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CERN Large Hadron Collider restarts with redoubled energy
Deutsche Welle ^ | 3/12/2015 | Tatiana Ivanova

Posted on 03/22/2015 7:10:57 PM PDT by jonatron

At the end of March, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will be up and running after a remodeling break of over two years. Physicists said on Thursday they hoped it would open the door to an even deeper understanding of our universe, now that the accelerator has twice the energy as before.

"We are all very excited," CERN director Rolf-Dieter Heuer said at the opening of a press conference on Thursday, adding that the accelator would be reactivated during the final week of March, pending final tests.

Since its initial launch in 2008, CERN researchers in Geneva have been using the 27-kilometer-long particle accelerator to smash protons together at just under the speed of light. Directly after the collision, the particles break up into their smallest building blocks, like Hadrons and Bosons. One of them is the Higgs-Boson, a particle that was previously only known as a theoretical quantity, but its existence was physically proven just before the LHC was shut down three years ago. The particles are recorded with huge sensors that have a similar function to light-detecting chips in digital cameras.


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KEYWORDS: cern; stringtheory
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1 posted on 03/22/2015 7:10:58 PM PDT by jonatron
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To: BenLurkin

ping


2 posted on 03/22/2015 7:11:33 PM PDT by jonatron (Land of the Free, Home of the Brave)
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I wonder what new discoveries they will make?


3 posted on 03/22/2015 7:19:14 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: jonatron
Fire that sucker up! Let's get goin'!
Large Hadron Rap.
4 posted on 03/22/2015 7:21:23 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: jonatron
Well,alrighty then.We'll get that black hole yet.
5 posted on 03/22/2015 7:25:28 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: garjog

Me too!


6 posted on 03/22/2015 7:27:44 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: 1rudeboy

Hahaha....You put the party into subatomic particles, yo!


7 posted on 03/22/2015 7:31:42 PM PDT by jonatron (Land of the Free, Home of the Brave)
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To: jonatron
after a remodeling break of over two years

New cabinets, appliances, redo the plumbing and electricity. But still, two years? Get a better contractor next time!

8 posted on 03/22/2015 7:42:15 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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Kickstart my heart! - Mötley Crüe. Seems to be a good tune to play as they fire up the CERN.


9 posted on 03/22/2015 7:50:47 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: jonatron

I don’t know much about CERN but it seems that if something goes wrong, it would not be a good thing.


10 posted on 03/22/2015 7:55:01 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: jonatron

Thanks!


11 posted on 03/22/2015 8:22:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.a)
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To: garjog

I hope it is solar powered for the sake of the environment. Global warming en all.


12 posted on 03/22/2015 8:22:17 PM PDT by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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13 posted on 03/22/2015 8:28:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.a)
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Alpine Kat.... ....is running a live feed.

I just captured this screen shot ....

14 posted on 03/22/2015 8:31:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.a)
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15 posted on 03/22/2015 8:32:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.a)
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To: jonatron
the 27-kilometer-long particle accelerator

subatomic particles

That wouldn't happen to qualify as a "plasma conduit" now would it?

16 posted on 03/22/2015 8:33:15 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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17 posted on 03/22/2015 8:36:15 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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“I wonder what new discoveries they will make?”

With that kind of energy they now ought to be able to find the elusive Biggs Hoson particle.


18 posted on 03/22/2015 8:56:12 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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19 posted on 03/22/2015 8:59:52 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks for the cool picture. That’s what I’m thinking but am probably totally wrong.


20 posted on 03/22/2015 9:24:36 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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