Europe's LHC To Run At Half-Energy Through 2011 194
quaith writes "ScienceInsider reports that Europe's Large Hadron Collider will run at half its maximum energy through 2011 and likely not at all in 2012. The previous plan was to ramp it up to 70% of maximum energy this year. Under the new plan, the LHC will run at 7 trillion electron-volts through 2011. The LHC would then shut down for a year so workers could replace all of its 10,000 interconnects with redesigned ones allowing the LHC to run at its full 14 TeV capacity in 2013. The change raises hopes at the LHC's lower-energy rival, the Tevatron Collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, of being extended through 2012 instead of being shut down next year. Fermilab researchers are hoping that their machine might collect enough data to beat the LHC to the discovery of the Higgs boson, a particle key to how physicists explain the origin of mass."
Half-measures (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Half-measures (Score:1, Funny)
Fortunately the scale is logarithmic.
Unfortunately, it's not positively correlated.
Re:Half-measures (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Half-measures (Score:5, Funny)
Nope, we need to be fully afraid that it will destroy half the world. Hopefully the other half.
the Source of all the risk (Score:5, Funny)
I'm scared for all the half-lives at risk.
But what about all the counter-strikes and the portals?
Full speed in 2013?? (Score:5, Funny)
Uh, HEL-LO?!! Have you guys forgotten that the world is going to end in 2012?!! I think you might want to ramp it up all the way in 2011...just in case.
Re:Half-measures (Score:2, Funny)
no, it just means they'll be right on schedule for the end of the world in 2012 when they crank it up to full power.
Re:My LHC... (Score:1, Funny)
It brings all the boys to your yard...
Re:Where is the Outrage... (Score:3, Funny)
I think you misunderstand how larger government woks projects are run, and why.
Not if he's Chinese.
Another way to look at it (Score:5, Funny)
In an equally optimistic point of view, if Higgs boson is later shown to not exist, the Tevatron Collider can claim that it was able to not find it before the LHC!
So the bird was carrying a sliced bagel this time (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Where is the Outrage... (Score:4, Funny)
At least its still spelled correctly, even if it is a grammatical abomination.
Re:Where is the Outrage... (Score:1, Funny)
Frankly, I'm a little sick of the "outrage" every time something doesn't go as planned. Since when does the universe have to play nice all the time?
Hello? Since Obama was elected. Duh.
Re:Half-measures (Score:2, Funny)
Where is Gordon Freeman when you need him?!?
Re:Where is the Outrage... (Score:5, Funny)
Not that I believe that sort of thing but it is the first thought that popped in my head while reading the summary.