Posted on 02/10/2009 2:52:53 PM PST by xcamel
GENEVA — Additional safety features being added to the world's largest atom smasher will postpone its startup until the end of September, a year after the $10 billion machine was sidelined by a simple electrical fault, the operator said Tuesday.
The cost of the repairs and added safety features has yet to be determined, but it will be covered by the regular budget of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, spokeswoman Christine Sutton said.
The 20-nation organization, known as CERN, has said previously that repairs will cost at least 25 million Swiss francs ($21.5 million), but the amount appears to have risen since scientists could review the extent of the damage and devise new safety features.
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Boo! I hope the LHC doesn’t end up being a boondoggle.
Boo! I hope the LHC doesn’t end up being a boondoggle...”
Ha ha! Too late for that.
I hear they’re looking for the mythical “free mason” or was it the “hava gluon”
Only the ones in Europe. The Black Holes in Washington D.C. are doing their worst in full force.
Its the end of the world as we know it. Its the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
Actually black holes would be an alternate solution to terrorist and socialist problem.....
I always thought DC was full of bozons.
is this the machine where scientists were only “a little bit worried” about creating a black hole that would act like....well.....a black hole?
LHC — turn it on, and it blows a massive helium fart...
just a little joke!!! It is hilarious!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzugu39pKM
Why? Are they waiting for their Hadron Converter Box Coupons?
“Almost certain” was about the same answer that J. Robert Oppenheimer gave when he asked if the nuclear bomb tests he did for Project Manhattan would set off the entire world.
black holes on hold...
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That’s Racist! </sarcasm>
Is that a lot of money? I honestly have no idea any more.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2991
Test of Influence from Future in Large Hadron Collider; A Proposal
Authors: Holger B. Nielsen, Masao Ninomiya (Submitted on 21 Feb 2008 (v1), last revised 11 Jul 2008 (this version, v2))
Abstract: We have earlier proposed the idea of making card drawing experiment of which outcome potentially decides whether Large Hadron Collider (LHC for short) should be closed or not. The purpose is to test theoretical models which, like e.g. our own model that has an imaginary part of the action with much a similar form to that of the real part. The imaginary part has influence on the initial conditions not only in the past but even from the future. It was speculated that all accelerators producing large amounts of Higgs particles like the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC for short) would call for initial conditions to have been so arranged as to finally not allow these accelerators to come to work. If there were such effects we could perhaps provoke a very clear cut "miracle" by having the effect make the drawn card be the one closing LHC. Here we shall, however, discuss that a total closing is hardly needed and seek to calculate how one could perform checking experiment for the proposed type of influence from future to be made in the statistically least disturbing and least harmful way.
We shall also discuss how to extract most information about our effect or model in the unlikely case that a card restricting the running of LHC or the Tevatron would be drawn at all, by estimating say the relative importance of high beam energy or of high luminosity for the purpose of our effect.
I wonder if that certainty is of the same type that spawned the electrical problem. Imagine that a simple 10 cent capacitor might go out and "almost certainly" destroy the planet. Talk about save the planet? Global warming What? SAve us from the scientists.
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