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LHC To Start Back Up In November At Half Power
mcgrew writes to mention that the Large Hadron Collider, smasher of particles, will get another chance to prove itself this November. The restart will begin with tests at half power, a mere 7 trillion electron volts (TeV), and ramp up slowly to the designed goal of 14 TeV. "Measurements indicate that some of the electrical connections could not safely handle the amount of current needed to run at the full 14 TeV, so will need to be replaced before dialing up the energy that far. But even 7 TeV is much higher than physicists have ever probed in the laboratory before. The Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, is the current record holder, with collisions at 2 TeV."
Good, only half the universe will be destroyed. =)
I'm still skeptical... I'd like to see the all the work that was done on the LHC that was outsourced. There had to be quite a bit of miscommunication for the scale of the problems this machine has had. Still, I hope they get this working! I want to hear about Higgs boson!
they've been soldering those wires. They should you thicker ones if they want higher current
I was at BestBuy a few years ago and heard the blue-shirted drone tell these guys "Look, you have to use Monster Cable for your Hadron collider."
Did they listen? No!
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Trolling is a art,
It always kinda amuses* me to remember that 7 TeV is equal to ~1 microJoule. So this incredibly massive and complicated machine is required just to reach energies that are a million times less than what I can get by flicking my pinky finger. Though they do put all that energy into a single subatomic particle and carefully guide them into hitting each other right in front of their detectors, while every time I try to flick a proton with my finger I end up hitting a ton of them and they go flying off every which way, so I guess we still need the LHC.
* Yes I am easily amused, why do you ask?
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Now I can't get that song out of my head again. "LHCB sees where the anti-matter's gone. ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions. CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind. They're looking for whatever new particles they can find..."
Argh!
I piss off bigots.
I'll be more impressed when they turn it up to 11.
"LHC To Start Back Up In November At Half Power"
Any bets that it will not?
Vegas should start a pool, I'm sure it would be a hit with the betters.
I'll start paying attention when they start running at ludicrous speed or plaid.
0 = 1 + e^(Alt something)
The restart will begin with tests at half power, a mere 7 trillion electron volts (TeV), and ramp up slowly to the designed goal of 14 TeV.
So I guess you could say that the Large Hadron Collider is being treated for electron dysfunction.
Rob
Did they listen? No!
Not true. I heard they tried to buy the proper cable but attempted to pay with $2 bills and were promptly arrested ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I see. So whty're starting off at 3.5 TeV, moving to 5 and 7 TeV. They will get to 10 TeV at one point.
I wonder if it would be be louder if they turned the dial all the way up to 11 TeV.
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And it's like, how much more black hole could it get? And the answer is none. None more black hole.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
I, for one, can not wait to be goatse'd in 3D.