A different kind of LHC
Next week is the steemSTEM meetup at the LHC or the Large Hadron Collider and I am really stoked to be there!
I was talking about the meetup with @suesa, as she will attend too, and she told me about how she googled it to get some info before we go there. It is, after all, not an every day topic!
But when she googled it, she noticed something weird. Google was suggesting the words, like usual but ... it didn't seem quite right! She was sure the LHC was called "Large Hadron Collider", as a hadron ...
... is a composite particle made of quarks held together by the strong force in a similar way as molecules are held together by the electromagnetic force.
Wikipedia
So it totally made sense. But why did google then propose she'd look for the ...
Large Hardon Collider ?!
Questioning herself, she believed in google and clicked it. Just to be met with mockery.
So it was "Large Hadron Collider" all along. But apparently, the mistake of switching the "d" and "r" happened enough to cause google to recommend it to people.
We both laughed about it but then started to imagine what a "Large Hardon Collider" might look like.
And we laughed some more.
And then I told @klye , who laughed too and promptly illustrated it for our and your viewing pleasure:
--- When two large hardons collide, they make a big, slimy mess and a lot of science is being conducted. ---
Sounds like a fun time, would love to check out LHC, nice to hear of some good interpersonal interactions with steem!!
What the hell is this and why are we not funding it?
I could think of some reasons not to xD
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Thank you for the honorable mentions and allowing me to illustrate the large hardon collider! <3
I do art commissions folks! Need an expert MS-paint artist to make your
perversionsvisions a reality? You know who to get. ;)That was hilarious! It gave me a really good laugh!
"Dear lord, thank you for putting paint and @klye together sometime in recent history"
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@yesaye was trying to organize an mspaint storytelling collaboration, you are always welcome
Well done posting this, under "SteemSTEM" and "science" tags and all :D
I love this idea. Large hardon collider. This was the term which made me learn how to correctly write large hardon collider.
I had to google the image, as already few years ago I happened to see a photo of similar topic:
I do not know the original source of the photo, but here you go. This is what I grew up with.
This is why I'm an engineer.
This actually hurt me a bit, physically.
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No pain no gain.
That is so painful to watch!
Well close your eyes and enjoy the feeling!
Noooooo! :D
Oh yeeees! ;)
I was tempted to answer 'Oh noooo'... but well :)
Try to search large hardon collider under google trends.
You get this:
There is a good reason for that.
See this data table:
https://rio.jrc.ec.europa.eu/en/country-analysis/Finland/key-indicators/26163
We can see Finland clearly has above EU average % of Engineers and Scientists - and they have all their secret fetishes.
That explains a lot. But I was curious, had to go deeper and thought, they clearly must be interested in studying big bang. So I put big bang in google trends and this is what came up.
I am from Finland and all I do is search for penis colliders all day.
Hahahahaha you broke me!
😱😱😱😂🤣🤣
I'm using this post to live out my inner child. Hope you don't collide with the Toms of Finland
Inner child.. large hardons.
Do you want to talk about it?
Nice post and I'm super jealous that you are going to the LHC. Also, the story you outlined above is another great reason why we just can't simply trust the information given to us by the almighty algorithms. I've even had google return totally incorrect math to me. lol - Always double check what you're told! ;)
I don't know how to feel about this post...
So here's a fun fact : Richard Dawkins once misspelled in the same way the full name of the LHC in one of his books, unfortunately it was corrected before publishing.
Awww that is sad. BBC did the same thing, but live:
Lol, I love how he emphasized the word "smasher" XD
Is it really in Switzerland? I heard they moved it.
How would they move a huge ring under the earth xD
I do not know. But I think it is in Austria now.
It is pretty hard to move that thing ;)
I guess I was just confused. It does seems permanent.
Steemfest 3, hardons in Switzerland!