the center of a blackhole would be the hottest party ever!

[rivendellrose]

So, apparently CERN's Large Hadron Collider is starting up on Wednesday. I have a sort of a morbid desire to have a "Black Hole Party" to celebrate - if only I'd realized ahead of time how close it was! We could have required all-black outfits and made up astronomically-themed cocktails.

I love when people proclaim impending doom surrounding specific incidences. It's always hilarious to watch the whole thing go all y2k on them and fizzle out into history.

...That said, am I right in thinking that Torchwood's audio is supposed to be released that day, and themed around the same collider? That ought to be... exciting... for some definition of the word, at least. ;)

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[beam-oflight.livejournal.com]

Yep, I think there's going to be a Torchwood thing...on Radio 4, which should be a laugh if it's up to it's usual standards, I think it's on at mid afternoon too. I-player ftw!

Can we have an internet Black Hole party? Or better a Higgs Boson party :D

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I shall have to find a way of convincing Radio 4 to work on my computer. Sometimes the BBC website is not so fond of Americans, but there's no way I'm missing the chance to point and laugh at Torchwood + Large Hadron Collider.

Yes! Ooo, a Higgs Boson party. I wonder what that would consist of... drinks that might or might not exist? Or maybe just might or might not be alcoholic... ;)

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

That's a recipe for trouble.

"Hey, if that drink didn't exist, then I can have another one!"

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I'm liking this plan more and more.

"Hmm. I don't think I've achieved a sufficient body of evidence that these drink are actually alcoholic. What we need is a double-blind study. Somebody get the blindfolds!"

[beam-oflight.livejournal.com]

Torchwood+the LHC is pure love! Seriously how could that go wrong. The only thing cooler would be if it was TV and they acctually went there to film it!
Yeah, you could play something similar to Russian roulette with the alcohol levels in the drink. Not sure what teh dress code would be though.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Sort of makes their usual levels of trouble-causing pale in comparison, doesn't it? Who cares about a little thing like a rift in space-time when they could be opening up a black-hole that sucks the whole world in?

Yeah, I'm stuck on the dress code, too. But a friend here at work pointed out we could put my cat in a box. XD

[beam-oflight.livejournal.com]

You just reminded me Tosh and Owen are dead, the team won't apreciate the sheer awesomeness of tehLHC without Tosh :'(


Well, people could go as elementary particles, not sure how that would work for most of them, but quarks (and anti-quarks) have colours right?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. I keep getting excited about the stupid audio, and then getting sad again when I realize they won't be there! It's awful! I want my Tosh and Owen back!

Ooo, can I remember them? Up, down, left, right, and... charmed and strange? My chemistry lab partner and I nicknamed ourselves Charmed and Strange, because... well, "strange" probably applied equally to both of us. ♥

(Shoot, I'm wrong. The Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark) says it's Up, Down, Charmed, Strange, and Top and Bottom. I guess chemistry really was a long time ago, for me...)

I'm dumb. I just saw that they have color *and* flavor. Nifty!

[beam-oflight.livejournal.com]

I love quarks, and your chemistry class sounds, so much better than mine.

How about an encompassing LHC party, come as something from which ever project you think is teh coolest - then even teh string theorists will be happy, strangely dressed, but then so would everyone be :)

But still, now I want it to be wednesday so much. How much does it suck that I have half a day of Physics tomorrow, and only 35 minutes on wednesday!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

...Oh, man. I don't think much of String Theory as a viable scientific theory, but I would totally want to wear a 1920s flapper dress (the kind with all the string fringe, you know?) and go as String Theory. That'd be so awesome.

Lol. Your class schedule sounds really complicated to me - in the US, most people don't get that kind of nutty schedule until university. The worst we had at my high school was remembering if it was an "A" day or a "B" day (two sets of classes, alternating).

[beam-oflight.livejournal.com]

Yeah String Theory does sound a bit wishy-washy, I went to this science work shop at a university for a day a few years ago, and the people running it, were all like, yeah, string theorist are just lazy.

Just realised we can flavour the drinks like quarks, I so want this party now, maybe I can convince one of my physics teachers (failing that maths)to let me bring in LHC thmed cakes or something.

It's beter now, now I only have 4 main subjects, one optional subject, and they have to fit in a lesson of general studies and PSD (personal, social development), where as previously I had something like 12 subjects timetabled. I think I'd die of bordom if I had the same subjects of alternate days!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

It sounds good, but... really, that's not a very good argument for a scientific theory. And it's pretty shady whether any of it could possibly be proven, from what I've seen, so... *Shrugs* Yeah, I'd probably tend to agree with the people running that conference you went to.

Guava should figure in one of the flavors. It's such an odd-tasting fruit. Oh, and lychee!

We had 8 subjects, 4 per day, so... yeah, it got a bit tedious sometimes. And if you don't like a subject, 85 minutes is a long time to sit in one class... but it was nice for the ones you liked, at least. I liked my university's scheduling much better - only 3 courses at a time, but a lot more variability in scheduling, and walking between locations like you're doing. It makes life a lot less boring.

In fairness to the US system, I should say that "private" (public in the UK) schools over here at least sometimes have systems like what you have. I went to a school like that in New Hampshire for a while, and we only had 3 classes, with a large campus to walk across and a lot of mixing up the schedule. It's just the state-run schools that are boring, probably. ;)

(...My attention span = nil today, apparently, I should add that I was there for summer courses - only 3 classes was not a normal course-load for that school!)

[beam-oflight.livejournal.com]

And if you're dressed as a quark, you can only drink the right flavour, and you play games in which you all have to combine to make the nuclei of differnt atoms - nerdgasm! :P...too far?

Well I'm at a state school, it's a grammar school which means it's selective, but it's still state run. My friend at another school used to have such a complex timetable, they would have alternate weeks!


I was going to say, 3 lessons ?!?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Lol. Maybe if you combine it with Twister somehow?

I imagine the alternating weeks thing would get really confusing sometimes. I still have nightmares that I've had a class that I for some reason forgot to go to...

Yeah, that probably wouldn't work so well, at least not until university...

[beam-oflight.livejournal.com]

Lol, and only the Ups and Downs can stay up for long enough, because the other configurations collapse too quickly :D

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Twister with a timer. Now that's evil. XD

[lovelies.livejournal.com]

Heh, I thought it was last Wednesday. All week I've been thinking 'well, nothing happened then'.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Nope, still plenty of time for the end of the world. ;)

[irishninja.livejournal.com]

Yay supercolliders and portents of DOOM! :D

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

It's all sort of awesome, isn't it? I just love predictions of world-ending doom when they make no sense at all. :)