hi, i'm twelve

[rmd]

so, as you may know, the large hadron collider is due to go online soon.

you may have noticed that "hadron" is one letter transposition away from "hardon".

someone certainly did. behold, the (nsfw if they object to large cartoon phalluses) large hardon collider

Comments

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

This is the Big Mistake. It'll take several decades for the quantum black hole they create do devour the Earth, so let's hope we can get offworld fast enough.







(I am kidding.)

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

Oscillating inside, orbiting Earth's core, dense enough to pass through solid rock like a penny through air after being dropped off the Empire State.

[spazzkat.livejournal.com]

huh huh huh huh huh huh

hardon

huh huh huh huh huh huh huh

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I am trying very hard not to set that as my desktop background image.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

No lie, there was an article with "long-lived hardons" *in the title* in one of the major physics journals 20-odd years ago (my mom worked here (http://pdg.lbl.gov/) for 35 years and as a teen I occasionally did odd jobs like photocopying and organizing articles for their database).

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I think we may all be twelve in this particular instance... :)

[cz_unit]

From a CZ standpoint, I'm really not worried about mini black holes, what concerns me is that by melting the quarks in search of the higgs bosson, they might melt a hole in the underlying vacuum.

If we live in a false vacuum zero state (and we probably do), this would be like drilling a hole in a swimming pool on the top of a hotel. The "water" is reality, which would drain through the hole as the vacuum melted.

This would be bad.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Just *falls over giggling*

[evwhore.livejournal.com]

also this t-shirt (http://entrager.livejournal.com/112736.html)