Large Hadron Collider
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If failures like this happpen so frequently on complex machines i wonder how many problems will rise when we'll make the first real starship...guess 10 years will stay on Earth and another ten in orbit.
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@unknownuser said:
the CERN institute where the LHC is being built invented the World Wide Web, as a fastest method for sharing information with its scientists from around the world, working on LHC components. You are talking here thanks to the LHC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dare anyone to say that the web is useless.
For another example breast cancer sensors came directly from particle collision research in the CERN
How anyone can anyone think that nothing good will come of quantum physics research?!Sorry to split hairs but Cern did not "invent" the world wide web. Many years ago I researched this subject for part of my university dissertation (addmittedly not the best essay) but I'm sure that Arpanet developed by the U.S. Department of Defense was the original form of the world wide web, or at least the first large scale internet medium that actually worked. Cern might have developed it but they didn't invent it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~acc/docs/arpa.html
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa091598.htm
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Jon, ARPANET invented the Internet for the US Defense Department. That is the packet switching via addresses contained in those packets of data to link computers together.
This is different from the WWW, which is a hypertext protocol, accessed via a web browser, that sits on top of the Internet. That was invented at CERN to allow widely separated scientists to communicate effectively.
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Ok Alan, I stand corrected.
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The Large Hadron Collider has been fixed and is about to be restarted:
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What about the bread?
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Hi folks.
These peoples may have read the book mentionned here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(novel
I read it and found it very good but, this is science fiction.
I know that sometimes fiction becomes reality and even surpasses it but this time I doubt it.
Just ideas.
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@unknownuser said:
Oooooh oooohh ooohh!! Look what I found, webcam footage!
Tasty thread!!!
Don t worry guys!Nothing bad can happen ! Remember first time wheel was probably square ,then rounded but still uncomfortable, then we discovered the tire and we re still polishing it.
Every invention takes time until the effects can reach maximum potential.Who knows what can be discovered from here,maybe something totally different from what they expected .
Till then leave in peace because at least this is up to you
!!Elisei
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Help, i have a black hole in Sketchup
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No need to worry, thats just a white hole
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This is not a white hole! That was the light of my monitor that just disappears.
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Hole white ? All right
MALAISE
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Men are tough, we are. I am.
Maybe it must be the way we undoubtlly learn.
We are now , again, under the incógnita.But the people HAVE the power, and for me it is delightfull to sense it and somehow, sometimes, remember the 2012 that is arriving under unknown and unpredictable way, as far as I can expect and desire.
so dont despair and be welcomed ¡
ones looses and others gainlets be confident
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It's broken again....!
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"Murphy rule" again
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Well of course it's gonna break. .. they keep colliding Stuff. . .
Colliding. .. collision . . .. HELLOOOO!
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It's not exactly broken, the article says that it will be shut down at the end of 2011 for 2 years to adress some design faults and till then it will run at half capacity.
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Dear Chaps,
It is not really a design fault; more a design improvement, with 'instrument' and personnel safety in mind. Why take the risk of a major incident if it can be designed out. Remember, nothing like this has been done before. It is an experiment, and the first (and probably) the last of its kind. The first video shows the controlled quench of a small superconducting magnet,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY3bgZY_nF4&feature=related
the second an uncontrolled rise in pressure (magnets are often shipped cold),
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R7KsfosV-o&feature=related
Collimators around the LHC intercept stray particles and stop beam energy from being dumped into the superconducting coils which would cause them to heat and possibly quench uncontrollably. That is why the LHC is being restricted to low particle velocities until the improvements are implemented. Here a collimator is shown being installed,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUwU9J0rp_0
The planned modifications are to ensure that if the magnets do quench, which is likely to happen if control of the beam is lost, they quench safely.
Regards,
Bob -
Did Toyota do some of the components ?
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