Big Bang Experiment

[karlhenning]

I keep reading the title of this thread as Big Band Experiment

[marvinbrown]

Ooops! 

  See this is what I am talking about....we (humans) are our worst enemy!

  marvin

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Ooops! 

[mahler10th]

Yes indeed.  The camera has skipped time (because of the geophysical changes underground near Geneva causing massive magnetic disruptions around the area there) and is actually showing us what will happen in February next year.   

[greg]

Ooops! 

ha! 

So when are we going to learn the results of the data? I'm dying to know.......

[Wanderer]

ha! 

So when are we going to learn the results of the data?

Not very soon, I'd say.

LHC

[greg]

Ugh.

[Joe_Campbell]

So it's 1.9 Kelvin above absolute zero, which means 1.9 degrees Celsius above absolute zero.

How irritating! If someone doesn't know the relationship between Kelvin and Celsius, what are the chances that they'll know what absolute zero is? It makes more sense to say ~-271.25 degrees C.

[mahler10th]

ha! 

So when are we going to learn the results of the data? I'm dying to know.......

February next year.

[greg]

February next year.

is that a random guess? 
if not, thanks for telling me!

[Wanderer]

Ugh.

I know but, then, there will be tons of data that will have to be analyzed in multiple ways and different concurrently running expirements, each looking for different things. I expect we'll have to wait a bit but the rewards will be plenty in the end. 

is that a random guess? 

Nah, just an end-of-the-world joke. These kind of doomsday predictions are so far proferred by obscure messianic suicide cults but maybe the LHC is an excellent opportunity for like-minded atheists to step up and steal their thunder.

[mahler10th]

The analysis and ongoing experiements will bring results early next year, head of the team says probably February - ish.

[Opus106]

How irritating! If someone doesn't know the relationship between Kelvin and Celsius, what are the chances that they'll know what absolute zero is? It makes more sense to say ~-271.25 degrees C.

That is extremely sloppy on astronomy.com/Matt Quandt's part. They are usually quite reliable, but this is terrible, especially when you think of those not in the know quoting this information elsewhere.