Large Hadron Collider

Paris

The end will come if McCain/Palin win.

JuanV.Soler

they would not. I hope.
Is there any news about how is doing the experiment ?

remus

Is that the election or the LHC juan?

JuanV.Soler

I did not know McCain/Palin were involved in the LHC
they may have a chance then , dammit

remus

Theye not, it was meant to be a joke kind of lost effect now

JuanV.Soler

oh Remus, i was teasing you. nevermind.
Now, again, is there any news about the experiment ?

remus

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/

JuanV.Soler

thanks Remus.
It seems it is calm. No news yet.

john.warburton

@marian said:

What a bunch of crap, everyone knows that the end of the world will come in 2012 when the Earth will run out of Mayan dates, i'm soooo scared....
Boy..people are dumb..

Actually, I hear that the real experiments won't start until October.

And, some scientists are saying that it will be four years (2012) before the catastrophic effects are felt.

....I too am really, really scared.

MALAISE

Don't be too afraid

Like very highly complex devices, the LHC is yet out of order for technical reasons
just after it has been switched on

MALAISE

JuanV.Soler

is it confirmed ?

Alan Fraser

BBC News - Hadron Collider halted for months

The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be out of action for at least two months because of a technical fault.

(news.bbc.co.uk)

JuanV.Soler

thanks Alan
it is hard for me to get the latest news.
It is not for joking but if the magnets have heated so much unexpectlly, I cant see any other way but to remove them for full garanty and that , I´m afraid is going to be impossible to do unless they reconstruct the wheel again.
Hard Luck.

Marian

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.

linea

@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
http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_arpanet.htm

Alan Fraser

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.
The Internet and the Web are not interchangeable terms.