LHC Prepares Marathon Higgs Hunt

gbrumfiel writes "Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider are preparing to run the collider until the end of 2012 in the hopes of finding the Higgs particle, part of the mechanism that endows other particles with mass. The machine was originally supposed to stop in 2011 for a year long upgrade, but scientists now think they can find the Higgs if they run for longer. 'If we stop the machine with 3,000 people apiece in the experiments waiting for data, there is no way we could get home at night without having slashed tyres on our cars,' says Sergio Bertolucci, CERN's director for research and computing."

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They say

[binarylarry]

A higgs boson tastes like chicken, but you never know until you try it!

They're just taunting the 2012ers

[GrumblyStuff]

That's so mean.

Re:They're just taunting the 2012ers

[Lashat]

If they announce that they are stopping the machine on December 21, 2012, I'm on the next flight off this rock.

"3,000 people apiece in the experiments"

[Sockatume]

"If we stop the machine with 3,000 people apiece in the experiments"

Woah woah woah, I think someone got confused about what they're meant to be colliding here. I don't think smashing grad students is the answer.

Re:"3,000 people apiece in the experiments"

[Anonymous Coward]

A modded down xkcd on slashdot?

Marvelous.

Won't last for long, but I'll savor it for a little while.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

After 2012

[doublee3]

"Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider are preparing to run the collider until the end of 2012" Thanks captain obvious. I'm not a moron, I know they won't be running it AFTER the world ends.

Typo in summary

[srussia]

"Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider [CC] are preparing to run the collider until the end, in 2012.