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LHC Hits an Energy of 3.5TeV
Inovaovao writes "As announced on Twitter by the CMS experiment, the LHC has finally accelerated both beams to 3.5 TeV for the first time. It thus broke the previous energy record of 1.18 TeV it had set last fall, about a month since operations started again this year. It'll be a while yet before we see stable beams and collisions at 3.5 TeV. You won't get much of a clue to the timetable by reading the General Manager's pompous announcements. If you want to follow what's going on, look at the Status Ops."
Actually, the press release came out today when they reach 3.5 TeV, which is when they actually breached the space-time continuum, thus sending their PR department back in time one week resulting in this back-dated press release.
That's not pompous, that's just German thoughts translated into English ;).
"Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
It's pretty outrageous calling the Director General's web update pompous.
I'd say you were new around here (as kdawson is not known for his intellectual musings), but damn it Anonymous Coward, you've been posting here for longer than I have - so you should know better than to write crap like that.
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Wait, are we talking TeV or TieV?
I'd explain it all to you, but we don't have time! Well, time is very relative. When it reaches 3.6 TeV, it will open a rift in time that will launch the entire planet back in time. Most likely none of us will ever remember it, so we'll let it happen over and over until ...
[LHC reaches 3.6 TeV, and the loop begins again....]
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
It is true, however, that cosmic ray collisions completely kill the "LHC will destroy the world" bullshit.
Ah, but you forget that cosmics ray hadrons are natural and organically grown, unlike those nasty synthetic LHC ones which cause obesity, cancer and black holes. Plus they don't taste as good.
That's not pompous, that's just German thoughts translated into English ;).
You seem to have confused country and language. Those are Swiss thoughts translated into English
Schwyzer Duetsch? Make it twice pompous!
Ezekiel 23:20
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