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Earliest LHC Restart Slated For Late Summer 2009

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-it's-cheap dept.

gaijinsr writes "The damage done in what CERN calls the 'S34 Incident' (and what other people call a major explosion in the cryogenics system) is much more serious than originally admitted: The earliest possible restart date is late summer next year, but with some proposed improvements to avoid repetitions of the incident, it looks more like 2010. They kept this pretty quiet up to now, not the kind of information policy I would expect from CERN."

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  1. Yay! by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

    The universe is saved for a couple of more years! Now's the time to form our new national holiday "Beat the Hell out of the Atheist Murderous Universe-destroying Physicists Day".

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  2. My prediction by Kamokazi · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet the first time it is actually used in a full power experiment will be December 21, 2012.

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  3. Cut 'em some slack by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Funny

    Keep in mind all information coming out of there has to escape the black hole's pull.

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  4. Whatever. by IWood · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've got my crowbar. Bring it on.

  5. We will never see it work by magi · · Score: 4, Funny

    LHC is obviously a doomsday machine. Turning it on will immediately destroy humankind in all the parallel universes where it works. Therefore, in the universes where we stay alive, we will always see it fail. The failure proves the parallel structure of the universe.