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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."
Collision for the next 3 years because something else breaks?
Seems like this thing only ever makes the news because it is broken again in a new and interesting way.
No, we just live in the quantum reality in which they failed. Sucks to be (this version of) us.
lepton?
IT's not at full power yet! and it can fail with a big boom.
Yeah, but surely 99.999% of them know how google works.
I run: Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD. Just because you have a hammer, doesn't mean everything is a nail.
Why even bother posting LHC news on /. anymore. It's just top to bottom black hole and collision jokes. The bottom of the barrel has been scraped, and you guys have worked your way through the wood and there is light peeking through on the other side. No funny can escape from this. These are the same jokes that occur every day in the upper atmosphere at much higher humor levels than we can manage. The universe is actively avoiding the discovery of a funny black hole joke, and will mysteriously break any attempts to discover it.
That's not true. It's one of the years which ended up in movie titles, along with 1984, 2001 and 2010.
But of course it won't be the end of the world, because that will be 2038, as predicted by the Unix calendar.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
What I love so much about the LHC is that despite all these theories about everything, one may actually get to become proven.
Aside from the point that we falsify not "prove" theories, there's the point that we may end up with many valid theories explaining the same thing. There need not be only one way to explain the universe, but many equivalent ways.
What have logical arguments got to do with scared idiots?
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia