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hue

(4,949 posts) Thu Mar 29, 2012, 10:39 AM Mar 2012

CERN News - LHC to run at 4 TeV per beam in 2012 (next week!!)

Next week at the LHC!! Get ready!!

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CERN News - LHC to run at 4 TeV per beam in 2012 (next week!!) (Original Post) hue Mar 2012 OP

Oh boy! Mini-Black Holes and Strangelets longship Mar 2012 #1

K&R Lionel Mandrake Mar 2012 #2

Start the countdown to the apocalypse TruthBeTold65 Mar 2012 #3

And we know what happens next... Dead_Parrot Mar 2012 #4

Go-go Gordon Freeman sakabatou Mar 2012 #5

longship

(40,416 posts)

1. Oh boy! Mini-Black Holes and Strangelets

Reply to hue (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 11:15 AM

Mar 2012

Just kidding.

Actually the black holes would be awesome because that would mean extra dimensions in the universe. (Don't ask me how we'd know that; it's what the theoreticians are saying.)

Lionel Mandrake

(4,076 posts)

2. K&R

Reply to hue (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:02 PM

Mar 2012

These are exciting times in particle physics. Once the Higgs question is answered, either way, theorists will go wild and spew out a great many papers.