Turning on the Large Hadron Collider

sheeny (Al) · #1 04-08-2008, 07:59 AM

The following article from Nature discusses the imminent commissioning of the Large Hadron Collider:

http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/.../nphys1040.pdf

Al.

JethroB76 (Jeff) · #2 04-08-2008, 09:48 PM

Haven't seen it posted but if has, apologies..great pics
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200..._collider.html

DARKMATTER · #3 10-08-2008, 07:26 AM

Wow

sheeny (Al) · #4 15-08-2008, 08:02 AM

This is from Nature Physics:

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080813/pdf/454815a.pdf

Al.

JimmyH155 · #5 15-08-2008, 01:00 PM

The big switch on is the 10th September AAAGGGGHHHHH

danielsun · #6 15-08-2008, 10:34 PM

WOW !!! Incredible pictures!!
This thing is absolutely massive!!!

So they have chosen the end of the world to be on Sep 10 ehh.....

sheeny (Al) · #7 27-08-2008, 08:02 AM

Commissioning tests at the LHC continue successfully. More from Nature:

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/0808...2008.1061.html

Al.

space oddity · #8 27-08-2008, 10:04 PM

What happenned with those couple of loonies who demanded the LHC be closed down because the mini black holes created would suck in the earth in a Hawkingesque nightmare ? I thought political correctness decreed that the more loony and minority the group , the more they are listened to

on the assumption they must be underpriviledged !
I for one, am looking forward to some interesting discoveries, even if we all get sucked in to a singularity - at least we will all get together as one

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avandonk · #9 27-08-2008, 10:34 PM

As it has been said before, high energy cosmic rays have more energy per particle that we can produce even in this new machine. The particles and the daughter products than can be studied under controlled conditions with very sophisticated detectors will give us insights into even smaller realms of subatomic processes.

It is your basic stupid non entity in the matters of any science that scream black holes and or the devil. It is sad really that this sort of crap journalism still persists.

So please do not help them!

Bert

sheeny (Al) · #10 10-09-2008, 07:39 AM

Nature has a series of "special" stories on the LHC:

http://www.nature.com/news/specials/lhc/index.html

Not sure if access is available freely to the public for all of them but some should be...

Al.

Liz · #11 10-09-2008, 12:16 PM

BBC Radio 4 are doing live broadcasting,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/

Kicks off at 08.30 Brit time, ?? about 6.30pm today.

Trido (Justin) · #12 10-09-2008, 05:50 PM

Most of it goes over my head, but physics and the LHC fascinate me. Can't wait to see what results they find.

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #13 11-09-2008, 09:22 AM

It would be funny if it wasn't so stupidly sad.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...51-401,00.html

Quote:

A TEENAGE girl in central India killed herself on Wednesday after being traumatised by media reports that a "Big Bang" experiment in Europe could bring about the end of the world, her father said.

The 16-year old girl from the state of Madhya Pradesh drank pesticide and was rushed to the hospital but later died, police said.

Her father, identified on local television as Biharilal, said that his daughter, Chayya, killed herself after watching doomsday predictions made on Indian news programmes.

"In the past two days, Chayya had asked me and other relatives about the world coming to an end on Sept. 10," Biharilal was quoted as saying.

"We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things, but to no avail."

For the past two days, many Indian news channels held discussions airing doomsday predictions over a huge particle-smashing machine buried under the Swiss-French border.

The machine, called the Large Hadron Collider, was switched on on Wednesday, at the start of what experts say is the largest scientific experiment in human history.

The machine smashes particles together to achieve, on a small-scale, re-enactments of the "Big Bang" that created the universe.

sheeny (Al) · #14 24-09-2008, 08:18 AM

A cable at the LHC has melted putting it out of action for some months:

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/0809...l/455436a.html

Al.

Mr. Subatomic · #15 02-10-2008, 09:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by avandonk

As it has been said before, high energy cosmic rays have more energy per particle that we can produce even in this new machine. The particles and the daughter products than can be studied under controlled conditions with very sophisticated detectors will give us insights into even smaller realms of subatomic processes.

It is your basic stupid non entity in the matters of any science that scream black holes and or the devil. It is sad really that this sort of crap journalism still persists.

So please do not help them!

Bert

I agree entirely! The type of media attention that the LHC has been receiving only highlights that there is a general scientific ignorance in the community. I've noticed that people see science as a novelty (especially with human space exploration), or are completely scared of it (as is the case with the LHC) because they fear they will find science too confronting. Some people are yet to discover the joys of science (as I'm sure many of you have found) and learn that science is equally a passion as it is a discipline.

jay michael (Jay) · #16 04-10-2008, 06:54 AM

live webcam feeds, amazing!
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Mr. Subatomic · #17 04-10-2008, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jay michael

live webcam feeds, amazing!
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Classic! Even better would be if a media station broadcast it as one of their doomsday stories (...cough FOX News! cough...).