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Revived LHC Could Run Through the Winter

Posted by samzenpus on from the if-at-first-you-don't-succeed dept.

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."

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  1. Re:I don't mean to nitpick... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Poor?

  2. Re:competition with Fermilab by moon3 · · Score: 1, Troll

    single most important reason for existing

    LHC already accomplished all its main goals. Scooping billions of Euros for firms and contractors that are already very happy with the 'results'. Local news here in Europe are full of crazy stories of overpriced deliveries. The funniest part of this is that Swiss got most of the EU money and it is not even a EU member state. So much for the glory of this kind of borderline science, while stem cell and other critical research are stalled or left underfunded. Now Fermilab could only prove that LHC created a blackhole, in financial terms, thats for sure.