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The LHC Is Back Online

Posted by kdawson on from the exercising-the-formula-one-around-town dept.

medea and several other readers noted that the LHC came back online early this morning. Here is the tweet from CERN announcing the milestone. As we discussed a few weeks ago, CERN plans to run the LHC at half power or less through 2011.

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  1. Re:its because the olympics are over by biryokumaru · · Score: 0, Troll

    *woosh*

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  2. Half power for the year? by Sporkinum · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's because 2012 is when they will have full power to create the black hole that will swallow us all up.

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    1. Re:Half power for the year? by macbeth66 · · Score: 0, Troll

      But... But...
      How did the mayans know this was going to happen?

    2. Re:Half power for the year? by JustOK · · Score: 0, Troll

      fortune cookies, perhaps?

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  3. Re:its because the olympics are over by sznupi · · Score: 1, Troll

    Actually, I can see some group of people benefiting from the LHC being shut down until recently.

    A buddy of mine, who lived many years ago in Geneva, shared with me how the electricity there was noticeably below specs (voltage-wise) every time the previous CERN accelerator was online. Who knows whether or not that changed. But until recently it was quite cold in most of Europe...

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