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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...
I guess power costs more during the Winter months, especially if you have a billion people using electric heaters.
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?
I definitely think that you meant to nitpick in this case. Don't deny it.
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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.
We are not going to shut down LHC for the winter due to high electricity costs. If it never occured to you that we would, since the apparatus and the staff would seemingly cost so much more than the electricity anyways, congratulations, it turns out you were right even when we didn't know it yet, thus we will be running the collider and everything is exactly as you would have assumed had you never read this article at all. Thanks for your time.
He didn't just try to nitpick. He actually did it. Get it straight truncated e.
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.
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This may have to do with the fact that Fermilab could find the Higgs particle very soon, and then the LHC would have been scooped on its single most important reason for existing.
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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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E, CERN is ...
Shouldn't that be 'e'?
:x
That's true, they can't read directions for shit.
This has been discussed previously on Slashdot. British writing often uses only initial-caps for pronounceable acronyms. The BBC is especially aggressive about this, resulting in things like "Nasa", which looks like a foreign name at first glance from an American eye. Why the BBC differentiates "BAFTA" from "NASA" in their style guide is a mystery to me; however, in recent BBC articles, it appears that the BBC is writing "Bafta" in actual practice.
BBC House Style and Writing Guidelines, September 2007 (in PDF or raw HTML):
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!"
Is it a slow news day or what?
Cern should be CERN, as it stands for "Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire"
Actually it doesn't. The Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire was a provisional body created in 1952, and no longer exists. In 1954 the European Laboratory for Particle Physics was founded, and the C.E.R.N. was dissolved. The laboratory is named CERN, and although it is conventionally capitalised, it is not an acronym.
You read directions for shitting?????
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.