and had been wondering about the notation "leap second" on the Wednesday of week 27 of 2015. This posting now makes me understand what is going on. I can imagine lots of consequences for the both the machine (think of how far in the lab frame a 7.5 TeV proton goes in 1 s) and the enormous (at least enormous if you aren't Amazon, Apple, Google, or Microsoft) pile of HTC servers on 6 continents we use to reduce the data into Nobel prizes (hopefully prizes plural...).
Slashdot Mirror
For several months I have been checking on the on the official LHC schedule:
https://espace.cern.ch/be-dep/...
and had been wondering about the notation "leap second" on the Wednesday of week 27 of 2015. This posting now makes me understand what is going on. I can imagine lots of consequences for the both the machine (think of how far in the lab frame a 7.5 TeV proton goes in 1 s) and the enormous (at least enormous if you aren't Amazon, Apple, Google, or Microsoft) pile of HTC servers on 6 continents we use to reduce the data into Nobel prizes (hopefully prizes plural...).
Fred