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^hahaha :lol: Well, I don't think I'd ever mind that from happening! :wacky:

^Where did you hear that?

Hehe, funny you're enjoying it. Thought most foreigners wouldn't like it for some reason. Cool though and glad you took an interest in it. :D Man, Arabic grammar is really tough. I used to struggle with it a bit in my earlier school years but ended up liking it the most after some years. If it gets taught in a simple and clear way along with the teacher being pretty excellent at it you won't get any problems. And btw, which grammar subject are you at now? And regarding the difficulties of the different pronunciations, I admit, to have to adapt to hearing Lebanese then Algerian and then Bahranian is indeed hard. All are three compeletly different accents. However, if they only talk in formal Arabic you won't find much difference. Find it weird that they don't too hmm, maybe you should ask them to do that, talking in formal Arabic that is. Hehe And hey you could practice some of your Arabic with me if you want. :P Oh have you ever been introduced to the englishenised form of Arabic with numbers and all? Hehe. It's mostly used online so we wouldn't have to change languages a lot. Basically, we type words in the same exact way we pronounce them, only it's done in English. And we type in numbers to replace the Arabic letters that can't be found in English. I would tell you which numbers is which but unfortunately I don't have the Arabic letters on this laptop. Will do it some other time on my PC, if you want. :D

^You take Arabic, huh? How do you see it so far, pretty difficult or not?

CERN scientists switch on the Big Bang machine Mark Henderson, Science Editor, in Geneva (Martial Trezzini/EPA) The magnet core of the Large Hadron Collider The biggest and most expensive civilian experiment in the history of science is finally underway. At 9.25am UK time, the control room at the CERN laboratory erupted into cheers and applause as a pair of dots on a computer screen showed that a beam of particles had successfully completed its first lap of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the £3.6 billion “Big Bang machine” that will open a new window on the Universe. It took less than an hour to guide the stream of particles around its inaugural circuit: the first protons had been fired into the 27km ring at 8.32am. “Thank you, thank you everyone,” said Lyn Evans, project leader of the LHC, as the beam finished its first lap. Almost an hour earlier, scientists endured an anxious 48-second wait between the generation of the first pulse of protons, and a tiny flash of light on a screen that showed the beam had made it around the first 3km of the ring. The LHC team then steered the beam of protons around the entire circuit, stopping it at points along the way to correct their aim. By 8.55am, the beam was half way around, passing through the first four of the atom-smasher’s eight sectors. “Wow!” Dr Evans exclaimed, as it emerged that the beam had completed its first half-lap just 23 minutes after the insertion process began. “The beam is now half way around the LHC, and it’s been through two experiments, ALICE and CMS. CMS has seen some beautiful tracks. We’ve now stopped the beam and we’re making some corrections, and then we’ll move around octant by octant. We’ve got four more to do. At the rate we’re going, within an hour we’ll have the beam all around the LHC.” Beam-stoppers - absorbing blocks with the diameter of a 50p piece - were being used to prevent the beam from passing too far along the vacuum tube, before scientists think they have pointed it correctly. These were being progressively removed, until protons could circulate. The LHC’s clockwise beam has been inserted first, to be followed by the anti-clockwise beam with which it will eventually collide to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang. Scientists will also attempt to “capture” the beam, so that it fires in neat 2mm pulses. Lyn Evans, the LHC project leader, started the process at 9.15 with the words: “Let’s get started, everybody.” He said: “We have a beam already at the entrance to the LHC, and in a few minutes we’ll remove the absorber block the beam is hitting, and start taking it around octant-by-octant. We’ll then make any adjustments we need.” The first beam process took 12 hours when the LHC’s predecessor, the Large Electron-Positron Collider, was switched on. Dr Evans said: “How long it’ll take I don’t know. I hope the LHC will be much faster.” It turned out to be much, much faster, taking just 53 minutes. Robert Aymar, director of Cern, said the day brought a “mixture of pleasure and hope,” in an address to the control room staff immediately before the switch-on. “Today is a big day for Cern and the LHC. Everything is ready for us to succeed. Bravo everyone, and good luck. It will go well, I’m sure. Thanks to everyone.” There were some last-minute nerves as an electrical storm on Monday evening caused a loss of power to some of the cooling systems that keep the LHC’s superconducting magnets chilled to -271C. These had been restored by late last night, allowing the “first beam” day to begin on schedule.

Hmm, jumped from second floor when I was in 2nd grade. Wasn't trying to kill myself or anything hehe, was only trying a stunt out to show my friends. Though I did end up getting injured! What's the deal with Coldplay's outfit, the Viva La Vida ones? :P

Just saw this! Hahaha, brilliant! :lol:

Think it deserves to be mentioned here :D - http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49701.

Hehe, yep. Can't wait too! :P

Ah, I see now.

