Out of interest, does anyone know when they're first scheduled to do any colliding ? Apparently estimates are that they might have beams going in both directions by this evening, but I assume that actual collisions will be some time in the future.
Oh. Yes. Thanks :) I looked at that page and managed to completely miss that information. Or maybe it wasn't yet there when I looked. Almost certainly the former.
I must admit, while I found it on that page a few days ago, I could only find it today by searching for the word 'October' (I could remember the month but not the day).
(Oh, and of course "distant sun" by crowded house - though I think you're missing a word)
Well, I've only ever heard it sung by the former (the other brother always harmonises on 'whenever I am by your side'), but that's not to say Neil's sung it by himself when I wasn't listening.
Your quote was perfectly accurate; I was apparently just remembering a different bit of the song. At around 2:44 (at least in the recording on Recurring Dream) the line is "Seven worlds will collide", but there are several will-free occurrences earlier on.
On the CERN website, which is being somewhat sluggish, unsurprisingly, the 'Official Inauguration' is on 21 October, but there's no date mentioned for the first collision. Presumably, they'll announce it now they know the thing works.
I was amused to note the BBC using the headline "Success for Big Bang experiment" when the beam first made it all the way round. OK, it was a success, but I feel the headline might have rather implied that the whole thing was finished and the Big Bang solved :)
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I looked at that page and managed to completely miss that information. Or maybe it wasn't yet there when I looked. Almost certainly the former.
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(Oh, and of course "distant sun" by crowded house - though I think you're missing a word)
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Am I missing a word ? I could be missing a couple from the beginning of the quotation, but I think of that as editing rather than missing :)
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Your quote was perfectly accurate; I was apparently just remembering a different bit of the song. At around 2:44 (at least in the recording on Recurring Dream) the line is "Seven worlds will collide", but there are several will-free occurrences earlier on.
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Presumably, they'll announce it now they know the thing works.
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Conflicting information from the Earth Advisory Board (http://qntm.org/?board).
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