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Vacuum Leaks Lead To Another LHC Delay
suraj.sun tips this story at ZDNet about a new problem with the LHC. Quoting:
"The restart of the Large Hadron Collider has been pushed back further, following the discovery of vacuum leaks in two sectors of the experiment. The world's largest particle collider is now unlikely to restart before mid-November, according to a CERN press statement. The project had been expected to start again in October. To repair the leaks, which are from the helium circuit into the insulating vacuum, sectors 8-1 and 2-3 will have to be warmed from 80K to room temperature. Adjacent sub-sectors will act as 'floats,' while the remainder of the surrounding sectors will be kept at 80K, CERN said in the statement. The repair work will not have an impact on the vacuum in the beam pipe. CERN has pushed back the restart a number of times, as repair work has continued. To begin with, scientists said the LHC experiment would restart in April 2009. In May, CERN [said] that the restarted experiment could run through the winter to make up some of the lost time."
This is like Duke Nukem Forever all over again.
History might not repeat itself but it sure does rhyme.
I predict the collider turns on in 2012.
Why oh why must you abhor a vacuum???
Everybody knows that the LHC will be restarted... when, Dec. 23rd, 2012?
... soon they won't be able to stop them. It will be a hazardous vacuum spill, endangering all the surroundings of the LHC!!
...the delay will mean the world lives on for 2 more months ;=)
;)
Ofcourse, A(H1N1)v will prevent the startup alltogether, as key personnel falls sick at the critical time
Then again, the sudden reappearance of sunspots on the sun probably means the super nova will come before even that happens
Oh no, I forgot to take my pills !
This is the USA that you're talking about, right? To the extent this physics knowledge is in the Bible, such efforts are unnecessary expenses. To the extent the knowledge is not in the Bible, such efforts are forbidden.
Real physicists have already worked out the equations and have anticipated the results of the experiments at CERN.
Experimental lab techs are the ones who are having setbacks here.
Don't worry your little monkey brain too much. Humans are progressing just fine.
"Argh."
Pirates! I knew it!
You've already created a black hole though. It sucks in tax money which then promptly disappears, and nothing ever comes out of it.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
I had a vacuum leak once and in less than 5 seconds my house, instead of just smelling like dog hair smelled like stale month old dog hair in a vacuum bag. I also learned to empty the bag more often.
More music, fewer hits
I want to know where they hid the working LHC at.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
Maybe LHC should merge with ISS then. At least the BH would orbit the Earth a while, giving us a little time to ... uh ... pray?
Table-ized A.I.
That sucks.
To paraphrase, this guy is in the middle of a flooding city. He repeatedly refuses attempts of others to rescue him, claiming God will save him. He drowns, winds up in Heaven, and asks God why he didn't save him. "I sent you a two boats and a helicopter..."
So I can see God now using his mighty and flagellant tendrils to tinker with the LHC's inner workings and yet we still press on, thwarting his every attempt to save the planet Earth and the life he created. I'm certain this will all end with a, "Okay, power it up!", followed by a surprisingly brief sucking sound as the world is drawn into a black hole of its own making.
I can just see the look on his face...
Actually that's not a bad idea, no problem of 'vacuum leaks' up there, and the black hole could suck up all the space junk in orbit! Great idea!
Now off to patent it... :)
DEMETRIUS: Villain, what hast thou done?
AARON: Villain, I have done thy mother.
Shakespeare invents 'your mom'
I understand this being /. most people think that argh is just a pirate term, since there are so many RIAA stories. In the context of Physics, which is what this post is about, argh is an SI unit of work done incorrectly.
It's now what, a year behind the schedule they'd set after the explosion? CERN is looking worse and worse.
Oh, come on, man, it's not CERN's fault that the anthropic principle limits us to observing universes that haven't ended our existence by creating black holes in a hadron collider!
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
at least if we believe Walter Wagner: TheDailyShow - LHC