Collider stuffed again

[JimmyH155]

Yes - it is going to go out of action for one whole year in 2011 AAAAGGGGGHHHHH
What a shame. More stuff wrong with the tunnel and the helium.
Can only run on half throttle, so poor old Higgs particles - wait your turn

[Kal (Andrew)]

Where did you read this? The CERN news page mentions nothing of this, all seems normal as a matter of fact.

http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/News.htm

[JimmyH155]

BBC News - Science and Technology. Story was yesterday 10th March



The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) must close at the end of 2011 for up to a year to address design issues, according to an LHC director. Dr Steve Myers told BBC News the faults will delay the machine reaching its full potential for two years.
The atom smasher will reach world record collision energies later this month at 7 trillion electron volts.
But joints between the machine's magnets must be strengthened before higher-energy collisions can commence.
The Geneva-based machine only recently restarted after being out of action for 14 months following an accident in September 2008

Trying to keep it secret are they????

[MikeyB (Michael)]

It's strange that the CERN website and Twitter feed don't mention this development:
Hadron Collider to be closed amid fears of a very big bang

Presumably that announcement is more credible than this one:
Hadron Collider faces closure after child traps Higgs Boson in jam jar

[duncan]

I think the Aliens had better get here real quick to help us on our merry way before we destroy ourselves trying to work it all out.

[leinad (Dan)]

Well it least it wasn't due to a bread crumb problem ...

[Waxing_Gibbous (Peter)]

Its the classic "milions of critical parts all assembled by the lowest bidder" case.
Its designed by several commitees, in which the French play a prominent role, and I've known up to 17 different manufacturers produce the same component all to slightly different specs and/or tolerances.
And the whole thing is under the aegis of the EU.
Its a wonder it did't vanish up its own bottom and start spewing out memos the second they turned it on.

[sjastro]

The reason why the story hasn't appeared on the CERN website is that the shutdown is a scheduled one.

As Brian May the well known science presenter and particle physicist at CERN commented, the news beat up "is a pile of merde".

http://timesonline.typepad.com/scien...y-at-cern.html

Steven

[Waxing_Gibbous (Peter)]

Originally Posted by sjastro

The reason why the story hasn't appeared on the CERN website is that the shutdown is a scheduled one.

As Brian May the well known science presenter and particle physicist at CERN commented, the news beat up "is a pile of merde".

http://timesonline.typepad.com/scien...y-at-cern.html

Steven

Thats boring!
No where near as fun as a real stuff-up!

Lets see what's on "Entertainment Tonite".....

[sjastro]

Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous

Thats boring!
No where near as fun as a real stuff-up!

Lets see what's on "Entertainment Tonite".....

Talk about stuff up.
I said Brian May instead of Brian Cox.
Brian May the guitarist of Queen became an astrophysicist.
Brian Cox a keyboard player from D-Ream became a particle physicist.

I can't keep up with Rock/Pop musicians becoming scientists

Steven

[rider]

Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous

Its the classic "milions of critical parts all assembled by the lowest bidder" case.
Its designed by several commitees, in which the French play a prominent role, and I've known up to 17 different manufacturers produce the same component all to slightly different specs and/or tolerances.
And the whole thing is under the aegis of the EU.
Its a wonder it did't vanish up its own bottom and start spewing out memos the second they turned it on.

They should have used Cyberdyne Systems to build it. It would have been self-aware by now.
(and being french, it would have only found particles showing Savoir Faire. )