Earliest LHC Restart Slated For Late Summer 2009

gaijinsr writes "The damage done in what CERN calls the 'S34 Incident' (and what other people call a major explosion in the cryogenics system) is much more serious than originally admitted: The earliest possible restart date is late summer next year, but with some proposed improvements to avoid repetitions of the incident, it looks more like 2010. They kept this pretty quiet up to now, not the kind of information policy I would expect from CERN."

Yay!

[MightyMartian]

The universe is saved for a couple of more years! Now's the time to form our new national holiday "Beat the Hell out of the Atheist Murderous Universe-destroying Physicists Day".

My prediction

[Kamokazi]

I bet the first time it is actually used in a full power experiment will be December 21, 2012.

bloody self-centered Amercians

[Anonymous Coward]

Late summer next year?

Well, since I'm australian, that puts the date in February 2009. That's not far off.

Oh, you arrogant, pig-headed Americans meant your summer? pfft...talk about self-centered

Re:Fortune cookie - fitting

[Spatial]

Ah, now I see. The black hole will be arranged such that there will be two cars in every pot. It's a method of expressing compression ratio without involving the Library of Congress.

Cut 'em some slack

[Shadow Wrought]

Keep in mind all information coming out of there has to escape the black hole's pull.

It didn't explode,

[KiwiCanuck]

it just heated up too fast and expanded too quickly. ~:-)

Summer Blockbusters

[MaxwellEdison]

The repairs will actually be done a little sooner, but they pushed back the release date so they wouldn't have to fight with Star Trek [startrekmovie.com], Transformers [imdb.com], or Harry friggin Potter [imdb.com]. Just be lucky Iron Man [imdb.com] is waiting until 2010 or we'd never get any sciencing or universe imploding done.

Re:Won't Ever Work

[bitrex]

God's design team tried to tell him the same thing after he insisted on creating man, and that worked out OK, didn't it?

Re:Yay!

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't tell you who I am but I work for the CERN. The news here say that the first collision is due to happen on December 12nd, 2012. So you can feel safe for now.

Whatever.

[IWood]

I've got my crowbar. Bring it on.

We will never see it work

[magi]

LHC is obviously a doomsday machine. Turning it on will immediately destroy humankind in all the parallel universes where it works. Therefore, in the universes where we stay alive, we will always see it fail. The failure proves the parallel structure of the universe.

Re:My prediction

[Anonymous Coward]

Will that really help? Dec. 22 where the LHC is also happens to be Dec. 21 in south America where that date comes from.

Some More Random Points

[Arthur Grumbine]

I work on the LHC experiments as well, so I'm posting anonymously, too.

1) The failure of the flux capacitor was actually the real cause of the shutdown (although this will never be released due to the humiliation that would be heaped upon them for such a simple mistake - see below).

2) Apparently no one told them that when you accelerated it beyond 88 mph (within the limit of their test runs) it would create a hole in time/space through which a moderately-priced novelty sports car (or something of equivalent mass) could travel.

3) They are currently searching 1985, 1955, and 1885 for the components that they lost as a result of the failure. They also plan to search 2015. Eventually.

4) They are currently in contract negotiations with Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and various other experts in the field. They expect that once the contracts are finalized the solution will be achieved between 108 and 118 minutes.

Re:"Slated for Late Summer 2009"

[lloydchristmas759]

Yes, and we'll have to wait for service pack 2 before it's really stable.

Re:Yay!

[JavaBear]

You mean like Hicks and Bosons getting hot and heavy under pressure?