Earliest LHC Restart Slated For Late Summer 2009

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."

Comments

Won't Ever Work

[Anonymous Coward]

I was on the team. The design is flawed in ways you cannot imagine - and more dangerous then anyone realizes.

Bizarrely placed trust in governments

[MSTCrow5429]

They kept this pretty quiet up to now, not the kind of information policy I would expect from CERN.

Your faith in the openness and transparency of government boondoggles is touching.

Anthropic principle

[vrmlguy]

Has anyone besides me realized that this means that the LHC does have the potential to destroy the Earth? In many universes, the SSC was completed and started, resulting in the destruction of the Earth and killing all observers. For most of the surviving parallel worlds, the LHC was recently turned on and Earth was destroyed. Only those universes where a failure occurred still survive, but since only those universes contain observers, i.e. us, no one has yet realized the danger. Most of these parallel Earths will be destroyed when the LHC is restarted in 2010, again leaving the surviving observers in a universe where another unlikely failure has happened. I wonder how many failures will have to occur before the physicists realize that the many-worlds interpretation is correct, and that the LHC needs to be abandoned?