Large Hadron Collider 'mostly repaired'

[Christine Murray]

l am adding the CERN Twitter for those who wish follow the LHC story : CERN (CERN) on Twitter

[zakalwe1]

thanks...

read a good article on the LHC in the examiner, some scientist in japan thinks that people from the future have sabotaged it and that it'll never work as a result!

i went to see the construction in jun 2008, was in the two control rooms and looked at the smaller colliders. really excited about the possibilities!!!

[Christine Murray]

so follow the haps : CERN (CERN) on Twitter . From the coalface as it were

[Christine Murray]

last evening the LHC worked. l followed on Twitter, there were *splash particles* : http://www.twitter.com/CERN . CERN has images available at link ^ . Vid here : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8371662.stm

[eyeswideopen]

CERN atom-smasher restarts after 14-month hiatus: official

Good little update here.

"The first tests of injecting sub-atomic particles began around 1600 (1500 GMT)," CERN spokesman James Gillies told AFP.

He said the injections lasted a fraction of a second, enough for "a half or even a complete circuit" of the Large Hadron Collider built in a 27-kilometre (17-mile) long tunnel straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.

CERN's director general Rolf Heuer said later the scientists had been successful and that they had been able to go ahead earlier than expected.

"If all goes well tonight we will try to circulate a beam of particles for several minutes around 0700 (0600 GMT)," on Saturday, added Gillies.

CERN had said in August that upon its relaunch, the LHC will run at 3.5 teraelectronvolts in order to allow its operators to gain experience of running the machine.

The first data should be collected a few weeks after the first particle beam is fired.

CERN said the partial power level will be kept until "a significant data sample has been gathered" and ramped up thereafter.

The project has been plagued by technical breakdowns for years and seems to be a massive "poke it to see what will happen" exercise.

[eyeswideopen]

[QUOTE=zakalwe1;2284811]thanks...

read a good article on the LHC in the examiner, some scientist in japan thinks that people from the future have sabotaged it and that it'll never work as a result!

i went to see the construction in jun 2008, was in the two control rooms and looked at the smaller colliders. really excited about the possibilities!!![/QUOTE]

Modern physics seems weird to me because so much of it has been so speculative/unproven for so long. What do you think might come out of these experiments if they "work" ?

[Cato]

Cern restarts Hadron Collider - The Irish Times - Sat, Nov 21, 2009

[Christine Murray]

Anatolla is on the decks now : CERN (CERN) on Twitter

[Garland Names the Planets]

Ok Atom smashers let's start smashing some damned atoms and see what's going on

[Christine Murray]

Animation here : http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1125472