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LHC cooled to operational temperatures

All sectors of the world's largest particle accelerator have now been cooled to operational temperatures of approximately -271°C. All sectors of the world's largest particle accelerator have now been cooled to operational temperatures of approximately -271°C. The eight sectors have been cooled individually over time....

Tags: Magnet, Sector, Temperature, Beam, LHC, Large Hadron Collider, Cern, Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

News items 2009-10-20

Large Hadron Collider looks for November restart

November can't come soon enough. :) [nt][nt]RE: Large Hadron Collider looks for November restartI think it is an obscene waste of money. It will not feed the starving or house the homeless or provide much needed medical facilities in developing countries. It will not develop more sustainable, cleaner forms of...

Tags: Free trade, Large Hadron Collider

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Large Hadron Collider delayed again by vacuum leaks

Large Hadron Collider delayed again by vacuum leaks Gawd stepped in and saved the planet again, for a short time.;-)I guess the 2012 end date for the earth will be when this thing starts..working. LOLI plan to keep maxing out my credit cards and living the high life. ...

Tags: Large Hadron Collider

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Large Hadron Collider restart pushed back again

Large Hadron Collider restart pushed back againSo the world has a few extra weeks to live. :) ntntThis cracked me UP."The experiment, which is designed to improve scientific understanding of the nature of matter, had to be halted nine days after it was fully powered up, after an electrical malfunction...

Tags: black hole

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Repairs on track for Large Hadron Collider

Repairs on track for Large Hadron ColliderSo they should be all set to ruin it again...When?Malfunction my ass. They knew they couldn't achieve what they wanted to with the piddly ass system they built, so they pushed it past its operating limits, hoping that they could get away with it...

Tags: Large Hadron Collider

Discussion threads 2009-05-02

Large Hadron Collider delayed again

Large Hadron Collider delayed againre: Large Hadron Collider delayed againDarn it... Now the end of the world will have to wait a bit longer.RE: Large Hadron Collider delayed againWell I guess the Higgs boson existence proof will have to wait.Higgs BosonWhen I was a kid, I caught a Higgs boson...

Tags: Higgs Boson, Large Hadron Collider, jar

Discussion threads 2009-02-10

(A look at the damage that halted the Large Hadron Collider)

A look at the damage that halted the Large Hadron ColliderCould ZDNet do a special featureThere's been very little information about how the scientists at the LHC get the tons of data from the detectors, in the mind bogglingly short time scales involved. Could you do a feature on the...

Tags: Large Hadron Collider, magnet

Discussion threads 2008-12-12

A look at the damage that halted the Large Hadron Collider

The European Center for Nuclear Research Cern released photos of damage to the Large Hadron Collider, the particle accelerator was damaged by a liquid helium leak in September. by Andy Smith

Tags: Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, Andy Smith

Image galleries 2008-12-11

Expensive repairs for Large Hadron Collider

Expensive repairs for Large Hadron ColliderWellno one ever said destroying the universe would be cheap!RE: Expensive repairs for Large Hadron ColliderIf even that can be achieved. The problem is much worse than even this new number. When the transformer failed, the ring heated up very fast, tweaking delicate...

Tags: Expensive Repair, Large Hadron Collider

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply

Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supplyWho cares?particle colliders and whatnot- how about: let's try living our own lives and find out something useful once they've RUN an experiment! It's difficult enough dealing with the paramount necessities and the trivialities of our own lives- why bother to focus on others'?There's...

Tags: Large Hadron Collider, power supply, Hadron Collider

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Anti-LHC lawsuit lands in legal black hole

Anti-LHC lawsuit lands in legal black holeDuh!Somehow I don't think the Swiss government would take kindly to a US Marshal being dispatched to CERN with an order to shut down the reactor.US courts clearly don't have jurisdiction in this case.

Tags: Anti-LHC, black hole

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

LHC ready for trial collisions

Let's smash some atoms! The Large Hadron Collider is back on track for trial collisions this week, after a glitch with the cooling system, Times Online reports. Once the two beams had been inserted into the LHC ring last Wednesday, the next task was to “capture�...

Tags: Collision, Beam, Large Hadron Collider, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?That's a pretty funny site. Some amusement in the page source too.YawnThis is getting old. Nobody said the LHC would destroy the world when it started up. They said it would destroy the...

Tags: Micro Black hole, Large Hadron Collider, black hole

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

Large Hadron Collider powers up

Large Hadron Collider powers upwell if it goes wrong we will have a nice tripthey are afraid that a collision at the power could create micro black hole nice a modern science i love itRE: Large Hadron Collider powers upToo bad you are wrong....

Tags: Fact Checking, collision, Large Hadron Collider

Discussion threads 2008-09-10

Gallery: Scientists react to Hadron success

September 10, 2008, the first particle beam was successfully sent around the full circuit of the Large Hadron Collider LHC at the European Organization for Nuclear Research Cern. Here's how UK scientists reacted to the achievement. by Andy Smith

Tags: Scientist, Andy Smith, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator

Image galleries 2008-09-10

Bid to stop Large Hadron Collider fails but EU, US suits move forward

Bid to stop Large Hadron Collider fails but EU, US suits move forwardHere's what's going to happen:Here's what's going to happen:Someone will turn on a switch and we'll learn something new. What's going to happen in the LHC happens [i]trillions[/i] upon [i]trillions[/i] of times every day. If the...

Tags: Large Hadron Collider, move forward

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing

Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testingBest overview of LHC ever.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtMRE: Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testingAhhh, this is just awesome news. I'm so glad the Europeans are picking up the ball on High Energy Particle Physics, as Bush seems hell-bent on catastrophizing particle physics research here in the US, just...

Tags: Large Hadron Collider, stem-cell, theory, LHC

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Large Hadron Collider will put academic networks to the test

Large Hadron Collider will put academic networks to the testLHC Safety Assessment Group ReportHas any information been release about the status of the promised LHC Safety Assessment Group study?I would like to know that before micro black holes may be created at a rate of up to 1 per second,...

Tags: network, Large Hadron Collider, safety study

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

Additional Resources

LHC cooled to operational temperatures

these experiments should be abolishedthese arrogant Eurocrats are putting the world at risk and are performing acts against nature and God.Where are the greenies when you need them???The amount of power this thing is using, where are the "global warming" theorists? Why aren't the greenies upset?Hoping someone shuts this...

Tags: LHC, collider

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

News to know: FTC, Psystar, Vonage, Apple-Palm, Oracle

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: FTC targets bloggers for disclosure about perks, freebies Richard Koman: FTC publishes final rules on blogger...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Vonage Holdings Corp., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Psystar, FTC, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Desktops, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-06