The End of the World is Nigh!

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Originally Posted by timeshifter

It's en route, actually.

And no, I'm not kidding. The good folks at Reddit sent him a red crowbar, head crab puppet, and HL2 strategy guide with the directions "Give these to Gordon Freeman. He'll know what to do."

And yes, if memory serves me, that's actually his name.

here's the link:
http://blog.reddit.com/2008/09/crowb...-strategy.html

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Boo! I wantz HL2 news!! :cry:

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Originally Posted by Foxer

Relatively speaking, if I was a scientist watching something the speed of light hit something going the speed of light, I'm not caring what the particles are perceiving - I'm looking at a relative collision speed of 2x the speed of light! Fox Theorum™

That's awesome!

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I do believe collision speed conveys only the potential energy of the combined speeds. They won't be colliding at nearly 2xc they be colliding at nearly c. If they were colliding at any higher speed the particles would not exist as they would need an infinite mass.

it's simple physics:
If you hit another car head on and you are both going 70mph, you aren't going to go flying out your window at 140mph. You only have the energy from your half of the collision (assuming equal masses)

It's the same with the protons.two hitting head on is the same as one hitting an immovable object.

O NOES!!! :eek:

Oh noes(!) Now let's move on with our lives.

Dunno if this has been posted before, but here's two webcams overlooking the facility and the main part of the LHC:
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Pretty interesting.

That's just great. :mad: No more watching people running for their lives as the world is sucked in by a micro wormole. :rolleyes:

While the rest of us go

http://icanhascheezburger.files.word...ng-chicken.jpg

Oh noez!