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CERN Announces Collider Startup Delay
perturbed1 writes "The 142nd session of the CERN Council saw Organizational Director General Robert Aymar announcing a delay in the activation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The installation will start up in May 2008, taking 'the first steps towards studying physics at a new high-energy frontier.' Such a delay was foreseen due to the quadrupole accident, which we've previously discussed. This gives extra time for Fermilab physicists to try to understand the latest interesting hints of the Higgs boson, as well as give much needed extra-time for the detectors at CERN to get ready for data taking. Given that it will be fall before the LHC detectors take any useful data from collisions at 14TeV, could Fermilab collect enough data for a 5-sigma discovery by then?"
Yup, which suggests that discovering it, and understanding it, may give us some control over mass and inertia.. or, to put that in layman's terms: anti-gravity. A nice infinite source of free energy might be in there too. Who knows.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I'd love for the scientists at Fermilab to make this sort of breakthrough before the LHC goes live, ...
/., the parts of the LHC that caused the delay were designed by Fermilab ;-)
Well, Fermilab has already made the first step towards this goal.
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Georg
Judging by the fourteen glowing reviews posted since the beginning of this month I'm sure that the launch of the innovative iPhone technology will surely solve all of CERN's problems.
Or at least let them watch YouTube while waiting for repairs.
Three Squirrels
Naturally. You know either where the LHC is located, or when it will start, but not both.
What about hookers and beer?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Well, time does slow down when you're moving close to the speed of light ...
A-Bomb
Physicists get hadrons!
Those who anthropomorphize science and/or nature already believe in an intelligent designer.
You're about to observe a quantum state. Cancel and allow?