September 10th 2008, CERN

[GT4 genius]

Live webcam.

Awesome. 👍

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

OMG, run for your lives, you'll never guess what i just seen.

Wait a minute! Shouldnt I be dead by now??

Great find. 👍

It is a joke, isnt it!!

 

[Christhedude]

They're only 2 years late, so not as bad as Sony, cough*Home*cough! And they were never suppose to collide the particles yet. Although the will/should before the end of this year, probably not at the full 5TeV that the machine is capable of. But if things keep going at the rate they have today they could possibly be colliding things before the beginning of October. Like they set out today not expecting to get both streams of particles to do 1 complete lap of the LHC in opposite directions, but they had that done by 3 o clock their time. So they went on and did more experiments with it, I havent heard anything about them though, I think they just wanted to get the particles to do a few laps at a time and maybe increase the energy a bit.

ok thanks. i knew that they already were a little bit late hehe aka 2years but i was really looking forward to the results.

Chris

 

[Stevisiov]

Live webcam.

Awesome. 👍

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

 

[the Interceptor]

Good read about the "danger" of said experiments:

http://startswithabang.com/?p=878

 

[GT4 genius]

http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/11464/randd/little-bang-knocks-out-large-hadron-collider

Not all plain sailing so far. But they think it shouldn't effect the schedule too much.

 

[TigJackson]

Large Hadron Collider down for 2 months

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/20/hadron.collider.damage.ap/index.html

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Cue the puritans coming in saying this is proof we shouldn't be conducting the experiments ...

 

[Touring Mars]

Large Hadron Collider down for 2 months

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/20/hadron.collider.damage.ap/index.html

Meh, it's a science experiment, and they have to stick to the rules - 1) Thou experiment shalt never work on the first attempt 2) Thou wilst have to wait until machine is fixt and 3) Thou hast to look busy in the meantime.

I'm just glad my old boss is not in charge, otherwise it would be down for 2 years atleast

 

[Blake]

Cue the puritans coming in saying this is proof we shouldn't be conducting the experiments ...

Scary thought.

 

[Omnis]

Large Hadron Collider down for 2 months

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/20/hadron.collider.damage.ap/index.html

"Who left a french fry on Magnet 2?"

 

[Sureboss]

Meh, it's a science experiment, and they have to stick to the rules - 1) Thou experiment shalt never work on the first attempt 2) Thou wilst have to wait until machine is fixt and 3) Thou hast to look busy in the meantime.

I'm just glad my old boss is not in charge, otherwise it would be down for 2 years atleast

If only girlfriends went down for 2 years...

 

[wfooshee]

Ah! the answer at last!

I'm thinking the article's author is not convinced . . . . .

 

[Touring Mars]

Ha, I read a similar article the other day, hence the line in my signature...

Sounds like a handy excuse to me!

 

[GT4 genius]

CERN is back up and running again. Fingers, toes, arms etc crossed hoping that theres no issues similar to last year. But it appears they're feeling bullish already, the may go for a record equaling 1.2TeV before the end of the weekend! (I wonder do they get time and a half on Sundays?? ) Link

 

[Dotini]

if the world is swallowed up in a black hole, who would they report their findings to?

LHC can't create a black hole as you describe, but it can create a micro black hole...

In fact it can create quite a lot of odd things, just by smashing protons into each other at relativistic speeds.

The question is whether a micro black hole, if produced, poses any threat to anyone

Mind you, I did hear a theory on why we've not had any contact with intelligent alien life yet... Intelligence reaches a point where it makes a supercollider which destroys it

I believe Stephen Hawking amended his theory on black holes a while ago to say that if you went into one, you would come out somewhere else. However, I don't think even he knows how you would come out as you can't escape the pull of gravity, and you certainly wouldn't be able to send a signal back through.

An apocryphal parable about an astronomer from the University of Texas, a biologist, a police officer, an engineer, a corporate executive, and a commercial airline pilot who investigate a reported UFO alien abduction and find...a CERNitude experiment gone very, very wrong.

http://www.mysterious-america.net/realitych1209.html