LHC Successfully Cools To 1.9K In Lead-Up To Restart 177
Smelly Jeffrey writes "The BBC is reporting that the LHC has had all eight of its sectors cooled to 1.9 Kelvin. Their tagline is that it is now 'colder than deep space,' referring to the CMB. LHC engineers have spent nearly $40,000,000 USD on a new system to prevent the 'quench' condition that caused the LHC to be down for warming, repairs, and re-cooling over the last year. The LHC is now cold enough to begin colliding particles in search of the Higgs Boson. High power collisions won't be started until late December, or perhaps early January. However, a low-power beam through parts of the collider could be tested as early as next week!"
Cool! (Score:5, Funny)
I knew it! (Score:1, Funny)
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It's a sign, they're going to kill us all!
Re:Cool! (Score:4, Funny)
Where's my goddamned time machine? Hey! Dr. John Bell! Would you quit yer damn' canoodling with 23rd century freemasons, and help me find the damn time machine? I left my electron microscope in the alternate omniverse, and can't see the damn time machine anymore!
Hurry, man! I have some more magnets to go break in Switzewhen.
Well it's about time. (Score:3, Funny)
Better double-check... (Score:5, Funny)
Has the LHC destroyed the Earth yet?
NO [hasthelhcd...eearth.com]
Good. Carry on.
Re:Cool! (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, we're having a windows 7 party too.
Re:Somone from the future will put a stop to it al (Score:3, Funny)
I'll keep an eye out for Doc Brown and his Delorean
Re:40 MILLION USD (Score:4, Funny)
Mini blackholes will suck up the deficits.
Large Hardon Collider could corrupt civilisation (Score:5, Funny)
The Large Hardon Collider [today.com] is designed to pump various types of hardon up to huge energies before banging them together. However, many concerned citizens without the personal experience or understanding of what hardons do worry at the idea of the large hardons being sucked deep into a black hole.
The device will push large, energised hardons through a ring repeatedly, faster and faster, as smoothly and tightly as possible, until they clash and spray matter in all directions. “It’s nothing that cosmic rays don’t do all the time all over the place,” reassured a particularly buff scientist. “It’s perfectly right and natural.”
Low-energy hardon physics and the temperature dependence of hardon production are well understood, as is the process of a hardon smoothly entering the nucleus. But some question what may happen at greater, hotter energies.
Church leaders have come out at the device. “They’re the same polarity!” said Pope Palpatine XVI. The Church worries that strange matter may recruit normal matter and turn it strange.
The Large Hardon Collider was to launch last September, but this has been delayed due to inexplicable and ill-timed failure to get a beam up. “I’m so sorry,” stammered a scientist, “this has never happened to us before.”
Re:Better double-check... (Score:2, Funny)
Better put a mirror site on the moon in case.
Re:If it's not in operation... (Score:5, Funny)
You mean they're spending like there's no tomorrow? Hmmmm.
Re:Wrong summary (Score:5, Funny)
2. Couldn't this say $40,000,000 USD (FORTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) to be more dramatic?
It's European, not Nigerian.
Re:Better double-check... (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, but my results differ
http://qntm.org/?board [qntm.org]
Re:40 MILLION USD (Score:4, Funny)
>*Knock Knock* Hi, its the rest of the world here at your door, we'd love for you to come out and visit sometime!
But whenever we do, you guys tell us to go home! Is that because of our obsession for things that go boom, or some other issue?
Re:Cool! (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, we're having a windows 7 party too.
Curse you for killing my "colder than Vista's reception" joke!
Re:Cool! (Score:2, Funny)
1900 degrees ??!? (Score:3, Funny)
Doesn't seem very cool to me, in any commonly used temperature scale!
Re:Large Hardon Collider could corrupt civilisatio (Score:1, Funny)
I'm dyslexic, and I don't get this.
Re:more fun than a windows 7 launch party (Score:3, Funny)
Do they throw in a chair with that one ?
Re:more fun than a windows 7 launch party (Score:3, Funny)
The earth won't be destroyed according to Hawking (Score:5, Funny)
Here's what Hawking said when giving his Michelson-Morley award lecture [youtube.com]: