Graye Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I know it's the Daily Mail but...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1053719/Scientists-turn-5bn-Big-Bang-machine--here.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weedon Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Got dressed in my best (only) suit this morning, attached a collar to my shirt then knotted my kipper tie. I must say that I looked a real picture and would have made a great impression at the pearly gates. 8:30 GMT came and went. Now.....do I take a chance and take it all off and put on the usual clobber or shall I do the gardening dressed like it? How long does it take for a black hole to appear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Weedon, don't take off that suit just yet. Just tried to phone my brother on his mobile at CERN, he had just finished clearing up some conkers or something. He said that he couldn't talk, he'd have to go, apparently his phone set off some kind of chain-reaction [:-))]He did try to explain what had happened, I didn't quite understand, but it might have been this... http://www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/1390810/ShowPost.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorna Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Don't undress yet Weedon, it's only 8,15 GMT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorna Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 countdown here:http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 [quote user="Dick Smith"]I've just been listening to Andrew Marr - he seems to be in the dark as well.Possible reason here?[/quote]Dick. You would like this website:http://www.thechap.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weedon Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Thanks Lorna and Cat for your helpful postings. I have decided to sit at the pooter for a little while as I am a little confused as to when exactly the end is coming. If it comes in the next few minutes and we all meet again I am the one in the suit with the flourescent kipper tie and slippers with bunny rabbits on the toes. I shall try to hang on to my adjustable pooter chair (with arms) as it cost me €79:99. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I thought it had already started... [blink]I could swear the earth moved an hour or so ago...[8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 No sign of Twinkle, perhaps it just brought life to an end in her area. Ah well, I suppose it was nice knowing her.Clair, what was you doing when the earth started to move? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weedon Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 [quote user="Clair"]I thought it had already started... [blink]I could swear the earth moved an hour or so ago...[8-)][/quote]Clair! [:$] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 [quote user="Clair"]I thought it had already started... [blink]I could swear the earth moved an hour or so ago...[8-)][/quote]Too much information....................................[:D][:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorna Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 [quote user="Clair"]I thought it had already started... [blink]I could swear the earth moved an hour or so ago...[8-)][/quote]Clair, you are probably correct. I was correcting the GMT reference and assumed that was the time everything started. Sorry for any confusion.Tried the webcast and just got a black screen! Hope the accelerator works better.[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I have a dilemma, I'm thinking of going for a swim, but is the big bang likely to superheat my swimming pool? If we do meet up again in that other place Weedon, I'll be the one with the wet hair and the singed eyebrows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Have you seen the front page of Google today? Kewl!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Oh dear... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Well, well, ever since the doom machine started up the weather has improved. Hmmmmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 [quote user="Cat"]Oh dear... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM[/quote]Oh dear...! Have you recognised your brother as one of the anonymous backing dancers ?[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Brilliant.........................check out the hits on that video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I like it!I played with this too: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/bigbang/huntforhiggs/index.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 Yippee!!! We're still here! I couldn't log on 'til now - that freaked me out for a while. My ironing pile has disappeared - I think it must have been one of the first things to be sucked into the black hole and managed to block it up. My bad housekeeping has saved the planet[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 [quote user="TWINKLE"]Yippee!!! My bad housekeeping has saved the planet[:)][/quote]Have you seen my cat ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 If my ironing reappears I'll have a look in the pile for your cat Clair!Just found out that the project leader of the LHC, Dr Lyndon Evans is a Valleys boy - so that explains while we're still here then[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valB Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I was sat in my kitchen waiting for the switch to be thrown. I was dying to go to the toilet for a tinkle but thought to myself No way am I ending my days being flushed down the loo and also I had not finished my cuppa either. They could have done it a lot later in the day when I had showered and I could have put some slap on as well just in case I was goiing somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Has the large Hadron collider destroyed the world?Click here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkkent Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 [quote user="Clair"][quote user="TWINKLE"]Yippee!!! My bad housekeeping has saved the planet[:)][/quote]Have you seen my cat ?[/quote]I think a Mr Schroedinger took it away in a box.How do we know that the universe wasn't destroyed and we are all now existing in a parallel universe identical to the original (but with missing socks restored)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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