The incident occurred after the launch of the particle accelerator ring, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which some dubbed a "doomsday device", sources told The Courier-Mail.
It is understood the girl wanted to lose her virginity to the boy - believing that the world was about to end. picked by kakana 3 months ago

THE Large Hadron Collider will be back up and running by the third quarter of 2009 - probably.
According to an internal report sent to the physicists working on the giant particle-smasher at the CERN laboratory near Geneva in Switzerland, the LHC should be ready to collide proton beams at the end of July next year. picked by bingo 12 months ago

Have a large back yard? Have access to some massive amounts of power? Want to become an evil overlord and rule the planet? One way to start is by building your own LHC
You can obtain for free, a full technical report. 1600 pages - 115 MB of info. Please remember who got you the info. picked by bernardblack 1 year ago

If you truly believe that the Large Hadron Collider will bring about the destruction of reality as we know it then breath a sigh of relief as you've just won a stay of execution. The LHC is now not due to come back on line until autumn* this year.


*Or spring, if you're Autumn. picked by pocksucket 10 months ago

The Earth didn't move, or even twitch. And it certainly didn't end - as you can tell by the fact you are reading this. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A sleep-deprived office worker accidentally discovers a black hole and then greed gets the better of him...
Nice short movie picked by wildminou 1 year ago

There is a giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy, a study has confirmed.

The black hole is four million times heavier than our Sun, according to the paper in The Astrophysical Journal. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

The new method to create a tiny quantum sized black hole would allow researchers to better understand what physicist Stephen Hawking proposed more than 35 years ago: black holes are not totally void of activity; they emit photons, which is now known as Hawking radiation. picked by kakana 3 months ago

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a cosmic "ghost" lurking around a distant supermassive black hole. This is the first detection of such a high-energy apparition, and scientists think it is evidence of a huge eruption produced by the black hole. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

A jet of gas spewing from a huge black hole has mysteriously brightened, flaring to 90 times its normal glow. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Astronomers have used two different telescopes simultaneously to study the violent flares from the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way. They have detected outbursts from this region, known as Sagittarius A*, which reveal material being stretched out as it orbits in the intense gravity close to the central black hole. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

An electromagnetic black hole has been created for the first time. It works at microwave frequencies but it is expected to be able to eventually catch visible light as well. This would open up new possibilities for solar power cells. picked by 2manyusernames 2 months ago

The scientists, led by Sean Farrell of the University of Leicester, England, said the newly found black hole weighs more than 500 solar masses and is a missing link between lighter stellar-mass and heavier super-massive black holes. picked by kakana 5 months ago

The creation of an acoustic black hole leaves the way open for the discovery of Hawking radiation.

Yeah! picked by suebe 6 months ago

Astronomers are getting a close-up look at a cosmic eating machine: a spinning black hole that devours the mass equivalent of two Earths per hour, verging on the limit of its feeding ability. picked by bingo 6 months ago

A coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center harbors a hidden black hole surrounded by a storm of star formation.

The galaxy, called NGC 1097, is located 50 million light-years from Earth. It is spiral-shaped like our own Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Falling into a black hole might not be good for your health, but at least the view would be fine. A new simulation shows what you might see on your way towards the black hole's crushing central singularity. The research could help physicists understand the apparently paradoxical fate of matter and energy in a black hole. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Mathematical physicists at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow believe that the vast experiment at CERN, the European particle physics centre near Geneva in Switzerland, may turn out to be the world's first time machine picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

What do you get when you take not one, not four, not eight, but sixteen PS3s and chain them together like some crazy video game test center configuration for extremely lucky children? Simple: The relatively affordable power to answer the question "At what speed to vibrating black holes stop vibrating?" picked by punthe 11 months ago

Astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen "dark matter." While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago