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2009-11-07 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Baguette-toting bird stalls atom smasher

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Posted by gorb 2009-11-07 03:37|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Had the machine been activated, the baguette incident ~~could~~ would have caused the LHC to go into ~~shutdown~~ universe killing mode,

Posted by .5mt 2009-11-07 07:23|| 2009-11-07 07:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone wrote a serious scientific article a couple months ago arguing that God, the Universe, the Future, Fate, and/or Destiny would prevent the thing from ever lighting off.

I'm starting to believe it.

Posted by Mike 2009-11-07 08:48|| 2009-11-07 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Portents and signs.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-07 09:09|| 2009-11-07 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Hold my beer.

Posted by HomoSapiens 2009-11-07 11:09|| 2009-11-07 11:09|| Front Page Top

#5 At this rate the damned thing won't be operational till December 2012.

Posted by DMFD 2009-11-07 11:12|| 2009-11-07 11:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Jeebus, think of the calamity that would have resulted if that bird had pooped on the collider.

Posted by ed 2009-11-07 11:44|| 2009-11-07 11:44|| Front Page Top

#7 So, this thing is so sensitive that this is enough to cause a glitch? A piece of bread... on an OUTDOOR part? How reassuring, I just hope it won't snow or something.

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-11-07 15:04|| 2009-11-07 15:04|| Front Page Top

#8 I didn't hear exactly where the bird decided the system looked hungry, but I could give a "for-instance" possibility. To keep things cool requires a lot of external machines, and if a fan shorted in one then the cooling system for that part of a sector might eventually fail. Rather than wait for an overheating, they prefer to shut down quickly when they detect something wrong.

"Technical problems" is a cute euphemism for "explosion."

At the moment the machine is tuning up (no collisions yet) and we're testing readouts and checking timing. Even without collisions, beam halo and beam splash give you something to test your detectors with.
CMS "e-commentary"

Posted by James">James 2009-11-07 22:14|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2009-11-07 22:14|| Front Page Top

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