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First Collisions At the LHC

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the make-sure-the-world-is-still-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "At 1:06 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST) today, the first protons collided at 7 TeV in the Large Hadron Collider. These first collisions, recorded by the LHC experiments, mark the start of the LHC's research program."

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  1. Surprised by impaledsunset · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm quite suprised that I can reach Slashdot's server now that Earth is destroyed and gone.

    1. Re:Surprised by Fzz · · Score: 4, Funny

      All the other versions of you in all the other branches of spacetime are toast. The only branch of spacetime where you can still reach Slashdot's server is this one where you got really lucky.

    2. Re:Surprised by Mashdar · · Score: 4, Funny

      Phew. Solved that whole cat dilemma, then.

  2. Re:This may be the biggest experiment of all by symes · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure this is possible. I once had a beer with an almost eminent particle physicist. We kind of agreed that if this is the "ultimate" God particle then funding for particle physics could be under serious threat. What is the point in funding LHC type experiments if there are no more particles to be found? After a few more beers we hypothesised that the God particle must be constructed from, not particles, but something else a little bit like lego. And that the only way to understand this lego-like property of ultimate particles was lots of particle physicists working full time for many years on LHC-II.

  3. Coincidence by hallucinogen · · Score: 4, Funny

    While watching the webcast, just seconds away from the first collisions, the stream went down. I was like w000t! You have no idea how disappointed I was as I realized that it was just my shitty wifi..

  4. Re:Resources by RDW · · Score: 5, Funny

    The live webcams are also worth checking out:

    'Camera 7: looking at the Underground Experimental Cavern from the Saleve side.'
    'Camera 8: looking out of the window of the 1st Floor of the SCX building that houses the CMS Control room.'

    http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

  5. Re:Excellent news! by quenda · · Score: 4, Funny

    P.S. The labs down the hall that participate in the collaboration will be partying tonight :)

    You can tell because they have undone an extra button on their lab coats, and are drinking full-sugar coke.

  6. First collisions...not involving a baguette by ruark · · Score: 5, Funny

    The title could be a little more precise. This is not technically the first collision at the LHC. http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/0824213/LHC-Shut-Down-Again-mdash-By-Baguette-Dropping-Bird

  7. MIT Ph.D now out of work by Nighttime · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hangs up his orange suit and crowbar.

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  8. Re:This may be the biggest experiment of all by Hurricane78 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder if they will go the Dark Matter/Energy way, and simply call the universe wrong. ^^

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  9. First Collisions at the LHC by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Whoever it was, I hope they're insured.