I Survived the Large Hadron Collider T-Shirt

1. MrPumpernickel
   September 10th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

   Considering this was a test and not any real serious research usage I think it's too early to call. Come back with that shirt sometime early next year and we'll see if it's apt or not.

   That's a bit like printing a "I survived the first world war" t-shirt in 1916. Isn't it?

2. LV
   September 10th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

   You do realize they haven't done any collisions yet. All they did was ramp it up and set the beams. They should do a collision next month

3. Sniperman
   September 10th, 2008 at 2:38 pm

   thanks for that LV i was just about to post that.

   nothing exciting so far, i watched it live.
   all they did was pass beam 1 all the way around and then test a 2nd beam as well.

   the full test will be when they run both beams at full speed, and then crash them together, in the hopes that the energy blasts creates matter. well at least that is how i understood it.

4. sparge
   September 10th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

   http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

   Just so you know.

5. nate
   September 10th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

   Hooray for science! Even though we haven't hit full throttle with the expriement, here is My Hadron Collider wishlist:

   Parallel Universe, many of them - And they better be filled with some kick ass stuff. Like the 3 boobed woman from Total Recall, or a universe filled with people that look like H.R. Puff’n'Stuff characters.

   Black holes - Who doesn’t want to see one of these?

   Higgs boson particle - Stephen Hawking has a 100 dollar bet they won’t find it. I hope they do find it and sell it on ebay smeared on some Jesus toast. Take that Stephen.

   word.

6. sam
   September 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

   The world will end in October when they actually do some collisions.

7. Mattie
   September 10th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

   I love this paranoid crackpot idea that the world will actually somehow end because of the LHC.

   I love the tee shirt because it implies how bogus and asinine these conspiracy theories are and it's damn funny!

8. Sheldon
   September 10th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

   Me too, Mattie. Me too. If there was a possibility of destroying life as we know it, I have a feeling it either would be over now or only one man would know the secret and go live in a cave...or something.

9. CheeseDuck
   September 10th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

   The world ends in 2012 people.

10. Alex
    September 10th, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    Hello naysayers: Don't worry, if the LHC destroyed Earth in October, we'll give you a full refund!

11. ted
    September 10th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    Geez. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The 3-boobed woman from Total Recall has a name.

    Just looked it up; apparently it's Mary.

12. biltmore
    September 10th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    Oh christ, way to add to the pointless hysteria guys!!

    Even if the LHC creates a black hole, it's predicted that it will be smaller than an atom and will collapse rather quickly. Read the following excerpt for a better explanation:

    "It was originally considered that the LHC may produce micro black holes. These would be black holes smaller than atoms. Of course, knowing that a black hole is not something you want to get too close to, this drew a lot of scaremongering. The truth is that black holes must be produced at a certain size before they are capable of growing on their own by attracting more matter. That size was estimated in a recent paper to be larger than the mass of our sun. Anything smaller and they just sit there evaporating until they are no more. The smaller the hole, the faster the evaporation. We expected anything the LHC could have produced to live for a few femtoseconds before disappearing. As it turns out, another recent paper provides convincing proof that black holes are not likely to be produced at the LHC at all....

    There are other supposed dangers, namely magnetic monopoles and strangelets. In both cases the theory on which these exotic forms of matter have been based is a little crackpotish, and numerous conterarguments have been put forward. To paraphrase Prof. Frank Close of Oxford University's High Energy Physics dept, "The LHC isn't going to end the world. If it does, you can sue me.""

13. biltmore
    September 10th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    And as Sam and LV have already pointed out, the real test doesn't begin until October 21st. All they did today was turn it on and make sure that everything was running smoothly.

14. Champagrrl
    September 10th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

    Well, I have just returned from 21 October 2008 - after being caught in a loop of future time produced by the effects of the LHC, and I must inform all of you to beware; while neither Earth nor our tiny corner of the Universe suffer any devastating effects, the species Homo Sapiens is indeed now "three-nippled". Go figure - even matter-sucking black holes have a sense of humour!

15. nate
    September 10th, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    Thanks for your daring time traveling Champagrrl. We hope you brought back photos....many, many, many photos.

16. nate
    September 10th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    Oh and Ted, your research has not gone without notice.
    I will never forget her name now....Mary. Pretty boring name for a martian woman.

17. Ali S.
    September 10th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    Who knows for sure we haven't actually all been transferred to a parellel world!? Oh God! The sky is green and water tastes like Orangina!! D:

18. Netty
    September 11th, 2008 at 1:19 am

    I got myself one of these instead XD
    http://www.madscistuff.com/I-survived-the-large-hadron-collider-LHC-ex periment-t-shirt.html

19. Lasse
    September 11th, 2008 at 1:58 am

    Actually, none of you can remember it, because of the fracture in the space-time continuum caused by the LHC, but we used to have four nipples, and now we only have 2.

20. alice
    September 11th, 2008 at 6:56 am

    October the 21st? Oh good, if anything bad does happen, least I would've had my birthday.

    You better ship to the UK, 'cause I'm so requesting a tshirt for my birthday

21. ted
    September 11th, 2008 at 6:58 am

    Thanks, nate. Your acknowledgement makes all the effort worthwhile. You don't know how many pictures of alien breasts I had to google through to get that info for you.

22. MikeK
    September 13th, 2008 at 1:04 am

    Love the idea. Please make it in some color other than white (how about a nice dark blue?) and I'm in!

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