"Oops..."
Posted on 06/20/2009 10:43:27 AM PDT by traumer
GENEVA (AP) — The world's largest atom smasher will likely be fired up again in October after scientists have carried out tests and put in place further safety measures to prevent a repeat of the faults that sidelined the $10 billion machine shortly after startup last year, the operator said Saturday.
The Large Hadron Collider was meant to restart in late September, but that will probably be pushed back two to three weeks, a spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research said.
"We're pretty confident about the dates," James Gillies told The Associated Press, adding that scientists believe they understand the error that happened last year and how to prevent it occurring again.
An electrical fault caused by a faulty splice in the wiring shut down the giant machine on Sept. 19, nine days after it was started up with great fanfare.
The 20-nation operator, known as CERN, expects repairs and additional safety systems to cost about 40 million Swiss francs ($37 million) over the course of several years, Gillies said.
Once it is running, scientists will use the machine to smash together protons from hydrogen atoms inside a 27-kilometer (17-mile) circular tunnel under the Swiss-French border near Geneva. By recording what particles are produced by the collisions they hope to better understand the makeup of the universe and everything in it.
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Keep it off till 2012....
The LHC has been an international welfare fund since inception IMO.
Ummmm. DUH! CERN is up there with CERT and ARPANET for TLAs and FLAs. And septuplet (is that right?) letter acronyms.
Anybody still routing reverse bang notation address in their mail servers? Are you sure you don't have a MX rule that covers it?
/johnny
{after} scientists have carried out tests and put in place further safety measures,and they tell the public the thing won’t go BOOM big bang #2.
i love it when you see these documentaries and the scientist or narrator will say:
“scientists are trying to create the ‘big bang’ in a laboratory”
yea... how do you know that’s not what happened before?
A Big Bang within a Big Bang within a Big Bang withing a Big Bang. I get it! It is like looking into a mirror when you have another mirror behind you
They don't know how to make their machine runs safely for a month at a time, but ASSURE us it is SAFE. Ya, right.
Large Hadron Collider is a European way of saying "Hold my beer and watch this."
So, we have ‘til October until they transport us all to Bizarro World.
(Somebody call them and tell them it’s too late.)
LOL!
"Oops..."
By then we’ll know if Dr. Arata’s Cold Fusion experiment has been replicated.
The End of Snide Remarks Against Cold Fusion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2265914/posts
Friday, June 05, 2009 5:56:08 PM · by Kevmo · 95 replies · 1,382+ views
Free Republic, Gravitronics.net and Intrade ^ | 6/5/09 | kevmo, et al
The Suppression of Inconvenient Facts in Physics
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2266921/posts
Sunday, June 07, 2009 7:50:26 PM · by Kevmo · 76 replies · 1,100+ views
Suppressed Science.Net ^ | 12/06/08 | http://www.suppressedscience.net/
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