Laughing out loud at all you ^^^^^^^^^^^ crazy and wonderful peeps.

I hope I anger no one by waxing poetic about the LHC; it is an awesome machine. When it is running in production, the protons going through it will be travelling within 30cm a second of the speed of light. That speed (beyond which it is impossible to accelerate) is 299,792 km a second. The accelerated protons will transit the 27 km ring 11,000 times each second! The power of this accelerator is about 100 million times that of the first cyclotrons tested by Ernest Lawrence at UC Berkeley (let's hear it for Oski the Bear!). Those were only a foot or so in circumference, but the basic idea behind the devices is unchanged.

It is one helluva microscope!

I found two websites that anyone interested in this project has to see:-

Handy website in case you need to know....
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdes...heworldyet.com/

LHC Webcams so you can see what's happening.....
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

It really is a wonderful experiment.

Oh and if you don't have £3+Billion and the space to build a LHC but you still want to look for dark matter and find the answers to life, the universe and everything why not find a potash mine in the north of England and pack it with super sensitive equipment?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/2981103.stm

:)

Here is another take on the LHC. :)

Sic transit Gloria Mundi. :(

no way^^^ a minor setback. with so many parts, it's inevitable there will be breakages and failures and such. just a bump

I sure hope so! This tool can complete - and take us BEYOND - the Standard Model.

Something this complex will have breakdowns, Mr Murphy demands it..

It's the good bits in the middle that'll be awesome.

It seems the LHC will be down for 2 months. It has taken a long time to get it, I guess another couple of months is not too bad.

Apparently there were some ill effects from messing with quantum physics; all the gasoline in Tennessee seems to have been sucked into some kind of black hole.

:roflmao:
weird

Excerpt from the press relaease on CERN's webiste ( http://public.web.cern.ch/public/ ): "...it is already clear that the sector will have to be warmed up for repairs to take place. This implies a minimum of two months down time for LHC operation."

suXXorz

According to the BBC, the LHC now will be shut off until spring 2009 while the engineers work on the magnet failure problem. At least it will give them a larger window to resolve the problem.