Large Hadron Collider 'mostly repaired'

[Catalpa]

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!!!

They are messing about with forces, that by their own admission they know next to nothing about...

What could possibly go wrong?

[the_beat]

A key aim of the LHC is to find the elusive Higgs Boson - nicknamed the "God Particle" - which is believed by theoretical physicists to explain the existence of mass.

9 o`clock, 11 o`clock or that heathen 7pm one on a Saturday night ?

Have we really come this far? Wow...

[zakalwe1]

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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" ?

basically the current laws of physics state that the universes "balance sheet" should balance (due to laws of thermodynamics etc).

currently, physicists can only explain 3% of the universe's mass....they're hoping that they might find the "higgs bosun" particle that balances the equation. it is called the god particle because of its symmetry (speculated).
in reality they can only speculate what it looks like becuase of negative induction. so they really don't know what they'll find that'll balance the equation.

interestingly (or perhaps not) hawkins has bet £70 with another physicist that the particle will not be found.

who knows!!!???

[Christine Murray]

updates here : CERN (CERN) on Twitter

[mr_anderson]

LHC closing for another year ...

BBC News - LHC to shut down for a year to address design faults

Must be that person from the future again trying to prevent the black hole from emerging.

[Darthweasel]

Damn Doc Brown.

[lostexpectation]

brian cox is going mad! over poore reporting, its going to run for 12 months and then shut down

[toughbutfair]

Remember the nutters saying this would end the world - those lunatics give me a life , like the people terrified of the swine flu that would wipe us out. Hilarious the stuff people get scared about.

I don't know much about this particular issue, must read up on it, but anything scientific I support.

[darkknight]

brian cox is going mad! ...

He certainly is!

Brian Cox (ProfBrianCox) on Twitter

I just saw the BBC "news" story about LHC schedule - I know I'm a BBC person but it's really shoddy! This kind of thing really annoys me.

ALL particle accelerators have 6 - 12 month regular shutdowns for maintenance and upgrades. That's how complex machines are operated !

Its bloody running now, and will run until the end of 2011 !!! AAARRGGHH

For the very last time - the #lhc story is a pile of merde, as we say at CERN. Scheduled maintenance stops are not bloody news !

:mrgreen:


Did anyone watch Brian Cox's 'Empire of the Sun' on BBC2 last night? It's the first of 5 programmes on 'Wonders of the Solar System'. Really excellent!
BBC - BBC Two Programmes - Wonders of the Solar System

[Mitsui2]

Did anyone watch Brian Cox's 'Empire of the Sun' on BBC2 last night? It's the first of 5 programmes on 'Wonders of the Solar System'. Really excellent!

A glitch in my Sky+ cost me the last 5 mins or so but I certainly watched the rest. Fab-looking series that I'd hoped to keep on dvd so I'm praying there's a repeat of episode 1.