CERN's Large Hadron Collider news...

[Ian]

and Simon Singh is doing a series on Radio 4 about fundamental particles. I'll post a link when I find it on the website. He did neutrinos today. A lot of talk for something that does 9 tenths of b*gger all...

[Mac]

There are some cool live webcams inside CERN that let you see live images. They are not very exciting but check it out...

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

very very good

[MarkS]

Made me laugh out loud!!

[Delphine]

What a scream

[Mike]

Here is a video explaining how the LHC works....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQNpucos9wc&fmt=18

[mickw]

Engineers operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have smashed together proton beams in the machine for the very first time.

The step was described as a "great achievement" for those working on the huge physics experiment.

The low-energy collisions came after researchers circulated two beams simultaneously in the LHC's 27km-long tunnel earlier on Monday.

More:   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8375486.stm

[Mike]

A director at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva has told BBC News that some mistakes were made in construction.

Dr Steve Myers said these faults will delay the machine reaching its full potential for two years.

The atom smasher will reach world record power later this month at 7 trillion electron volts (TeV).

But the machine must close at the end of 2011 for up to a year for work to make the tunnel safe for proton collisions planned at twice that level.

The machine only recently restarted after being out of action for 14 months following an accident in September 2008.

Dr Myers said: "It's something that, with a lot more resources and with a lot more manpower and quality control, possibly could have been avoided but I have difficulty in thinking that this is something that was a design error."

He said: "The standard phrase is that the LHC is its own prototype. We are pushing technologies towards their limits."

"You don't hear about the thousands or hundreds of thousands of other areas that have gone incredibly well.

"With a machine like the LHC, you only build one and you only build it once."

MORE........    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8556621.stm

[mickw]

"With a machine like the LHC, you only build one and you only build it once."

Because it doesn't work 

Sorry, couldn't resist it 

[doug]

     Who needs black holes, anyway ??????????????? 

[Mike]

If you'd like to see live what the LHC is doing this website is pretty cool -

http://meltronx.com/lhclite/

[Tony G]

 


There's that whoooooosssssshhhhhhing sound that is usually associated with Fay.

Tony G

[mickw]

I think I understand it..............

The screen going blank means they created a black hole and Switzerland is gone.

All the time there is a picture, it's not working   

[MarkS]

Not a lot seems to happen.

Unlike this one:
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

[Mike]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/01/lhc_fifth_dimension_incursion/

[Fay]

Tony? whoooooooshing?