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Revived LHC Could Run Through the Winter
Jack Spine writes "When you are powering nuclear particle beams that could drill a hole through 30 metres of copper, you don't want to be paying a premium for electricity. However, Cern scientists are determined that the delayed experiment will get some workable results, and so are preparing to run the machine throughout the winter."
Or till Earth is destroyed. Whichever comes first...
Its Europe, send packages of condoms in the mail and directions to orgies. That will keep those buggers warm.
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I should clarify that when I say "I guess", what I mean is that it's in the damn article as well as being good old common sense. I suppose if you didn't read before posting (9 paragraphs is too long?) and you don't have common sense ...
... well then you'd be on /., right?
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Why ask for 1 trillion when we can ask for 1 billion? *raises pinky*
E, CERN is pretty commonly referred to around here. We talk about the impressive multi-national project all of the time. A moment of editing would have saw that error.
I know this, because I'm very drunk right now. If an inebriated AC can see that, I would at least hope that an editor would.
Then again, I'm new here.
I do recall a paper suggesting that the experiment itself will interfere with itself back through time and prevent the machine from ever powering up.
I can't find the paper on Google though, I really need to read it it'll help me figure out why the time machine I'm building doesn't work.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
CEPLARN (Conseil Europeen Pour LA Recherche Nucleaire) would be a cooler name, it sounds vaguely Klingon.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
They should have built a second LHC in the southern hemisphere. That way they could operate all year.
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Unfortunately in the southern hemisphere the spin is reversed, which could result in the anti-god particle. They'll play with black holes, but there are limits to their hubris.
The next version is the Trans-equator Hadron Collider (THC) which will circle the equator and have a branch that passes through the core in an attempt to discover stuff that's like, really cool, man. Here's a diagram.
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Hmm... so that's where he got them...
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That's true, they can't read directions for shit.
Translation: "Fuck! D-zero's collected like 6 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity and we're just sitting on our asses looking at cosmic ray hits!!! Who gives a shit about power $$$?! Switch the fucker on!!"
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
You read directions for shitting?????
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.