Large Hardon Collider

[Chun Liroy]

I guess you had your mind made up for you. Boeing vroom vroom!

[Eliseos]

Let's fly some planes up in this bitch.

[Woozie]

Quick, I need to know how to slay dragons for my presentation on particle physics/LHC in a half hour (seriously).

Is there a special weapon or something you have to use to kill a dragon? Kind of like how vampires are weak to garlic and sunlight and can be killed by driving a stake through their hearts...is there something similar for dragons? Is there a special way to kill them or do you just stab them until they die?

[Chun Liroy]

I think you just knight them to death (lol). Mind if I ask why? But no, I've never heard of anything besides good old steel to the heart or what have you.

[Kaylia]

Quick, I need to know how to slay dragons for my presentation on particle physics/LHC in a half hour (seriously).

Is there a special weapon or something you have to use to kill a dragon? Kind of like how vampires are weak to garlic and sunlight and can be killed by driving a stake through their hearts...is there something similar for dragons? Is there a special way to kill them or do you just stab them until they die?

None that I know, it's almost a sword slashing their throat or an arrow/lance piercing their heart. Going for a traditional knight is probably the way to go.

[Kaylia]

I think you just knight them to death (lol). Mind if I ask why? But no, I've never heard of anything besides good old steel to the heart or what have you.

Probably the needed joke at the begining of any presentations to capture the viewer's attention. This one is probably about the odd to see the LHC summon dragon (compared to it destroying the universe)..or something along these lines.

[Mizango]

lol Woozie wtf? Only you, I swear.

[Kaylia]

Drag­ons. Prob­a­bil­ity $e^{-S_{dragon}}$
This pos­si­bil­ity was recently pointed out by Nima Arkani-Hamed. The laws of quan­tum mechan­ics allow any­thing to hap­pen, albeit the prob­a­bil­ity may be expo­nen­tially sup­pressed for com­pli­cated (large entropy) objects. CERN offi­cials main­tain there is no immi­nent dan­ger since the puta­tive LHC drag­ons will be micro­scopic (small drag­ons have the small­est entropy, hence the largest prob­a­bil­ity to appear in par­ti­cle col­li­sions) and any­way they will quickly suf­fo­cate in the vac­uum of the beam pipe. Some researchers, how­ever, have expressed con­cerns that the drag­ons might sur­vive, grow, burn ATLAS, kid­nap ALICE and lock her in a tower. A more com­pre­hen­sive study of the poten­tial risks is underway.

Black Holes. Prob­a­bil­ity $0.1*e^{-S_{dragon}}$
Although micro­scopic black holes have smaller entropy than typ­i­cal drag­ons, the advan­tage of the lat­ter is that they are con­sis­tent with the estab­lished laws of physics, whereas TeV-scale black holes are not. There are many indi­rect argu­ments against TeV scale grav­ity, from pre­ci­sion tests, through fla­vor physics, to cos­mol­ogy. Cer­tainly, drag­ons are a bit safer bet.

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[Eliseos]

Smaug the Dragon in the Hobbit had a weak part in his armor.

As with most dragons, Smaug's scaly hide is nigh invulnerable, yet his softer underside is more vulnerable to attack. However, centuries spent sleeping atop his gold hoard has caused gold and gemstones to become embedded in his flesh, creating essentially an impenetrable armour. However, when Bilbo met him in his lair, he discovered a small bare patch on Smaug's left breast. When Bilbo told his Dwarf companions about Smaug's weakness, he was overheard by the thrush that roosted by the mountain's secret door. The thrush in turn told Bard the Bowman of Esgaroth. When Smaug attacked the town, Bard shot his Black Arrow into Smaug's left breast, the armour's weak spot, killing him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smaug

[Woozie]

Probably the needed joke at the begining of any presentations to capture the attention. This one is probaly about the odd to see the LHC summon dragon (compared to it destroying the universe)..or something along these lines.

This.

Here's my second-to-last slide so far

Spoiler: show

http://i56.tinypic.com/de8y0j.png

Whoops, "black holes" is supposed to be on a new line.

[Eliseos]

Hahahaha, that's awesome. I'd stick with that rofl.

[zoobernut]

Quick, I need to know how to slay dragons for my presentation on particle physics/LHC in a half hour (seriously).

Is there a special weapon or something you have to use to kill a dragon? Kind of like how vampires are weak to garlic and sunlight and can be killed by driving a stake through their hearts...is there something similar for dragons? Is there a special way to kill them or do you just stab them until they die?

Depends on what mythology you follow but most seem to talk about Dragons having a perfect impenetrable hide and they have one small single missing scale that is their weak spot usually over their heart. I know The Hobbit used this mechanism.

Ah beaten by Eliseos, thats what I get for getting up from my desk to get some work done.

Edit: Lol awesome last slide.

[Eliseos]

I know The Hobbit used this mechanism.

Hivemind = brofist.

[Woozie]

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Somehow I didn't see this before my presentation. Just noticed this post and I wish I had seen it sooner.

[Kaylia]

I don't think it was posted yet, but a friend sent me this to me on AIM.

http://www.vimeo.com/22956103
or
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php

I don't think anyone here will learn something new, but the video is still pretty cool.

[BerenTebogo]

Doing a presentation and looking for a specific .gif. It's of a gas cloud collapsing and igniting and clearing out a large area around it. Pretty sure it's from a brian cox video. I want to put a clip of it in my powerpoint but I can't find it. Maybe you guys could help me out?

[Eliseos]

I decided to look at the Journal of Cosmology's website (it's still as terrible as ever) and found that the article that claims alien life is found is now on sale at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982955294?...4AASR58KQTQN0&

[Tristam]

I decided to look at the Journal of Cosmology's website (it's still as terrible as ever) and found that the article that claims alien life is found is now on sale at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982955294?...4AASR58KQTQN0&

Ohhhhh J. Cosmo, that was a fun time. Their entire journal was a marketing scam for their various panspermia books.

This was my favorite article:

http://journalofcosmology.com/Cosmology4.html

"Thus, in the religion of the Big Bang, Earth serves as ground zero and the measure of all things. Thus according to Big Bang theology, a star is "13 billion years old" because it is "13 billion light years from Earth." A star, and thus the universe, is "accelerating" compared to stars closest to Earth (Perlmutter et al., 1998; Schmidt et al., 1998). Stars display red-shift or blue-shift in relation to movement toward or away from Earth (Perlmutter et al., 1998; Schmidt et al., 1998). Although most cosmologists will deny it, their Big Bang interpretations of data require it: a geo-centric universe with Earth as the center and measure of all things--exactly as demanded by the Judeo-Christian religion. The "Big Bang" is religion masquerading as science. Its the Biblical story of Genesis dressed up in the language of science. The theory was in fact proposed to make the Bible scientific. "



....what...?

[Chun Liroy]

So since apparently I get my all my science news and info from Cracked.com lmao
Cool read: http://www.cracked.com/article_19161...-your-dna.html

Interesting that Schizophrenia, MS and bipolar disorder could be caused by dormant retroviral DNA lol.

[Eliseos]

Mathematician halp please. I have to write an assembly program that determines whether a number n is prime. My professor gave two possible solutions, either test divide n at least up to sqrt(n), with no number evenly dividing, n is prime. He also suggested a table lookup. I don't really want to do either. Is there another way of determining n prime (preferably something that can translate well to programming) than those two ideas?