08/08/08 08:08:08

[Codename067]

Wow, really interesting post JD. I read everything about the H. Collider...very interesting indeed.
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The Collider"
The collider basically consists of a ring of supercooled magnets 17 miles in circumference attached to huge barrel-shaped detectors.

When it is at full power, two beams of protons will race around the huge ring 11,000 times a second in opposite directions. They will travel in two tubes and speed through a vacuum that is colder and emptier than outer space.

Large detectors and cameras will collect data as the protons collide and 15 petabytes of data will be collected each year equivalent to a pile of CDs 12miles tall"

Now thats something.

Quick referecnce, lets see if I get it right.

1,000 MB = 1 GB
1,000 GB = 1 TB
1,000 TB = 1 PB

15 Peta bytes = 15360 Thousand Terabytes, 15,728640 Million Gigabytes, and 16,106127360 Billion Megabytes....just wow. CRAZY amounts of Data.

Now thats freaking insane.

[Jeff_T]

I hope they never divide by 0 around this collider.... I think that would end the universe

[Johnny_D]

I hope they never divide by 0 around this collider.... I think that would end the universe

I'm actually going todo that on the day & time it's first proper run, you know, just for shits and giggles

[Snoopy1966]

We are all still here yet

[Giant Ninja Robot]

I dunno Snoop I saw the world explode yesterday didn't you?

[avtomat]

looks like we get to live to see another day!

[Spotless]

just at test the end of the world is still yet to come either next month with the first run through or 2012