TheDoctor Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 I get a rss feed from Dvice on current happenings in the technology world. Here is a good one. Here's one for the books. CERN's Large Hadron Collider has once again been shut down. No catastrophic helium leak or failing magnets this time. The culprit? A speck of bread, which officials believe was originally part of a larger baguette. To make it all the more ridiculous, it's thought that the piece of bread was dropped into the works by a bird. The morsel found its way into the doomsday device's outdoor machinery, sparking a temperature differential that triggered an automatic shutdown sequence. I know, I know — I'm sure that ruins all the images you had of a bird navigating the LHC's 17-mile-ring like a Death Star trench run, but there it is. The Large Hadron Collider should still get collidin' in November as planned, though it will be offline for the next few days as CERN restarts it. Unless the crumb from a worker's lunch causes the LHC to explode and destroy half the planet, that is. Epic fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki Dazrold Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Ahh, Dvice. I've seen many a messed up thing there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cirevam Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Did I already post the theory that the Higgs is traveling back in time and messing with the LHC so that it can't be discovered? Because this sounds like something Higgs would do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic322 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 whats Higgs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cirevam Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 The Higgs boson is a theoretical particle that supposedly gives matter its mass property. If we can discover and analyze it then we can understand how gravity works, perhaps even figure out how to do efficient mass-energy conversions among other things that would probably make our lives more like The Jetsons, but at this rate it's never going to happen since the bloody thing won't stop breaking. Ever notice how my sentences are always ridiculously long? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymouse Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Cirevam, not just your sentences, but your POSTS. Which some other people on RRU (not looking at anybody) certainly lack. OK, that's certainly an epic fail. Unbelievable... A crumb of bread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDoctor Posted November 14, 2009 Author Share Posted November 14, 2009 Update It was weird enough that scientists said a bird dropping a piece of bread on an electrical substation managed to shut down power to the Large Hadron Collider. Now two respected physicists are blaming that incident on a time-traveling bird, which was said to thwart the collider's mission of finding the Higgs boson, a particle thought to be the building block that gives everything in the universe its mass. Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto theorize that there's something so dangerous about the collider, time travelers are coming back to 2009 and sabotaging the experiment. They're calling it "reverse chronological causation." That's right folks, it's a bird, flying right out of the Time Tunnel, saving the universe. Or could future life forms be trying to keep us from traveling to the stars? Come to think of it, every time scientists try to capture the illusive Higgs boson, there are inexplicable failures. Twice, in 1993 and 2000, funding suddenly dried up for two separate projects. And then this Large Hadron Collider has had a series of setbacks, including one incident where a physicist was accused of terrorist activity. So what do we do, wait around until thousands of years from now to finally find out if there really is something horribly dangerous about finding the Higgs boson? Or should we go on about our business, innocently trying to stumble upon the secrets of the building blocks of the universe? Note to future humans: if you're saving us from doomsday, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDoctor Posted December 17, 2009 Author Share Posted December 17, 2009 http://dvice.com/archives/2009/12/scope-augmented.php France-based game designer Frantz Lasorne has created what may be the new standard for next generation games. His experimental, augmented reality game system called SCOPE takes real world toys and/or objects and assigns values and powers to those objects. Each piece has a different code platform attached that is readable by a connected computer. When the gamer dons the specially configured headset, the objects become fully interactive, allowing for a whole new range of gaming paradigms to be explored. You can see video of the SCOPE game system in action here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic322 Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 @ TheDoctor: That was so freaken cool and I thing it's off topic If people from the future really were going back in time to stop us then where do you think they got the technolegy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDoctor Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share Posted January 17, 2010 Sonic, it is most definitely not off topic. The topic is called LHC EPIC FAIL/Dvice feeds. That was another article I got. So, it is, in fact, on topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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