In a stunning piece of astronomical news, the planet Sol III — better known as “Earth” — has been completely obliterated. In connection with this sudden catastrophe, authorities have questioned a resident of neighboring planet Sol IV (Mars), who is known to have made threats against Earth in the past. This questioning is thought by [...]
In a surprise twist to the search to discover the origins of he universe Pope Benedict and the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams are to be fired at one another at the speed of light in the Large Hadron Collider at Cern. James Gillies, Cern’s Director of Communications, told reporters ...
Repairs being made in March 2009 to the damaged section of the LHC. (Credit: Courtesy of CERN) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Nov. 20, 2009) — Particle beams are once again zooming around the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider -- located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. On November 20 at 4:00 p.m. EST, a clockwise circulating beam was established...
In a surprise twist to the search to discover the origins of he universe Pope Benedict and the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams are to be fired at one another at the speed of light in the Large Hadron Collider at Cern. James Gillies, Cern’s Director of Communications, told ...
The restart of the Large Hadron Collider is hailed as a significant leap forward in efforts to launch new experiments on the makeup of matter and the universe. Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10-billion machine following more than a year of repairs.
After a delay of over a year at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the massive underground particle accelerator, beginning on November 20, 2009, is already sending particles beams on paths...
GENEVA — Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs. The nuclear physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider were surprised that they could so quickly get beams of protons whizzing near the speed of light during the restart late Friday,...
I used to think that nothing would happen with the Large Hadron Collider . I even made fun of the nutters saying it's going to destroy the world . After reading CERN Director for Accelerators's latest statement, I'm not so sure: The LHC is a far better understood machine than it was a year ago. We've learned from our experience, and engineered the technology… Continue reading
The NYT reports that the end of the world might be getting back on schedule, since the Large Hadron Collider is back in operation: Physicists returned to their future on Friday. About 10 p.m. outside Geneva, scientists at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, succeeded in sending beams of protons clockwise around the 17-mile underground [...]
The Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland has been turned on again after the 14 month break for repairs, so this may be my last post before we are all sucked into the Space/Time vortex. Imagine when they had to call out the repair man? (sucks intake of air through teeth) "You are looking at at least £3 million for parts and labour squire and I can't even look at it for 6 months. You...
From ScienceDaily: Particle beams are once again zooming around the world’s most powerful particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider — located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. On November 20 at 4:00 p.m. EST, a clockwise circulating beam was established in the LHC’s 17-mile ring. From the BBC: pictures of the happy moment. CERN’s Twitter feed [...]...
Yesterday, the Large Hadron Collider once again had a beam of protons whizzing around its 27 km-long circumference! After a series of setbacks — some devastating, holding up the world’s largest scientific experiment for many months — this milestone achieved shows that the collider is heading back to full operations, which should get started again next [...]
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer Alexander G. Higgins, GENEVA – Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs. The nuclear physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider were surprised that they could so quickly get beams of protons...
Large Hadron Collider - The Time Is Now! CERN's $9 billion, 17-mile long atom smasher was just turned on and we're awaiting reports on how the tests have gone. The Large Hadron Collider did experience "small electrical problems" overnight. However, these were not expected to delay the first test firing at 9:30am CEST . As such, the clockwise and counter-clockwise firing of particles should already...