Oh yes, there is a real LHC upgrade programme. And the International Linear Collider as the next generation machine, but that would need a straight bit of track.
But you forget that he is the cleverest cat in the whole wide world. When I get home he is intent on discussing the finer points of the phenomenology of minimum bias events, while all I want to do is slump down in front of an episode of True Blood.
emily_shore wrote: "And you haven't managed to destroy the world yet!"
That's just an observer effect. We're in one of those 1-in-10^100 (and becoming steadily sparser) probability worlds where, by incredible coincidence, not one collision has produced a black hole yet.
They should build the LHC successor on the M25. If that one does produce a world-destroyer, at least we'll have the long awaited fitting conclusion to Good Omens.
That's just an observer effect. We're in one of those 1-in-10^100 (and becoming steadily sparser) probability worlds
If those were the probabilities, then we'd almost certainly be alive in a world where the black hole was crunching its way though continental Europe right now. I think we'd have noticed: www.cern.ch (and my computer jobs at CERN) are still there.
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Date: 2010-04-01 03:23 pm (UTC)That's just an observer effect. We're in one of those 1-in-10^100 (and becoming steadily sparser) probability worlds where, by incredible coincidence, not one collision has produced a black hole yet.
They should build the LHC successor on the M25. If that one does produce a world-destroyer, at least we'll have the long awaited fitting conclusion to Good Omens.
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Date: 2010-04-01 03:35 pm (UTC)If those were the probabilities, then we'd almost certainly be alive in a world where the black hole was crunching its way though continental Europe right now. I think we'd have noticed: www.cern.ch (and my computer jobs at CERN) are still there.
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