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."
Re:Temporary! (Score:2, Insightful)
Did anyone else envision one of the three stooges in a lab coat saying "hoyepfully" when they read this?
Re:Only half (Score:3, Insightful)
Alternately, if the web site is down, assume the black hole has expanded enough to suck in the web server...