The Large Hadron Collider Drinking Game

[spencer]

Take a drink of your favorite beverage whenever one of the following occurs:

■ A proton crosses the border between Switzerland and France.

■ A magnet quench in a superconducting magnet causes all the liquid helium to boil away.

■ A Higgs boson is detected (2 drinks).

■ Scientists learn the secrets of the universe and go insane (2 drinks).

■ A miniature black hole forms (2 drinks if it absorbs Switzerland).

■ Strange matter is created (weird, unusual or eccentric matter doesn't count).

■ A petabyte of data is generated.

■ Someone sings the chorus of the LHC Rap.

■ The Super Proton Synchrotron reaches 300 gigavolts (2 drinks if it hits 400 GeV).

■ The Compact Muon Solenoid finds something that completely alters our understanding of the fundamental forces of the universe.

■ Flight 19 suddenly appears over Geneva.

■ Particle superpartners are found to have natural supersymmetry.

■ An intern confuses muons with gluons.

■ The experiment goes awry and someone ends up with superpowers.

■ Aliens show up and make us turn off the LHC before we implode reality.

■ Scientists go back in time (2 drinks if they create a paradox).

■ Someone says "Big Bang."

■ Particles crash into each other (2 drinks if there are Batman-tyle visual sound effects, like "Pow!" and "Zap!" when it happens).

■ Someone says, "What's a hadron?"

■ Scientists access another dimension (2 drinks if that dimension is occupied entirely by Donna Summer impersonators; 3 drinks if denizens of said dimension eat the scientists; note that these two conditions are not mutually exclusive).

■ Someone on TV questions the amount of money spent to build the LHC.

■ Someone on TV worries that the LHC will destroy the world.

■ The world ends (drink whatever you have left).

■ Scientists prove string theory (3 drinks because we'll all pretty much have to take their word for it).

■ Someone uses the term "beam pipe" in a pickup line.

[CharmQuark]

A miniature black hole forms (2 drinks if it absorbs Switzerland).

My fav \o/

[CharmQuark]

bring it on

[Stephen]

■ A miniature black hole forms (2 drinks if it absorbs Switzerland).
■ Aliens show up and make us turn off the LHC before we implode reality.
■ Scientists go back in time (2 drinks if they create a paradox).

Best ones by far.

[annewalter]

Whoa! I almost laugh while reading the thread. Indeed, unifying the scientific ideas of development is a task that science and religion have been incapable of achieving so far. But anything may change, thanks to a discovery by Fermilab in Illinois of what might actually be the “God particle”. With the Tevatron Large Hadron Collider, Fermilab found a group of the elusive Higgs boson particle that has continued to be invisible to human understanding for millions of years. Here is the proof: Higgs boson breakthrough hailed as window unto creation. You can check that out for the details.