December 21 2012 CERN LHC

[b4rk3r]

Anybody else slightly worried about the final and biggest experiment by CERN falling on December 21 ?
I have no time for these theories, but this has got to me :s
Comfort me....

[davepoth]

b4rk3r said:

Anybody else slightly worried about the final and biggest experiment by CERN falling on December 21 ?
I have no time for these theories, but this has got to me :s
Comfort me....

The Mayan "Long Count" is merely a division of time.

Representation  Long Count subdivisions  Days  ~ solar years
0.0.0.0.1  1 k'in                          1         1/365
0.0.0.1.0  1 winal = 20 k'in          20        0.055
0.0.1.0.0  1 tun = 18 winal          360       0.986
0.1.0.0.0  1 k'atun = 20 tun          7,200     19.71
1.0.0.0.0  1 b'ak'tun = 20 k'atun          144,000   394.3

The 21st of December takes us from 12.19.17.19.19 over to 13.0.0.0.0. It's a day for celebration in Mayan culture, much like the millenium was for us.

[Galileo]

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/lhc/Safety-en....

I'm more inclined to believe the boffins rather than the brain-dead scare mongers.

[Jinx]

davepoth said:

The Mayan "Long Count" is merely a division of time.

Representation  Long Count subdivisions  Days  ~ solar years
0.0.0.0.1  1 k'in                          1         1/365
0.0.0.1.0  1 winal = 20 k'in          20        0.055
0.0.1.0.0  1 tun = 18 winal          360       0.986
0.1.0.0.0  1 k'atun = 20 tun          7,200     19.71
1.0.0.0.0  1 b'ak'tun = 20 k'atun          144,000   394.3

The 21st of December takes us from 12.19.17.19.19 over to 13.0.0.0.0. It's a day for celebration in Mayan culture, much like the millenium was for us.

Isn't the 12 b'ak'tun the last though? So it's going to hit 0.0.0.0.0 and all the aeroplanes will fall out of the sky, nuclear missles launched, Elvis back from the dead just like in 2000?

NB -some of that might not have happened in 2000 but given the state of my memory these days I can't be sure which.

Edited by Jinx on Friday 7th December 15:01

[Galileo]

[annodomini2]

No where near enough energy to do anything serious, The 'little boy' bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 67 TJ, 6.7 x 10^13 (and that was a small one (in explosive terms)), CERN peak is around 350 MJ, or 3.5 x 10^8.

[fadeaway]

b4rk3r said:

the final and biggest experiment by CERN

by "final" and "biggest" you mean before they close it down, upgrade it, and power it back up to do "more" and "bigger" experiments

[Some Gump]

fadeaway said:

by "final" and "biggest" you mean before they close it down, upgrade it, and power it back up to do "more" and "bigger" experiments

No, it realy is final., Never to be repeated. One time only. Never happening again. Just like this weeken's SCS sale.

[hornet]

I took the radical step of actually looking at the LHC schedule for 2012 :-

https://espace.cern.ch/be-dep/BEDepartmentalDocume...

No tests schedule for the 21st. Whole thing seems to have sprung from an April 1st blog post at Categorists.com, although the links are now dead. The alternative media, being the open minded truth seekers that they are, completely failed to check the CERN schedule and just went straight into panic mode. Classic example of blog posts using other completely uncredited blog posts as "evidence" and ignoring actual research. Some of the forum threads are brilliant, if completely insane.

Wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

Edited by hornet on Sunday 9th December 20:16

[cahami]

The problem with cern is that insurance is futile as there will never be a payout. Are they realy going for full power 2014/15?

[hornet]

cahami said:

The problem with cern is that insurance is futile as there will never be a payout. Are they realy going for full power 2014/15?

Describe, using Brian Cox where appropriate, the circumstances leading up to the collision...

Be interesting to see what they find when they turn it up to eleven.

[Laurel Green]

"Long Shutdown 1" is now happening for upgrades over the next two years--> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-2142...