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Restart of Large Hadron Collider At CERN
Taco Cowboy contributes this news from the BBC: After a two-year hiatus the LHC (Large Hadron Collider ) at CERN has been restarted. For the past two years an upgrade program was carried out for the LHC. Due to the upgrade, the LHC is enjoying a double dose of energy, as compared to its previous self before the upgrade. Particle beams have now travelled in both directions, inside parallel pipes, at a whisker below the speed of light.
Actual collisions will not begin for at least another month. Currently the protons are being injected at a relatively low energy to begin with. But over the coming months, engineers hope to gradually increase the beams' energy to 13 trillion electronvolts: double what it was during the LHC's first operating run. The experiment teams have already detected 'splashes' of particles, which occur when stray protons hit one of the shutters used to keep the beam on-track. If this happens in part of the pipe near one of the experiments, the detectors can pick up some of the debris. ... Debris from the tiny but history-making smash-ups might contain new particles, or tell-tale gaps betraying the presence of dark matter or even hidden dimensions. But first we need collisions — due in May at the earliest — and then a steady torrent of data will make its way to physicists around the world, so that the massive analysis effort can begin."
They didn't succeed to destroy earth last time.
But portraying.
So far the beams are just at the injection energy of 450 GeV from the SPS and you can see some splash event in ATLAS here. The real test will be when they ramp the magnets up to 11kA currents for the 6.5 TeV beams. Hopefully this time our understanding of the universe will break before the machine.
This is where it all changes. This day starts the day of the new age.
I am from the future, I know these things.
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Press F1 to continue, DEL to enter Setup...
Now witness the power of this fully operational LHC!
the only timelines in which we exist are the ones where the LHC is delayed due to technical problems after technical problems. I wonder how many unexpected delays it will take before people at CERN get the message that reaching 13 TeV destroys the Earth.
Been there, done that (failed April Fool's Day Slashdot submission),
Evidence Suggests LHC Test Already Begun
TheRealHocusLocus (2319802) writes
"With a deliberate surge of electrical current a small metal fragment has been vaporized to fix a glitch in CERN's Large Hadron Collider in a circular chain of events that will lead into its presence as the result of a future test. "Clearly there are exciting times ahead," suggested a member of the CERN community. "At some point --- perhaps during the 13 TeV test in May --- a TKO (Terrifically Kinetic Outburst) will occur and this tiny fragment of the machine will cross the proton stream to lodge between a magnet and diode a few days ago, preventing the scheduled March 31 start-up. This delay is confirmation that it works. You could even say we're now on 'borrowed time'."
Vaporizing the fragment unseen was part of the plan. Why not analyze it to determine which component will fail and what else could happen? "Because we didn't, obviously! Sorry. That was suggested, but there were fears that doing so would further delay the test. And spoil the surprise." Upcoming experiments planned for 2015 will attempt to more accurately reproduce early conditions after the Big Bang, and explore the possibility that cosmic Gamma Ray Bursts originate from advanced civilizations performing physics experiments.
In other news CERN has confirmed the existence of 'The Force' by charting a recently detected disturbance, as if billions of voices are soon to cry out then go silent."
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Half life 3?
A physicist is spending a vacation in Geneva near the headquarters of CERN. He's helping his wife shop, and she decides to have her hair done. She tells him, "Be back at exactly 4:00 to pick me up, no Physics." As he walks down the avenue, he sees a cute blonde peering under the hood of her car.
"Can I help you?" he asks.
"I'm stalled."
He takes out a Swiss Army knife and fiddles with the engine. "Try it." No luck. He fiddles again. "Try it again." No luck. He fiddles some more. "Try it again."
Vrooooom, vrooooom. Success at last. She says, "Thank you very much. Oh dear, your hands are covered with grease. I live nearby. You can stop and wash your hands."
He washes his hands. She offers him tea. One thing leads to another, and they jump into bed together. An hour later he jumps out of bed and says, "Look at the time!" He dresses quickly and rushes out the door. Then he stops, goes back in and asks, "Got any chalk?"
"Yeah, in the drawer over there."
He marks the back of his jacket with chalk and rushes to the hairdresser where his wife is waiting with packages and black smoke coming out of her ears. "Where were you?"
"Well, I was walking down the street and saw this attractive blonde whose car wouldn't start. I helped her, got all greasy, and went upstairs to wash my hands. One thing led to another and we jumped into bed..."
She says, "Wait a minute; turn around. You liar—you went to CERN and talked physics!"
I see trouble already
"All should leave Geneva. Saturn turns from gold to iron, The contrary positive ray (RAYPOZ) will exterminate everything, There will be signs in the sky before this." So let's not hope what looks pretty bad won't come true. He also used a LOT of transposition in what he wrote in the quatrains/centuries, so is it "positive ray" for "RAYPOZ"?
Here's my plan:
1. Build LHD
2. Destroy the universe
3. ______
4. Money!
I have a pretty good idea for step 3. My problem at present is I can't figure out how I would spend the money if the universe no longer existed.
From what I understand through an article on /. the high energies of the Higgs Bison pretty much discredits string theory.
The Higgs boson mass is close to the upper limit of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, a specific type of supersymmetry. So it is not a problem to supersymmetry in general, or string theory at all.
If that were so, it'd be impressive for a theory that is supposed to be unfalsifiable.
I was hooked to this real-time monitoring when the LHC was operating two years ago : http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch...
Posting this in case anyone is interested.
Jicehix
Thank you for that typo... now I have that picture in my mind where a tribe of native americans, all of them wearing lab coats and glasses, are on their horses chasing the famed Higgs Bison!
Thank you for that typo... now I have that picture in my mind where a tribe of native americans, all of them wearing lab coats and glasses, are on their horses chasing the famed Higgs Bison!
The R? Not enough room in the subject line.
The Bison instead of Boson ;)
The Bison instead of Boson ;)
Oh yes, just learned how to spell it correctly just a few days ago :}