The awesome thing about the LHC is that they expose loads of its operational details live on the web, so you can see what's happening right now in confusingly l

The awesome thing about the LHC is that they expose loads of its operational details live on the web, so you can see what's happening right now in confusingly large amounts of detail. "Page 1", which is the main accelerator status screen: http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/op-webtools/vistar/vistars.php?usr=LHC1 http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/op-webtools/vistar/vistars.ph... Operational status of the experiments: http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/op-webtools/vistar/vistars.php?usr=LHC3 http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/op-webtools/vistar/vistars.ph... Cycling status screens for the CMS experiment: http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cmscc/cmstv/cmstv.jsp?channel=4 http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cmscc/cmstv/cmstv.jsp?channel=4 Status for the LHCb detector: http://frankm.web.cern.ch/frankm/test/Online/Stomp/web http://frankm.web.cern.ch/frankm/test/Online/Stomp/web You can also find loads more links at http://lhcportal.com http://lhcportal.com