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LHC reaches operational temps, collisions start in 5 weeks

32 points by abraham 17y ago

mrshoe 17y ago
It's news like this that makes me wish that http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ had an RSS feed. Edit: looks like they added one. Now I can allow myself to sleep again.
- DarkShikari 17y ago
  It does. http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/rss.xml http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/rss.xml
- icey 17y ago
  Viewing the source on that site is much more fun than the site itself.
  - joshu 17y ago
    > this is the fault of daniel drucker dmd@3e.org The 14-year-old wizard himself. A net.legend!
- anshulk 17y ago
  Oh but that is just wrong. See for yourself... http://qntm.org/?board http://qntm.org/?board
jmtame 17y ago
"The idea is to run the LHC over the winter at half its rated power before bringing the collision energy up to its full 14 tera electron volts (TeV) sometime next spring. At that point, we should see... well, we're not entirely sure what." Kind of laughed at that part.
- gloob 17y ago
  I would put money down that what we'll see is it breaking again.
jgrahamc 17y ago
I did a trip there last month and it was excellent to see the equipment close up. Will be fascinating when it starts up again. http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/09/geek-side-trip-cern.html http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/09/geek-side-trip-cern.html
- kierank 17y ago
  To CERN's credit they do a very good job with tours. It was even better when you could go inside before it was closed up.
rms 17y ago
How many years of failure would it take before you would seriously consider this hypothesis? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article6879293.ece http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolut... 5 years for me.
- DannoHung 17y ago
  How many operational failures were there, exactly? I think it was at least 2 or 3 fairly large setbacks, right? I guess the problem here is just how damn long the system takes to cycle up and down. I imagine if the LHC could turn on and off within a few hours we would have seen the entire facility blow up if the theory were true.
- robryan 17y ago
  I propose an alternate theory in which the LHC does destroy the world thereby never allowing time travel to be developed.

32 points by abraham 17y ago

It's news like this that makes me wish that http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ had an RSS feed. Edit: looks like they added one. Now I can allow myself to sleep again.

DarkShikari 17y ago
It does. http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/rss.xml http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/rss.xml
icey 17y ago
Viewing the source on that site is much more fun than the site itself.
- joshu 17y ago
  > this is the fault of daniel drucker dmd@3e.org The 14-year-old wizard himself. A net.legend!
anshulk 17y ago
Oh but that is just wrong. See for yourself... http://qntm.org/?board http://qntm.org/?board

jmtame 17y ago

"The idea is to run the LHC over the winter at half its rated power before bringing the collision energy up to its full 14 tera electron volts (TeV) sometime next spring. At that point, we should see... well, we're not entirely sure what." Kind of laughed at that part.

gloob 17y ago
I would put money down that what we'll see is it breaking again.

jgrahamc 17y ago

I did a trip there last month and it was excellent to see the equipment close up. Will be fascinating when it starts up again. http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/09/geek-side-trip-cern.html http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/09/geek-side-trip-cern.html

kierank 17y ago
To CERN's credit they do a very good job with tours. It was even better when you could go inside before it was closed up.

rms 17y ago

How many years of failure would it take before you would seriously consider this hypothesis? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article6879293.ece http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolut... 5 years for me.

DannoHung 17y ago
How many operational failures were there, exactly? I think it was at least 2 or 3 fairly large setbacks, right? I guess the problem here is just how damn long the system takes to cycle up and down. I imagine if the LHC could turn on and off within a few hours we would have seen the entire facility blow up if the theory were true.
robryan 17y ago
I propose an alternate theory in which the LHC does destroy the world thereby never allowing time travel to be developed.