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LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting
An anonymous reader writes "Only four days after the first attempt to send a particle beam around the LHC, we have arrived at the point when all four experiments got their first real collisions from the machine. This was met by celebrations and champagne, as people have been waiting years and years for this moment. It is a testament to the engineering of the machine that collisions were reached already, so few days after restarting. The LHC had already demonstrated ca 10h stable beams, and now also stable beams in both directions at the same time. In the coming weeks, we need only wait for increased intensity and the first attempts at acceleration."
LAST POST!!!!1
Apparently the future has given up its battle against the LHC. Take that, Nature!
A few small points of information for you:
Your neighbor actually won't be ticked off when he finds out. Quite the contrary, he's gonna be highly aroused and in the mood for a wet & messy threesome. He's also extremely well endowed and has been eyeing you for some time already.
So in summary, you're still hoping the LHC destroys the planet before he gets home.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
"The LHC was shut down again today due to an accident involving a champagne cork."
Boy, you sure lepton that joke in a hurry.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Its like a weabo revving the engine of his pimped out ricer at a stoplight. Don't worry, there is a pretty decent chance it will throw a rod when he actually puts it in gear.
I could say, I suppose, that if he wants to talk about leptons, you need to give him some SLAC... but I won't.
(typos, on the other hand-- the one where the "r" and the "d" switch order in the word "hadron"-- would be appropriate... but still tasteless.)
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It's akin to a car throwing a few warmup pitches.
And there is a live video feed available here: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
Let me guess, as a practical joke you loosen the covalent bonds in the secretaries dress just before the friday staff meeting.
Are you kidding me? That kind of crap is for chemists. We physicists just let our wave functions interact until there is barrier penetration through tunneling. We enforce strict segregation of fermions, but boson-on-boson action is encouraged. As a fermion, I'm usually spin-up when I see their wave functions collapsing.