LHC To Start Back Up In November At Half Power 110
mcgrew writes to mention that the Large Hadron Collider, smasher of particles, will get another chance to prove itself this November. The restart will begin with tests at half power, a mere 7 trillion electron volts (TeV), and ramp up slowly to the designed goal of 14 TeV. "Measurements indicate that some of the electrical connections could not safely handle the amount of current needed to run at the full 14 TeV, so will need to be replaced before dialing up the energy that far. But even 7 TeV is much higher than physicists have ever probed in the laboratory before. The Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, is the current record holder, with collisions at 2 TeV."
Only half (Score:5, Funny)
Feats of engineering miscommunication. (Score:1, Funny)
I'm still skeptical... I'd like to see the all the work that was done on the LHC that was outsourced. There had to be quite a bit of miscommunication for the scale of the problems this machine has had. Still, I hope they get this working! I want to hear about Higgs boson!
Re:So, (Score:5, Funny)
they've been soldering those wires. They should you thicker ones if they want higher current
I was at BestBuy a few years ago and heard the blue-shirted drone tell these guys "Look, you have to use Monster Cable for your Hadron collider."
Did they listen? No!
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Re:Only half (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like they are right on schedule for their planned full power-up on December 21, 2012.
Fun with units... (Score:5, Funny)
It always kinda amuses* me to remember that 7 TeV is equal to ~1 microJoule. So this incredibly massive and complicated machine is required just to reach energies that are a million times less than what I can get by flicking my pinky finger. Though they do put all that energy into a single subatomic particle and carefully guide them into hitting each other right in front of their detectors, while every time I try to flick a proton with my finger I end up hitting a ton of them and they go flying off every which way, so I guess we still need the LHC.
* Yes I am easily amused, why do you ask?
Dammit, will you stop posting LHC articles?! (Score:3, Funny)
Now I can't get that song out of my head again. "LHCB sees where the anti-matter's gone. ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions. CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind. They're looking for whatever new particles they can find..."
Argh!
Only 7TeV? (Score:4, Funny)
I'll be more impressed when they turn it up to 11.
Re:Only half (Score:5, Funny)
There is actually a website available here [hasthelarg...rldyet.com] that monitors the situation and gives real-time updates on the status of the LHC.
Re:Only half (Score:2, Funny)
Get this "hardon" two bath tubs outside side-by-side and some Levitra* stat!
*is it Levitra? I don't remember, as I'm not a user of said pills**...yet.
**YMMV
It's like a casino... (Score:4, Funny)
"LHC To Start Back Up In November At Half Power"
Any bets that it will not?
Vegas should start a pool, I'm sure it would be a hit with the betters.
Meh. (Score:1, Funny)
This has never happened before, I swear! (Score:4, Funny)
The restart will begin with tests at half power, a mere 7 trillion electron volts (TeV), and ramp up slowly to the designed goal of 14 TeV.
So I guess you could say that the Large Hadron Collider is being treated for electron dysfunction.
Rob
Re:Meh. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fun with units... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Only half (Score:5, Funny)
There is actually a website available here [hasthelarg...rldyet.com] that monitors the situation and gives real-time updates on the status of the LHC.
What's amusing is if you view the page source of that link. There's even a nifty comment there: "if the lhc actually destroys the earth & this page isn't yet updated please email mike@frantic.org to receive a full refund" Going to email Mikey and ask for a refund. Maybe he won't check.
Re:So, (Score:3, Funny)
Did they listen? No!
Not true. I heard they tried to buy the proper cable but attempted [thathomesite.com] to pay with $2 bills and were promptly arrested ;)
Re:Temporary! (Score:4, Funny)
I wonder if it would be be louder if they turned the dial all the way up to 11 TeV.
Re:Only half (Score:1, Funny)
Because of quantum mechanics, we can only know about half of the quantum state of a system.
I'm hoping the LHC destroys only the half we don't know about. Out of sight, out of mind, I say.
Re:Only half (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Temporary! (Score:3, Funny)
Think of the possibilties (Score:1, Funny)
I, for one, can not wait to be goatse'd in 3D.