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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. Re:Doom by Idiomatick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ;; /. should have special occasions like this where you can rate a post to +6

  2. Re:Is this related to this wormhole .. by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nice. Thank you.

    BTW, is the quote in the .sig yours? I need to know who to quote. :)

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  3. Re:Doom by Lord+Pillage · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's a cacodeomon? Is that when Satan lives in your hot chocolate?

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  4. Re:Thanks! You're a life saver! by daveime · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Perhaps you could try doing things the old-fashioned way ?

    i.e. actually saving up *first* for that house / car / appliances you want, instead of just joining the "me first, me now, credit, credit, credit" crowd running up debt and then moaning about it when you lose your job ?