Proton Beams Are on Track at Collider

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

The only question I have is will this particle accelerator thingy affect my TV reception.

Edinburgh? The only thing they do there is rob graves and publish anatomy texts.

Edited November 24, 2009 by IR5FORMUMSIE

[HAL 9000 96]

The only question I have is will this particle accelerator thingy affect my TV reception.

Edinburgh? The only thing they do there is rob graves and publish anatomy texts.

Hmmm... that's why my fried haggis tasted so interesting... hmmm...

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

The only question I have is will this particle accelerator thingy affect my TV reception.

Edinburgh? The only thing they do there is rob graves and publish anatomy texts.

Hmmm... that's why my fried haggis tasted so interesting... hmmm...

Tastes just like Soylent Green.

[HAL 9000 96]

The only question I have is will this particle accelerator thingy affect my TV reception.

Edinburgh? The only thing they do there is rob graves and publish anatomy texts.

Hmmm... that's why my fried haggis tasted so interesting... hmmm...

Tastes just like Soylent Green.

Exactly. But not that 'fresh.'

Still want that coat?

Because I could hurry it up and get you a hat or some gloves instead...

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

The only question I have is will this particle accelerator thingy affect my TV reception.

Edinburgh? The only thing they do there is rob graves and publish anatomy texts.

Hmmm... that's why my fried haggis tasted so interesting... hmmm...

Tastes just like Soylent Green.

Exactly. But not that 'fresh.'

Still want that coat?

Because I could hurry it up and get you a hat or some gloves instead...

Your such a FRAUD!

[HAL 9000 96]

*snif*

[Niels Bohr 72]

Good point. It may disrupt the time space continuum as colliding two proton will force them to bond with such momentum in a split second will cause them to become very dense which would cause it to collapse into itself thereby creating a mini black hole.

However, I doubt it since the energy used to collide them is no where as near that of the Sun. But, interested to see the result.

E=MC^2 ....Mass and Energy are interchangeable. So, Mass can be a function of energy as M=(E/(C^2) or vice versa.

We're all gonna die.

I agree we're all goinna die a quick non grizzly death! This is probably how the big bang went off to start with! Some eejits in lab coats throwing around protons to see what happens! What happens is they blow everything apart... 100 billion years later.. another bunch of them try to find out what happened the first time around.. or was it already done a 1000 times already?

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

The only question I have is will this particle accelerator thingy affect my TV reception.

Edinburgh? The only thing they do there is rob graves and publish anatomy texts.

Hmmm... that's why my fried haggis tasted so interesting... hmmm...

Tastes just like Soylent Green.

Exactly. But not that 'fresh.'

Still want that coat?

Because I could hurry it up and get you a hat or some gloves instead...

Well aged Soylent Green? Sounds delish.

I could use the coat but underwear could be good. "Hey ladies check out the rodent in my pants."

[scandal 951]

Large Hadron Collider Breaks Energy Record

The physics community is excited to see CERN's particle accelerator up and running again.

By Thomas Claburn

InformationWeek

November 30, 2009 04:07 PM

Early Monday morning, the problem-plagued Large Hadron Collider (LHC) set a world record in Switzerland when it accelerated twin proton beams to an energy of 1.18 TeV (teraelectronvolts), surpassing the record of 0.98 TeV set in 2001 by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Tevatron collider in the U.S.

The LHC, a particle accelerator used to study small particles for advanced physics research, is operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

The LHC began operation in September 10, 2008, only to be shut down nine days later following a breakdown caused by a faulty electrical connection between two of the accelerator's massive magnets.

The accelerator's planned restart in 2009 was delayed when two vacuum leaks were found in July.

In November, a piece of baguette dropped by a bird led to a temperature spike in the collider's machinery, but the incident did not delay the LHC's restart earlier this month.

CERN's accelerators and technology director Steve Myers praised the LHC's performance. "I was here 20 years ago when we switched on CERN's last major particle accelerator, LEP," he said in a statement. "I thought that was a great machine to operate, but this is something else. What took us days or weeks with LEP, we're doing in hours with the LHC. So far, it all augurs well for a great research program."

Next year, the LHC will fire even more energetic beams -- 3.5 TeV per beam, colliding with an engery of 7 TeV -- in order to generate proton collision data that's more useful. Today's test aims to make sure that higher intensity experiments can be handled safely.

The LHC is expected to generate about 15 petabytes of scientific data annually, enough to fill over 1.7 million dual-layer DVDs.

To distribute, store, and analyze this data, CERN oversees the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), a network that coordinates over 100,000 CPUs at over 170 sites in 34 countries, serving 8,000 physicists around the world.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Great news! Can't wait to see the mini black hole.

[Peikko 1,575]

They'd better watch out, they might become the target of more 'scientific conspiracy theories'. There's big dollars in them mountains

[HAL 9000 96]

The only question I have is will this particle accelerator thingy affect my TV reception.

Edinburgh? The only thing they do there is rob graves and publish anatomy texts.

Hmmm... that's why my fried haggis tasted so interesting... hmmm...

Tastes just like Soylent Green.

Exactly. But not that 'fresh.'

Still want that coat?

Because I could hurry it up and get you a hat or some gloves instead...

Well aged Soylent Green? Sounds delish.

I could use the coat but underwear could be good. "Hey ladies check out the rodent in my pants."

You do know the latin name for the mouse species right??

They'd better watch out, they might become the target of more 'scientific conspiracy theories'. There's big dollars in them mountains

*Raises hand to catch the flying Swiss francs*

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

The only question I have is will this particle accelerator thingy affect my TV reception.

Edinburgh? The only thing they do there is rob graves and publish anatomy texts.

Hmmm... that's why my fried haggis tasted so interesting... hmmm...

Tastes just like Soylent Green.

Exactly. But not that 'fresh.'

Still want that coat?

Because I could hurry it up and get you a hat or some gloves instead...

Well aged Soylent Green? Sounds delish.

I could use the coat but underwear could be good. "Hey ladies check out the rodent in my pants."

You do know the latin name for the mouse species right??

Mus musculus, no, that's not right. Mickeus mousieus that sounds right.

[HAL 9000 96]

Not trying to pull an Eric at this time of night... but we should aspire to be more of the there's a Rattus norvegicus in my trousers...

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

Not trying to pull an Eric at this time of night... but we should aspire to be more of the there's a Rattus norvegicus in my trousers...

And baby you're the warfarin...