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| Large Hadron Collidor to be taken off line again |
| 2010-03-11 |
| 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. design was for 14 Tev 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. plus setbacks caused by LHC created temporal anomalies, krenim time machine, going the wrong way around the sun etc. |
| Posted by:lord garth |
| #16 #10 I must be sick. I read it has Large Hadron Colander. and I jumbled Hadron. Imagine my embarrassment |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-03-11 19:37 |
| #15 Are you in Geneva now, ThingFromSnowyMountain? Prob'ly his French cousin, James, thoughtfully munching on a baguette. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-03-11 17:16 |
| #14 The story is old. The question was whether to fix things now and try to start out at full energy, or take data at a lower energy (and lower luminosity) first. As the story says, they decided to try to run for a couple of years first. At the moment the beams division is busy trying to tweak the beam this way and that (microns matter and the ring is big enough that tides are significant), and the experimenters are busy shaking down their detectors and trying to make sure they understand how things work with real beam in the machine. My small contribution yesterday was to answer the unexpected question "Is the floor slowly sagging under the experiment's weight?" Are you in Geneva now, ThingFromSnowyMountain? |
| Posted by: James 2010-03-11 16:21 |
| #13 This is what happens every time you involve the French. |
| Posted by: Mizzou Mafia 2010-03-11 14:21 |
| #12 Huh... this reminds me of an article I read around the time when the LHC was supposed to go online last Fall and there were several delays and setbacks. Yes, it's from the NY Slimes but an interesting read, nonetheless: The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate |
| Posted by: eltoroverde 2010-03-11 13:35 |
| #11 The last post wuz me. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2010-03-11 11:39 |
| #10 I must be sick. I read it has Large Hadron Colander. |
| Posted by: Creating Mussolini9716 2010-03-11 11:38 |
| #9 Well, it was obvious they had design flaws when it didn't create the Apocalyptic Black Hole of Doom™. Should've just contracted it out to Halliburton in the first place. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2010-03-11 11:04 |
| #8 Time for a large spelling mistake collidor |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-03-11 10:41 |
| #7 AC/DC have more voltage and Ben Johnson still does a lap faster than this thing ! :) |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-03-11 10:29 |
| #6 The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) must close at the end of 2011 for up to a year to address design issues They forgot to include a pastry timer? |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-03-11 09:47 |
| #5 A reprieve from the Governor. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-03-11 09:12 |
| #4 Don't forget the anitmatter stolen by the Illiminati to blow up the Vatican. Silly premise, but the movie was worth the $5 rental. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2010-03-11 05:51 |
| #3 Depends on how much Evil Robot Bill and Ted get done between now and then. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-03-11 02:38 |
| #2 When engineering assumptions run up against reality things like this occurs. Happens with new tech like this (and some old tech pushed to it's limits). At least they are getting a chance to fix things before they break. |
| Posted by: tipover 2010-03-11 02:02 |
| #1 Give'm some old envelopes. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-11 01:58 |