The LHC Is Back Online 123
medea and several other readers noted that the LHC came back online early this morning. Here is the tweet from CERN announcing the milestone. As we discussed a few weeks ago, CERN plans to run the LHC at half power or less through 2011.
Re:its because the olympics are over (Score:5, Interesting)
If you're curious, here's some info on the magnetic declination in Canada. Scroll down for images. Last time I checked there was a significant change in declination from one year to the next. Government of Canada [nrcan.gc.ca]
Re:Food for conspiracy theorists: (Score:1, Interesting)
The "conspiracy theorists" forgot to include all the huge earthquakes in non-populated areas, like Antarctica. :P Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the antarctic plate rebound is not accelerating earthquakes elsewhere.