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LHC Fully Documented Online

Posted by kdawson on from the twenty-seven-kilometers-of-documentation dept.

Physicser writes "Want to read every single technical detail of the design and construction of the Large Hadron Collider and its six detectors? The whole shebang — seven reports totaling 1600 pages, 115 MB, with contributions from 8000 scientists and engineers — has been published electronically by the Journal of Instrumentation, free to read without a subscription."

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  1. Want to read every single technical detail...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not particularly.

    1. Re:Want to read every single technical detail...? by davester666 · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's like a giant hula-hoop(TM), lying on the ground, with tiny bits of things forced to circle inside it until they collide with one another, which results in the Earth disappearing into a black hole.

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    2. Re:Want to read every single technical detail...? by numbware · · Score: 5, Funny

      Even better explained here.

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  2. Look at this way... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...1600 pages for every detail of the making of a LHC, 6546 pages in the specs for OOXML and it's still not enough detail to let you open and create OOXML documents. Obviously the LHC is not adequately complex.

  3. I found a vulnerability... by Shag · · Score: 5, Funny

    On page 867, there's mention of a two-meter-wide thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The exhaust shaft leads directly to the reactor system, and a precise hit would start a chain reaction which should destroy the LHC.

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    1. Re:I found a vulnerability... by Koiu+Lpoi · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm afraid the LHC will be quite operational when your friends arrive.

  4. What 30 years later? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought that there will be no 30 years later after they turn on the machine...

    1. Re:What 30 years later? by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you end up in some evil mirror universe where W became President instread of Gore you could use the plans to build another LHC to get back home.

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