LHC particle-punisher in record 7 TeV hypercollisions

The Register ^ | 30th March 2010 11:45 GMT | Lewis Page

[snarkpup]

Earth apparently still here: Tinfoilers omelette-visaged

It's official: as this is written, the most powerful particle collisions ever achieved by the human race are taking place inside the great subterranean detector caverns of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

An initial hiccup this morning saw an overly-jumpy automatic protection system quench a magnet and dump one of the beams, but boffins at the colossal 27-km machine's controls fought back to re-establish a ring of lightspeed 3.5 tera-electron-volt (TeV) protons in the affected magno-doughnut in time for lunch.

[babble-on]

Go Boffins!

[DungeonMaster]

I wonder how the 7 Tev protons compare to the 4 trillion degrees achieved a couple of weeks ago.

[SpinnerWebb]

no doubt found it a trouser-moistening moment

Those Brits have a way with words, don't they?

[GraceG]

The Black Hole that was created just needs to eat more of the earth before it becomes a threat, right now it is just oscillating through the rock of the core, creating a tunnels 1nm in diameter as it slowly grows and hollows out the earth....

/tinfoil

[Walkingfeather]

Piece of crap flux capacitor....

[1rudeboy]

I never get tired of posting the following, and have they fired this sucker up to 100% yet? I'll press the button . . . hold muh beer.

Large Hadron Rap.

[Bean Counter]

For the Physics-impaired among us, “7 TeV” means Seven Trillion electron-Volts...that’s a lot...

[1rudeboy]

This webcam is pretty interesting, too.

[Moose4]

Seven trillion electron-volts. That’s a very big ZOT. I think JimRob and the Admin Mods should head over there, take it over, and test what seven trillion electron-volts does to trolls.

}:-)4

[piytar]

Webcams of the LHC online: http://www.lhcfeed.com/

[throwback]

magno-doughnut

Is this related to "closing the dough nut hole". Sorry, I dropped out of physics when I hit modern physics in the junior year. When things started becoming true and untrue at the same time, my brain shut down.

[piytar]

Dangit, you beat me to it by a few posts!

[darkside321]

Lol ;-)

[reagan_fanatic]

An initial hiccup this morning saw an overly-jumpy automatic protection system quench a magnet and dump one of the beams, but boffins at the colossal 27-km machine's controls fought back to re-establish a ring of lightspeed 3.5 tera-electron-volt (TeV) protons in the affected magno-doughnut in time for lunch.



"He said dump."

[SlowBoat407]

[throwback]

Thanks for the post. All my worries are gone. I’ll just wait here for the black hole.

[NeverForgetBataan]

Maybe the black hole will eat my TV, and me, during one of O’s press conferences.....

the misery will end.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Magno-dougnut

Sounds like something a really obese cop would eat.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Yes, I thought that was supposed to happen, too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzugu39pKM