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LHC Reaches Record Energy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the spinning-and-spinning dept.

toruonu writes "Yesterday evening the Large Hadron Collider at CERN for the first time accelerated protons in both directions of the ring to 1.18 TeV. Even though the 1 TeV barrier per beam was first broken a week ago, this marks the first time that the beam was in the machine in both directions at the same time, allowing possibly for collisions at a center of mass energy of 2.36 TeV. Although the test lasted mere minutes, it was enough to have detectors record the very first events at 2.36 TeV. LHC passes Tevatron (the particle collider at Fermilab that operates at 1.96 TeV) and becomes the highest energy particle collider in the world (so far it was effectively just the highest energy storage ring...)"

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  1. Doom by 2names · · Score: 3, Funny

    Doom, I tell you. It's coming for all of us.

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    1. Re:Doom by purpledinoz · · Score: 4, Funny

      Since we're all doomed, how about you send me all you money?

    2. Re:Doom by MiniMike · · Score: 5, Funny

      Start running your credit card up... You can't take it with you!

      .. and if you've been good, those debt collectors can't follow you!

    3. Re:Doom by dumuzi · · Score: 5, Funny

      I lepton the chance to be the FIRST POST!!!!!. and got so charged up about it I got a large hadron. I am still a little fermion. fortunately no black holes were involved, Unfortunately I miss gauged and some braneless boson beat me to the first post. so I had to gluon my post here, The insensitive clod who beat me was probably from the future and came back in time just to ruin my post, I do not for one welcome this new overlord from the future, The positive side of all this negativity is that having his post on top and mine on the bottom does have a quarky strange charm to it (like a flex fuel car’s superposition of states), At the risk of creating a messon this post (like a bird bombings and baguettes) and having it spin out of control I shall anti up. collapse my own wave function and walk myself off the Planck [through a displacement of 1,2 m (0,24 rods. or about 15 wamprats)] before the beams cross and swine flu mutates into ebola on Dec 21st 2012,

    4. Re:Doom by Verdatum · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is your boss. Get back to work!!

    5. Re:Doom by MadKeithV · · Score: 5, Funny

      Compiling!

    6. Re:Doom by dumuzi · · Score: 5, Funny

      With a Beowulf cluster of memes already used I was afraid natalie portman's hot grits would make my post too memeingfull.

    7. Re:Doom by Verdatum · · Score: 4, Funny

      Carry on.

    8. Re:Doom by geekoid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Fess up, you wrote that a year ago and have just been waiting for the chance to copy and paste it into a post, right?

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    9. Re:Doom by The+Archon+V2.0 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Very good. I love the sound of dying Cacodemons.

      Stop, you're making me nostalgic for my days of abusing DeHackEd horribly.

    10. Re:Doom by vegiVamp · · Score: 2, Funny

      Mmmm. Anyone got mozarella and olive oil handy ?

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    11. Re:Doom by b4upoo · · Score: 2, Funny

      No doom involved. This machine can microwave a turkey in an instant. Yum!

    12. Re:Doom by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

      Psssst, Boss. Make him use an interpreted language and skip the compile time wait.

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  2. Energy consumption hypocrisy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I find it extremely hypocritical of so many European nations to be very gung-ho about the Copenhagen climate change conference and the associated chicanery with carbon offsets and all that crap, yet they're willing to fund and encourage excessive energy use like this.

    The amount of power they used in mere minutes during this experiment could have powered millions of homes and businesses for a significantly longer period of time.

  3. Is this related to this wormhole .. by Idimmu+Xul · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is this related to the wormhole that opened up above Norway yesterday?


    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html
    http://angryhosting.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/92/92a406b3d33f96b6953bab7efdf4541c1f130c27.jpg
    http://img.waffleimages.com/d0718b906d187ca53b2e5a919c0e50dc2bb920d2/Fenomen_over_Borras_340148c.jpg
    http://img.waffleimages.com/c3c879e75fc8f28b8867e8e678300ab6550dddfb/Fenomen_over_Borras_340149c.jpg
    http://img.waffleimages.com/37f2e96dcb20b8b968af81799df40f72a36e73e1/1260346061961_198.jpg
    http://www.vgtv.no/?id=27553
    http://img.waffleimages.com/294526ec517df78cb7535993b41d3cc0dafa0f05/DSC00020_340153b.jpg
    http://img.waffleimages.com/1ff7bad9b6542532a8cdc63bf02b386f891861d0/8fb0b14e0b4c7123618a8783dc35c964.jpg
    http://img.waffleimages.com/9094e12c8e6320a3238bbf7e833c3cf6e36ed3c3/Fenomen_over_Borras_340147c.jpg
    http://img.waffleimages.com/e07e495a8589dd769b7640ac21be295f738c1c04/f8ec04b52d3ffb2558f3256fd8f11d0a.jpg

