LHC Hits an Energy of 3.5TeV 149
Inovaovao writes "As announced on Twitter by the CMS experiment, the LHC has finally accelerated both beams to 3.5 TeV for the first time. It thus broke the previous energy record of 1.18 TeV it had set last fall, about a month since operations started again this year. It'll be a while yet before we see stable beams and collisions at 3.5 TeV. You won't get much of a clue to the timetable by reading the General Manager's pompous announcements. If you want to follow what's going on, look at the Status Ops."
Re:The press release is one week old (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The press release is one week old (Score:5, Funny)
That's not pompous, that's just German thoughts translated into English ;).
Re:Not pompous, (Score:4, Funny)
It's pretty outrageous calling the Director General's web update pompous.
I'd say you were new around here (as kdawson is not known for his intellectual musings), but damn it Anonymous Coward, you've been posting here for longer than I have - so you should know better than to write crap like that.
Re:How many Libraries of Congress (Score:5, Funny)
Re:1.21 gigawatts? (Score:3, Funny)
I'd explain it all to you, but we don't have time! Well, time is very relative. When it reaches 3.6 TeV, it will open a rift in time that will launch the entire planet back in time. Most likely none of us will ever remember it, so we'll let it happen over and over until ...
[LHC reaches 3.6 TeV, and the loop begins again....]
Re:If both beams are 3.5 TeV (Score:5, Funny)
It is true, however, that cosmic ray collisions completely kill the "LHC will destroy the world" bullshit.
Ah, but you forget that cosmics ray hadrons are natural and organically grown, unlike those nasty synthetic LHC ones which cause obesity, cancer and black holes. Plus they don't taste as good.
Re:The press release is one week old (Score:3, Funny)
That's not pompous, that's just German thoughts translated into English ;).
You seem to have confused country and language. Those are Swiss thoughts translated into English
Schwyzer Duetsch? Make it twice pompous!
LHC Webcam (Score:4, Funny)
This is good news. Check out their webcam. [cyriak.co.uk]