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LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer)
rufey writes "The recent problems at the Large Hadron Collider will now keep it idle until spring 2009. The official press release is here. The LHC went offline due to a suspected failure in a superconducting connection, which overheated and caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100 degrees. This resulted in the accidental release of a ton of liquid helium. The process required to repair the failed superconducting connection involves weeks of warming up the affected area from -456 degrees Fahrenheit to room temperature, and then several more weeks to cool it back down after the repair is made. The total amount of time to do this will spill over into CERN's scheduled winter maintenance/shutdown period, which is partly done to save money on electricity during the period of peak demand."
I can wait till next spring for the world to end.
Now where did that paper clip go?
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
Now I'll have to wait even longer to welcome our new demonic overlords who were supposed to come out of the stargate that the LHC will create.
If you have something that you dont want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt
I spent all my money over the last 6 months on alcohol and parties, secure in the knowledge that the world would come to an end this October when the LHC came up to full power.
This is unacceptable. I demand they destroy the world now.
I'm a big tall mofo.
I believe with all the problems they're having, the actual date when the high-energy collisions begin will be December 2012.
A year from now everyone will be complaining about the huge price tag on this thing that has never been 100% operational.
It's the Windows Vista of supercolliders.
I'd rather it be the Vista then the Millennium Edition...
Posts not to be taken literally. Almost everything is sarcasm.
I understand things were going well - then there was this 'big bang'....
AT&ROFLMAO
220, 221, whatever it takes.
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
the BIGGEST and probably the most important experiment ever conceived is underway, and they are being left to think about saving energy ?
if there is anything that world shouldnt be saving energy, if there is anything that needs to be subsidized by governments, this is it.
because, this is IT. if the god particle is found, the smallest block of EXISTENCE will be found.
im appalled how EU is not being of sufficient assistance in this. unbelievable.
Read radical news here
A ton of helium! What's the big deal? That's, like, way lighter than a ton of air!
[I'm being facetious about the weights, but in terms of cost, losing a ton of helium is freakin' expensive]
So, if this is correct, we now know that it will work.
I, for one, welcome the Higgs bosons from the future that successfully interfere with the LHC in the present!
There's a guy running back and forth down the tunnel with a bucket of warm water...
To upgrade to XP.
Turns out one of the new particles forgot to get certified Vista-ready.
Not naming any names here (I'm looking at you muon-antineutrino!)
Okay folks lets get it straight. The US isn't the only one that still doesn't use the metric system for everything.
http://www.toyota.co.uk/cgi-bin/toyota/bv/generic_editorial.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0174202331.1222276069@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdadeffffejeicfngcfkmdfkidfgh.0&deepLink=YA3_Specification_new&nodiv=TRUE&fullwidth=TRUE&edname=specSheet_YA3&carModel=Yaris&imgName=bv/CarChapter/YA3/Imagery/YA3_spec.jpg&zone=Zone%20YARIS
Here is a link to a Japanese car company selling a car in the UK.
They give the fuel economy in MPG as well as KM per liter.
Drives me crazy when I get UK motor cycle mag. The give the fuel economy in MPG and the fuel tank size in Liters!
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
They will trun it back the day after the CUBS win it all.
You're being unfair, but they have a plan.
They're going to rename it the Large Mojave Collider and prove that its just bad press that is making them look bad.
A ton is exactly 2240 lbs. Otherwise it wouldn't be a round number of hundredweights (or stones) and that would just be silly.
Unless it's a metric ton, which is spelt "tonne", and is exactly 2204 and a bit lbs. Simple, no?
Being scientists, the quantity in this instance was probably more or less a shedload.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
Naw, its too late.
Turns out McCain is Kang and Obama is Kodos.
You know its useless to vote for a third candidate.
No sig for the moment.
I wonder if anyone has considered the dangers of that much free helium. If there was a horrible accident at LHC if they called anyone their voices would be too high pitched to take seriously.
They will trun it back the day after the CUBS win it all.
Against Miami?
Yeah. Who would've thought? 100 to 1 shot! I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season, put some money on the Cubs.
'a';DROP TABLE users; SELECT * FROM DATA WHERE name LIKE '%'... if you're reading this, it didn't work.
Q: What did one CERN Scientist say to the other after they collided their first particles?
A: What's the matter?
I am the richest astronaut ever to win the superbowl.
Actually, the world ended when the Red Sox won it all, it's just that nobody noticed.
I am dissappointed. We are on slashdot. Please say instead
"The results will be evalutaed using GNU/Hurd"
or "The operators could finish a round of DNF in the breaks" or "a microsoft linux running on phantom game consoles is used as a thin client operating system" etc...
NO Sports, please!
1 tonne = 1000kg.
Makes no sense, and that pisses me off. I much prefer my units being eighths of a unit made up of one twelfth of a unit made up of a third of a unit made up of 1/1760th of the largest practical unit.
It's been a long time.
This is why I moved to Cincinnati.
The aliens put top priority into making sure that the collider did not come online and seed a black hole.
Interestingly enough, the aliens' normal work centers around stabilizing the worldwide financial markets. That work obviously suffered while they were preoccupied. It is taking some time for them to get back on track, too.
No, *real* scientists use natural units and measure temperature in eV - like everything else ;)
What if it's a really hot vacuum?