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Europe's LHC To Run At Half-Energy Through 2011
quaith writes "ScienceInsider reports that Europe's Large Hadron Collider will run at half its maximum energy through 2011 and likely not at all in 2012. The previous plan was to ramp it up to 70% of maximum energy this year. Under the new plan, the LHC will run at 7 trillion electron-volts through 2011. The LHC would then shut down for a year so workers could replace all of its 10,000 interconnects with redesigned ones allowing the LHC to run at its full 14 TeV capacity in 2013. The change raises hopes at the LHC's lower-energy rival, the Tevatron Collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, of being extended through 2012 instead of being shut down next year. Fermilab researchers are hoping that their machine might collect enough data to beat the LHC to the discovery of the Higgs boson, a particle key to how physicists explain the origin of mass."
,,,has far more energy than any woman can imagine!
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
So now we'll only know the mass of the Higgs to the 14th decimal place?
Oh no, how shall we survive?
Maury
On an unrelated note, I have been reading about this guy called Candlejack. Apparently he is
....sorry about that. Some faggot dressed like a scarecrow just tried to break into my house. Shot the motherfucker and then sodomized him, gotta burn the body before the cops come.
.. but theres a limit and the amount of money the LHC is using up is taking the piss. Like it or not science is NOT and end in itself - its exists to benefit mankind. If there is little or no benefit for all these billions spent then IMO they would be better spent elsewhere. I'm sorry if that upsets some people but theres nothing special about particle physics than means it alone should get virtually a blank cheque for any scheme that is dreamt up for it. Some returns are needed from this potential white elephant and fast, and I don't just mean in some more chapters for postgraduate textbooks or something for professors to argue over in university debates. This money comes from taxpayers - us - it didn't grow on trees and I think it reasonable to expect taxpayers to get something back from it.