How the Large Hadron Collider Might Change the Web

All that physics data will make it to the world, assuming nothing goes horribly wrong with the experiment.

A great BBC dramatization (great from the Sci-Fi fan perspective) aired in the US on National Geographic channel, around 2005, called "End Day" (video now posted on Google - there's even a Wikipedia entry for End Day), that predicts a giant black hole will result and engulf NYC along with the rest of the world.

Like the guy from the NYS Lottery commercial here in the US says, "Hey, you never know."

But on the serious side, I'd like to see more of this basic science being done here in the US as well (a Texas project comes to mind), to keep up with the CERN work.

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Not to worry, some people are also firmly convinced that perpetual motion and over-unity are possible. Actual scientists are not worried and neither am I about the hadron collider.

If people actually bothered to look at the science and physics behind things they wouldn't suffer such uneducated knee-jerk reactions, but I suppose people have to have SOMETHING to complain about (and what could be better than the end of the world).

Someone's going to need a lot of storage racks for that many DVD's!!

Sounds like a good business to be in supplying DVD storage racks.

Yes, where exactly are they going to store this data???

The power of the grid will become apparent this summer after what scientists at Cern have termed their "red button" day - the switching-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the universe. The grid will be activated at the same time to capture the data it generates.

Super Internet Grid to Be Switched on Along With Large Hadron Collider, Also Used to Transmit Holographic Images