LHC - DD -AM Wed 10.09.08

[Sweetpea]

Cern collider ready for power-up


Three decades after it was conceived, the world's most powerful physics experiment is ready to be powered up.
On Wednesday, engineers will attempt to circulate a beam of particles around the 27km-long underground tunnel which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The £5bn machine is designed to smash particles together with cataclysmic force, revealing signs of new physics in the wreckage.
This will re-create conditions in the Universe moments after the Big Bang. But it has not been plain sailing; the project has been hit by cost overruns, equipment trouble and construction problems. The switch-on itself is two years late.

If you don't know already: BBC iPlayer - The Big Bang Machine


BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cern collider ready for power-up


See you in the next wooorrrlllldddddddddddd!

[poppy]

well that will fix my head ache.

[Sweetpea]

I think it only takes particles and not whole husbands Pop!

[poppy]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I think it only takes particles and not whole husbands Pop!

SHUKS back to the drawing board

[Churchill]

If it doesn't go well, will we be here to complain afterwards?

[Sweetpea]

We are actually OK till October, when they fire BOTH beams.

[Churchill]

So the maxim 'live today as if it were your last' may actually hold true?

[Sweetpea]

Do your worst, until October.

[Mad Cow]

Whats the worst you could do that hasn't been done already by someone else!!!

Well that'll annoy the aliens due to arrive lol

[Sweetpea]

Pleased tpo say we are all probably here, and all went well.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Big Bang' experiment starts well