A Detailed Profile of the Hadron Super Collider

davco9200 writes "The New York Times has up a lengthy profile of the Large Hadron Collider. The article covers the basics (size = 17 miles, cost = 8 billion, energy consumption = 14 trillon electron volts) and history but also provides interesting interviews of the scientists who work with the facility every day. The piece also goes into some detail on the expected experiments. 'The physicists, wearing hardhats, kneepads and safety harnesses, are scrambling like Spiderman over this assembly, appropriately named Atlas, ducking under waterfalls of cables and tubes and crawling into hidden room-size cavities stuffed with electronics. They are getting ready to see the universe born again.' There are photos, video and a nifty interactive graphic."

Comments

Cool

[grub]

They are getting ready to see the universe born again.

It's like having a Tivo with a 6,000 year replay capacity!

Re:Cool

[sentientbeing]

Theyre stating the obvious about the daily workwear though, I thought.
 
- When youre creating a captive mini black hole on Earth I would have thought hard hats and steel toecapped boots would be a MINIMUM safety requirement.

Re:Cool

[CelticWhisper]

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH...

Compact?!

[TheWoozle]

"Above is one of the collider's massive particle detectors, called the Compact Muon Solenoid"

I'd hate to see the Large Muon Solenoid!

Thank goodness there's no typo

[Nimey]

I don't even want to think about a hardon supercollider.

Re:Thank goodness there's no typo

[Anonymous Coward]

For a minute, I thought "Hardon Super Collider" was the name of the Japanese version of "America's Funniest Home Videos".