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  4. Humorbot 5.0 by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I says, "Super collider? I just met her!" And then they built the super collider. Thank you, you've been a great audience. - Humorbot 5.0

  5. Breaking news. by LWATCDR · · Score: 5, Funny

    A herd of Lamas have escaped a local zoo and nibbled on the Christmas lights at CERN. The short caused the cooling system to go off line and the LHC will be off line for five months.

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    1. Re:Breaking news. by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

      The Lamas were heard shouting "stop whipping our ass" and seen trashing any PC running WinAmp.

    2. Re:Breaking news. by tool462 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Those responsible for the llama escape have been sacked.

      The LHC will come back online in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.

  6. Re:Higgs by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you absolutely sure that "Lepton flavor violation" isn't some sort of horribly translated import-only hentai?

  7. At 2.36TV... by jd2112 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You only need about 0.5mA to send a DeLorian back in time!

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  8. Jiggawatts by sagematt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dammit Slashdot, at least learn to use Jiggawatts instead of TeV or whichever crazy measure Europeans have, don't forget about your American audience!

    1. Re:Jiggawatts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      2.36 teraelectron volts = 3.78113645 × 10-16 gigamegamicrojoules

  9. Still? by Interoperable · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've been following the LHC's progress fairly closely because I find the project absolutely fascinating. On the other hand, I think /. might be overdoing it a bit regarding news on the subject. Half the summary was devoted to explaining what exactly was different from the last posting. As all of the previous posting have explained, it will be a few months before anything truly exciting happens and years after that before the first really valuable scientific discoveries start occurring. Much of the discussion has become: "Are we there yet?" "No." "How about now?" "No." "And now?" "Still no."

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  10. In other news... by HigH5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... LHC also broke the record for working for the longest uninterrupted time.

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  11. Bah. by sootman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yesterday evening the Large Hadron Collider at CERN for the first time accelerated protons in both directions of the ring to 1.18 TeV

    640GeV ought to be enough for anybody.

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  12. what's a lama? by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    did you mean llama?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama

    or perhaps lamia, a child-eating female demon? that would be sexy but would certainly mess up cern

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamia_(mythology)

    they were attacked by hawaiian trees?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros_sandwicensis

    they were attacked by a ukranian pop band?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lama_(band)

    ohhh, you meant tibetan religious leaders! why won't those damn buddhist fundamentalists leave science alone!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lama

    unfortunately, they may know lama, so they'll certainly kick your ass after knocking out cern with a tibetan white crane style kick

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lama_(martial_art)

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    1. Re:what's a lama? by Captain+Spam · · Score: 5, Funny

      So you're suggesting it was a Lama-trained Lamia Lama playing for Lama under a Lama?

      Man, when Lima hears about this...

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  13. Re:Next week on slashdot.... by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 2, Funny

    The LHC becomes the first particle accelerator to collide protons at energies twice the speed of the tevatron!

    Please explain the Google service or iPhone tie-in.

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  14. Killjoy... by hellfire · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone goes to all the effort to make a perfectly reasonable Back to the Future joke and you have to kill it with your infernal logic. Great Scott, how dare you! This is so heavy.

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  15. Thanks! You're a life saver! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks! I've got 40K in student loads and 1K on my credit card and 300K in mortgage on my home (which is now worth half that).

    So if you want me to send you -341K dollars, I'll be happy to obligue. :-)

  16. Re:What? by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can the Singularity enlarge certain parts of the masculine anatomy too?

    Yes, your adam's-apple will swell up like a pregnant camel. Stock up on soup.
         

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  17. Re:It was a russian rocket by Wannabe+Code+Monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man, I am loving these Norwegian news sites. It looks like English and Norwegian have some similar words due to their common Germanic origin. But what's interesting is the fact that there seem to be many more false friends, which makes for amazing headlines like this one: "Innbrudd hos Nicky Hilton - Jeg hater folk som stjeler, twitrer søstera Paris". Which of course I interpret as "Inbred hos Nicky Hilton and her sister Paris hate folks who twitter".

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  18. Webcam by elmartinos · · Score: 3, Funny

    Webcam from the LHC is here

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