First Collisions At the LHC

An anonymous reader writes "At 1:06 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST) today, the first protons collided at 7 TeV in the Large Hadron Collider. These first collisions, recorded by the LHC experiments, mark the start of the LHC's research program."

Surprised

[impaledsunset]

I'm quite suprised that I can reach Slashdot's server now that Earth is destroyed and gone.

obligatory

[Anonymous Coward]

this is all sfw. and you've probably seen them already. (but I wouldn't blame you for not trusting an AC seeing as how we are in a pathetically paranoid game theory induced society... anyways, i digress)

http://www.nulleando.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/freeman.jpg [nulleando.com.ar]

http://www.rodrigoflausino.com.br/wp-content/imagens/games/half_life/half_life_lhc_02.jpg [rodrigoflausino.com.br]

Re:Surprised

[Fzz]

All the other versions of you in all the other branches of spacetime are toast. The only branch of spacetime where you can still reach Slashdot's server is this one where you got really lucky.

Re:This may be the biggest experiment of all

[symes]

I'm not sure this is possible. I once had a beer with an almost eminent particle physicist. We kind of agreed that if this is the "ultimate" God particle then funding for particle physics could be under serious threat. What is the point in funding LHC type experiments if there are no more particles to be found? After a few more beers we hypothesised that the God particle must be constructed from, not particles, but something else a little bit like lego. And that the only way to understand this lego-like property of ultimate particles was lots of particle physicists working full time for many years on LHC-II.

Coincidence

[hallucinogen]

While watching the webcast, just seconds away from the first collisions, the stream went down. I was like w000t! You have no idea how disappointed I was as I realized that it was just my shitty wifi..

Re:Higgs

[Scutter]

How about now?

I had this image in my head of them finding it in the first collision and then shutting down this hugely expensive experiment as redundant now that the HB was found.

Re:Resources

[RDW]

The live webcams are also worth checking out:

'Camera 7: looking at the Underground Experimental Cavern from the Saleve side.'
'Camera 8: looking out of the window of the 1st Floor of the SCX building that houses the CMS Control room.'

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html [cyriak.co.uk]

Re:Surprised

[WrongSizeGlass]

I'm quite suprised that I can reach Slashdot's server now that Earth is destroyed and gone.

Welcome to Cachedot.org, impaledsunset. Your new user ID is '6'. May all your sunsets be impaled.

Re:Excellent news!

[quenda]

P.S. The labs down the hall that participate in the collaboration will be partying tonight :)

You can tell because they have undone an extra button on their lab coats, and are drinking full-sugar coke.

First collisions...not involving a baguette

[ruark]

The title could be a little more precise. This is not technically the first collision at the LHC. http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/0824213/LHC-Shut-Down-Again-mdash-By-Baguette-Dropping-Bird [slashdot.org]

More than 1h of stable beam...

[Anonymous Coward]

...and no blackhole yet !

http://mediaarchive.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Photo/Public/2010/1003062/1003062_07/1003062_07-A4-at-144-dpi.jpg :)

MIT Ph.D now out of work

[Nighttime]

Hangs up his orange suit and crowbar.

Re:Surprised

[Mashdar]

Phew. Solved that whole cat dilemma, then.

Re:This may be the biggest experiment of all

[Hurricane78]

I wonder if they will go the Dark Matter/Energy way, and simply call the universe wrong. ^^

First Collisions at the LHC

[Yvan256]

Whoever it was, I hope they're insured.

Re:Surprised

[moosesocks]

All the other versions of you in all the other branches of spacetime are toast. The only branch of spacetime where you can still reach Slashdot's server is this one where you got really lucky.

Ah. The many-trolls hypothesis.

Re:We hit 7 TeV, but how much more to go?

[Odin's Raven]

You might as well ask whether a rock is an introvert or an extrovert.

Definitely introverts. I've sat and talked to rocks all day long, and they hardly ever say a thing back. Talk about shy. Way different than daisies - those things never stop chattering. Total extroverts. (What's that you say, Mr. Day-Glo Green Squirrel? Another tab of acid? Oh, I really couldn't. Well, okay, if you're sure there's enough for everyone.)

Re:Antichrist!!

[david_thornley]

You'd think he might of had a bit of foresight and brought a rain of frogs or an earth shattering meteor down upon us before we got to the LHC elementary particle level of curiosity.

Yeah, a pigeon with a piece of bread just doesn't seem to measure up to Old Testament standards.