We need this one to undo the timeline shift the last one caused
We need to get the divergence number above 1.
Yeah everything’s been kinda fucked ever since, hasn’t it… i mean… it was 2008 right before obama being elected and i really don’t think the “correct” path of the future would have involved r-money or mccain winning so at least SOME shit would be the same, but still…
LHC didn’t start seriously smashing shit (beyond previous energies done by other colliders) until after 2010 though. I think everything went tits up about 2012, tbh - the year they found the Higgs Boson. I kind-of jokingly subscribe to the idea that the world ended. I mean, it just checks so many boxes to me, it truly seems that the universe as it stands right now is fundamentally different than it should be after the passing of one single decade.
okay i can DEFINITELY agree with you about 2012, shit’s been super fucking weird since SPECIFICALLY that year.
the worst day of my life was December 22nd 2012 and I remember it very clearly because I couldn’t figure out WHY.
I just felt awful to a degree i have NEVER felt before or ever again since. Not even once. Not even a little.
It was a distinct watershed moment that divided my entire life into “before” and “after”.
I figured it was just some freak hormonal imbalance that walloped me out of nowhere but it’s weird that that was the only time and that it coincided with such a distinct … difference in how the world was between ‘before that’ and ‘after that’.now, the higgs boson event was on a different date, certainly, but that day… i will never be able to forget it.
so theyre building black mesa irl?
God I love the half life universe
No it’s SERN. Obviously they’ve figured out the time travel.
gooifies your banana
goes back in time to change your gender
Yes please.
Fun fact, they were going to build one in the US crossing the borders of LA, TX, AR. They even dug out the damn hole, but they shit canned the whole project so now we’re just left with a random giant circular hole underground.
Edited AK to AR. That would have been a bit excessive.
Not quite circular, they only got 26% of the tunnel dug. Still, 23 km is quite a long tunnel to leave sitting empty
Fill it with cheese. Make another cheese vault. We require the cheese. Government cheese. Cheese.
How about one that goes around the circumference of the Earth? That would be boss.
Just go full Dyson Ring and have one in space around the sun, can even use all the surface area to power it with solar panels.
That sounds expensive.
Yeah, but you could build two for twice the price!
It’ll pay for itself with the electricity bill savings!
The transmutation circle is massive this time. We can’t fail the French-Swiss genocide.
(Btw I’ve worked on the Atlas project on the LHC, projects are always delayed)
Seems like a poor allocation of resources, they’d need a much bigger loop or much better colliders to get anything really interesting out of it
ok make it bigger then
It’s pretty hard to make a 27,000km ring
better get started then
You’ve never seen my arsehole after a night with a goth girl.
Why am I like this
So dollar for dollar, are all those colliders worth their value over say extra tenure position for scientists?
The colliders wouldn’t exist without people in the tenured position. Tenure is protection from capital interests. It’s not just a culture war thing.
I’m asking if the capital interest skew public research towards mega projects.
Yea, that is a problem just by the fact that it creates more pots of funding.
Perhaps, but we’d benefit more as a collective knowing the secrets of the cosmos.
Only if someone sticks their head in this one too
Any actual creepy stories about the LHC?
something very creep happened to me recently and idk what to make of it
what do you mean?
Aliens of course
Steins gate?
I am waiting for the day when the biggest collider first run is going to explode this planet and then earth is going to become itself a particle.
Why does future circular collider, the largest collider, not eat all the other colliders?
If I remember the smaller colliders are used to feed the LHC. Probably the same with a future collide.
This fucks, way better use of 22 billion dollars than usual
But we could kill kids in the middle east somewhere for that money!
Physics class: “Imagine a perfectly spherical cow moving on a frictionless surface…”
IDF physics class: “Imagine a perfectly spherical bomb moving towards a frictionless Palestinian hospital…”
Just toss the middle east kids in the super collider.
But that will puts dents in the super collider. Then we will need another super collider.
I see no downsides. MORE COLLIDERS.
I’d rather spend 22 billion on this than in Israel or more weapons of war
…or another feeble scheme like the 5000th pitch for a “hyper loop”
Hyperloop was known high schooler nonsense from the start, at least this will get something back, whatever it is.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Then I saw I already liked it. 15 years sounds short but it’s actually a decent amount of time.
STOP BUILDING PARTICLE ACCELERATORS. Hadrons were not meant to be collided! Years of research and no use found for particles any smaller than SAND!
But look how fast we can make those little fuckers go!
It’s just like slot car racing, round and round, but… you know… faster. And yeah, it’s more expensive than a regular slot car track, I guess. But still, those particles will beat any slot car you care to pick! So there’s that. Welllll not those fancy slot cars with them high performance motors, I mean, that’s a completely different ballgame there, we can’t compete with that.
But still, those particles whizzing around, it’s gonna be pretty cool. I reckon we should do it.
So anyway, thank you for reading my financial proposal for the SuperLHC.
They’ve played us for absolute fools.
You sound like a man who hates sand.
That sounds like something big sand would say.
BIG SAND WILL NOT STOP ME FROM EATING IT. Take this corpo fucks!
Remember when people were worried about these killing us all by creating a black hole that swallows the Earth?
Can this one just hurry up and do that please?
yeah but no
but yeah