Yep, read that. And actually heard that it's been running for a while, in tests, too. So not sure what is exactly happening tomorrow that is of in any difference. Hmm

Can't friggin wait for the results! Ahh! :wideeyed::dance: And I agree about those physicians hehe. Just too silly to even consider, the experiment causing the end of the world that is. ---- Some info from CERN's site: The Large Hadron Collider Our understanding of the Universe is about to change... The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionise our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe. Two beams of subatomic particles called 'hadrons' – either protons or lead ions – will travel in opposite directions inside the circular accelerator, gaining energy with every lap. Physicists will use the LHC to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, by colliding the two beams head-on at very high energy. Teams of physicists from around the world will analyse the particles created in the collisions using special detectors in a number of experiments dedicated to the LHC. There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions, but what's for sure is that a brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator, as knowledge in particle physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe. For decades, the Standard Model of particle physics has served physicists well as a means of understanding the fundamental laws of Nature, but it does not tell the whole story. Only experimental data using the higher energies reached by the LHC can push knowledge forward, challenging those who seek confirmation of established knowledge, and those who dare to dream beyond the paradigm. How the LHC works The LHC, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, is the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex. It mainly consists of a 27 km ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way. Inside the accelerator, two beams of particles travel at close to the speed of light with very high energies before colliding with one another. The beams travel in opposite directions in separate beam pipes – two tubes kept at ultrahigh vacuum. They are guided around the accelerator ring by a strong magnetic field, achieved using superconducting electromagnets. These are built from coils of special electric cable that operates in a superconducting state, efficiently conducting electricity without resistance or loss of energy. This requires chilling the magnets to about ‑271°C – a temperature colder than outer space! For this reason, much of the accelerator is connected to a distribution system of liquid helium, which cools the magnets, as well as to other supply services. Thousands of magnets of different varieties and sizes are used to direct the beams around the accelerator. These include 1232 dipole magnets of 15 m length which are used to bend the beams, and 392 quadrupole magnets, each 5–7 m long, to focus the beams. Just prior to collision, another type of magnet is used to 'squeeze' the particles closer together to increase the chances of collisions. The particles are so tiny that the task of making them collide is akin to firing needles from two positions 10 km apart with such precision that they meet halfway! All the controls for the accelerator, its services and technical infrastructure are housed under one roof at the CERN Control Centre. From here, the beams inside the LHC will be made to collide at four locations around the accelerator ring, corresponding to the positions of the particle detectors.

Never mind. :D

Ohhhhhh, this is tomorrow!!! Ahhh how bloody hell exciting!! :dance::dance: Seriously, this is so cool!

Nope. It's not tomorrow. None of the signs have occurred yet. But then again we could never really know. hehe

Would say that myself now. It's not the best fiction novel out there, I know, but it's still very enjoyable and exciting to read. And my credit goes to Dan Brown's novels for getting me to learn many things about brotherhoods, symbols, along with some scientific knowledge. Plus I just don't think anyone would get bored reading this or DVC or at least I think so!

Have never tasted them but I know I won't even dare put that Aniseed-flavoured one in my mouth! So fruit salad for me! :D

Yep, would say left too.

Ohhh Solomon Key, yes!! :dance: Wonder how is that going to turn out! I remember playing an online DVC game that you could answer using the book's cover and its hidden codes! It was supposed to reveal stuff from The Solomon Key. So cool, that was! :cool:

Oh I have to disagree with that. I think he looks hot with that haircut! :D I just love him. :nice: Though he didn't very well in the acting in DVC. Really hope he does better in A&D!

I got to learn a lot of things along with DVC as well. I just didn't leave anything hanging. I searched and searched and read until I knew every aspect by heart hehe. Crazy time! :D And that was the case with A&D too, though it was more with DVC. Oh and which comes as a fave for you after these two? I haven't read anything else by Dan Brown. Here's the code for the spoiler: :wink:

Think you should put those ambigrams into a spoiler or smth to not ruin things for others who haven't read it yet. :) And yes, I do like this book quite a bit. All the scientific aspects of it that were the most exciting for me. The bomb for example! Wooh! And it seems the movie will be released on 15th May! Which is four days earlier from DVC's relase date!! (DVC was released on 19th May :P) I have to admit, I was a bit too obsessed with it, DVC that is! :D And I happen to like it a lot more than Angels & Demons. I've come to read DVC before A&D which could be one of the reasons for preferring it more. And also, I didn't like A&D's ending that much. It was a little disappointing, if you ask me. :-/ The adventure as a whole was brilliant, nevertheless! Hope the movie turns out to be a success! And seems like the actress who plays Vittoria is very suiting for the role. Hope she does a great job at it.

Those are lufffly, Ella! :nice: Thanksss!

Haha! :lol: Which part of England do people talk like that exactly?

Heat... Heat... and more HEAT! Argh! :sick: