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Short Circuit In LHC Could Delay Restart By Weeks

Posted by Soulskill on from the universe-will-survive-a-bit-longer dept.

hypnosec writes: On March 21 CERN detected an intermittent short circuit to ground in one of the LHC's magnet circuits. Repairs could delay the restart by anywhere between a few days and several weeks. CERN revealed that the short circuit affected one of LHC's powerful electromagnets, thereby delaying preparations in sector 4-5 of the machine. They confirmed that seven of the machine's eight sectors have been successfully commissioned to 6.5 TeV per beam, but they won't be circulating a beam in the LHC this week. Though the short circuit issue is well understood, resolving it will take time, since it's in a cold section of the machine and repairs may therefore require warming and re-cooling.

6 of 57 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Just great... by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you don't have a crowbar on reach at all moments, you're gambling with your own life.

  2. Re:It's the universe trying to stop us innit... by marcello_dl · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The universe does not need to stop us, because from the inside of it you can never prove you have the faintest idea of the way it is implemented, even if you got to model and understand every single particle and every single interaction. Does an insulated VM run on intel or on powerpc or on a commodore 64 with a hell of a RAM expansion? no way to know from the inside of it.

    So the most rational reason becomes: they tried using systemd to speed things up but some not well documented glitch made the thing shut down. The short circuit is a scapegoat.

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  3. Re:Just great... by fisted · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not sure. What Anomalous Materials are actually involved here, and are they delivered On A Rail for Residue Processing? I mean if not, that would be fairly Questionable, Ethics-wise.

    My, look at the time. BRB fixing the Lambda Core.

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  4. Re:Just great... by gman003 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now if only someone could create a combination crowbar and towel. Keep one of those on you, and you'll be set for anything.

  5. Re:How do we know the Higgs was really discovered by Thanshin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Experiment result : "A squirrel fell on the azidoazide azide magnetic container, leveling the lab and leaving a 23 feet deep crater where the Dean's office used to be."

    Conclusion : "Higgs Boson!"

  6. Sun and moon the same size by PeterM+from+Berkeley · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You realize that the sun/moon size thing is just a temporary condition, right? The moon's been receding from Earth and will continue to do so, so in a few hundred million years it'll be noticeably smaller than the sun and we will have no more total solar eclipses.

    And the dinosaurs probably got to enjoy more eclipses because the moon was closer then.

    Given that, it's hard for me to read anything into the sun/moon size thing other than that it's a coincidence.

    --PM