Sitter method of describing a black hole as a hot cloud of expanding particles in a negatively curved spacetime, which corresponds to the same description in our positively curved spacetime.

The AdS/CFT correspondence/Maldecana conjecture wasn't well known at the time though, he literally was only describing the way a Type IIb string problem can be solved by formulating it as a Type Ia string, solving it easier that way, then translating it back, for example.

[Mizango]

Smolin and Magueijo team ups are the best.

[Khamsin]

Oops, I changed it on April Fools and forgot to change it back. Consider your hardons safe from collision, folks.

[Woozie]

You should have put "Large Hard-on Collider"

[Eliseos]

Consider your hardons safe from collision, folks.

Phew. Though it was funny seeing Miz squirm.

[Mizango]

Phew. Though it was funny seeing Miz squirm.

At first I thought that said "squirt" >.>


Yeah ill be leaving now..

[Woozie]

I read it as "sperm". Khamsin's mind games are working D:

[Eliseos]

It seems you've both caught the gay

[Kaylia]

The reason to think it is possible, Kaylia, is because you can produce a valid solution for the Einstein Field Equations describing it, and finding exact solutions to them is FUCKING HARD AS A PORNSTARS COCK ON VIAGRA!

I understand that we can describe wormhole using these metric, but can we really obtain a "worm hole" using a normal black hole with a mass at the center? I'm not going to lie and pretend I have ever solved a real EFE (the only one I have solved was for non rotating spherical body), but I'm curious to see how normal black hole can be turned into a wormhole.

[Mizango]

It seems you've both caught the gay

I blame Khamsin.

[Eliseos]

Came into this thread thinking it said "Large Hard On Collider,"

Found this on page 9 of this thread while looking for the "math is embedded in the universe" argument. Looks like Khamsin was beaten to the punch. Scrolling up the page and it caught my eye.

[Mizango]

Those of you on my FB have already seen this, but Ill post it here were rational people reside because all it will take is for Vajra or one of these other doom and gloom assbags to get a hold of this and turn this into a negative, but this is pretty awesome and I will certainly be watching tonight!

http://www.universetoday.com/2010/04...earth-april-8/

Good to know the Spaceguard teams are keeping an eye out for us. The eagle-eyed observers at the Catalina Sky Survey have spotted an asteroid which will pass relatively close to Earth this Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 23:06 U.T.C. (4:06 p.m. PDT, 7:06 pm EDT). But it should pose no problem, as at the time of closest approach asteroid 2010 GA6 will be about 359,000 kilometers (223,000 miles) away from Earth – about 9/10ths the distance from to the moon. The asteroid is approximately 22 meters (71 feet) wide.

"Fly bys of near-Earth objects within the moon's orbit occur every few weeks," said Don Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

This one, however, is a bit bigger than other recent asteroid alerts NASA's Near Earth Observation program has issued. In November 2009, a 7-meter asteroid called 2009 VA came within 14,000 km (8,700 miles) of Earth and in January, 2010 AL30 was about 10-15 meters long and came within only 128,000 km (about 80,000 miles).

NASA's NEO program, also called Spaceguard, discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them and plots their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet.

So while you're waiting for this one to pass by you can read Don Yeoman's top ten favorite asteroid facts.

The Catalina telescope is in Tucson, Arizona.

For more information about asteroids and near-Earth objects, visit NASA's Asteroid Watch page.