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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. What do you expect? by imsabbel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The LHC has been longer in development than the WWW exists (there are screenshots around from the "first website ever" that had design drawings of the atlas detector on it.

    It has happened. They got to fix it, piece by piece. Do you really need a "what cf flanges we replaced today" blog?

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    HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
    1. Re:What do you expect? by bckrispi · · Score: 4, Interesting
      Not only that, but the WWW was invented for the purpose of supporting the work being done on the LHC.

      Many of the discussions of the future at CERN and the LHC era end with the question - "Yes, but how will we ever keep track of such a large project?" This proposal provides an answer to such questions. Firstly, it discusses the problem of information access at CERN. Then, it introduces the idea of linked information systems, and compares them with less flexible ways of finding information.

      It then summarises my short experience with non-linear text systems known as hypertext, describes what CERN needs from such a system, and what industry may provide. Finally, it suggests steps we should take to involve ourselves with hypertext now, so that individually and collectively we may understand what we are creating.

      This being said, I'd say that the LHC has already paid for itself a thousand times over.

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      Xenon, where's my money? -Borno
  2. With the data... by FrameRotBlues · · Score: 4, Interesting
    They've got a lot of data to figure out what probably happened. But, FTFA:

    Most likely cause : an electric arc due to rupture of the interconnection. Unfortunately this is difficult to prove, since the whole dipole interconnect was 'vaporised' during the event!

  3. Re:Anthropic principle by Bryan+Ischo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do you actually believe that incoherent, illogical, unscientific, unprovable baloney?