Have lost count of how many topics we've had on this

Here's some news - They created a new record for the creation of particle beams! There's been progress!

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/lhc-triples-its-own-record/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29

It is, of course a Welsh bloke that is leading the Hadron Collider project someone called  Lyn Evans,

ummm..... is that good or bad?

Evans!   Aren't all Welshmen called either Evans or Jones..

Good find Deezee.. So they've got the beams up to 3.48 trillion electron volts.(almost 3.5TeV) which is halfway to their goal of  7TeV..(at which time they will collide the beams and the Earth will disappear into a black hole)

I have been following the progress of the LHC, but the science is starting to get a bit beyond me and giving me headaches when I try to comprehend it.. 

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2010/03/16/cms-event-display-decoded/

So we're half-way to doomsday then?

(I gave up on the science ages ago andro)

So we're half-way to doomsday then?

Looks like it deezee, but then again we counted down the LHC doomsday clock here on Tangler in 2008, remember?  But then the LHC blew a fuse and it's taken all this time to fix it..

hahahaha

That is still one of my favourite threads

Yeah, that was great fun..

2008 whoa... that was a long time ago! It goes so fast! 

No kidding!!

*feels old*

Ok, hold onto your hats folks, the Earth could disappear into a black hole on Tuesday..

The Large Hadron Collider is about to start the work that could lead to the discovery of fundamental new physics.

Two proton particle beams have been circling in opposite directions in the magnet-lined tunnels at 3.5 TeV since 19 March.

Having established their stability, these beams will now be allowed to cross paths and collide on Tuesday. This 7 TeV event will be the highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator.

Read about it here......

Just what?

We can now watch the world self destruct!

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

Hey, thats today..

yep!!

http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/

Wow, those guys haven't been swallowed up yet..They'll be the first to go..

Thats a great site, Deezee....

Wish I could stay up for it.

Goodnight!

G'night, Deezee...

Is this what the afterlife looks like, or did the world not end?

They were having trouble ironing out some of the bugs, but I kept an eye on it for a few hours and then went to bed..

But apparently they got it working ok...(One of the concequences may be seen below)..

Maybe they meant next tuesday? I haven't heard anything about it....

hahaha gotta remember to use that excuse some time

Lots mentioned about it Morgan. What do you mean?

Yeah Morgan, here's a picture from the LHC taken just last night....

I haven't heard anything about it, apart from in here.

D'oh

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8593780.stm

According to those jokers at the BBC, on Tuesday they turned the dial up to 11 3.5 TeV to make collisions more powerful than have been done before. (3.5 TeV in each direction, so a 7 TeV collision)

They're going to do that for a while to see what they get, then close for maintenance again, and when they re-open go for the big money and run the thing at full power - 7 TeV each way, for a 14 TeV collision (and for those not up to date on their particle physics, the article even explains what a TeV is)

I still don't understand how they can accelerate the particles with loads of particles already in there - makes it impossible to replicate, doesn't it?

They use NOS

Well it finally happened and we didn't get sucked into a black hole..(yet)..

typical.... they promise the end of the world, and fail to deliver it....

Yeah, most disappointing..

I was relying on the black hole theory to save me some time and money, but yesterday I had to go and buy 8 Easter eggs...... and a 3rd birthday pressie for one of my grandchildren...

Bloody scientists can't be trusted...

HHAHAHAHAHA

Eggactly

I have to concur with Andro here.  Although no grandchildren (I'm far, far, far too young for them) and despite the fact that a few billion or so protons have been tera-Volted into whatever oblivion protons go into after the tera-Volting,  life does not appear to cost less especially at Easter (or any other normal weekend of the year)...

Whoa, it's Mr Dent!!

I thought you'd gotten sucked into the non-existent black hole...

Meanwhile, I'm loving Easter here. It's such a non-occasion, it's glorious!

I like non-occasions.  They tend to mean that I can spend my hard-earned on what I think are essentials rather than what other people think...

Good to see you are enjoying yourself Dek.  How's the job-hunt going?

IPL is on here, free to air as well.  Cracking stuff!

I've missed EVERY match

Timings are too off, and YouTube doesn't show it live in the US. Bloody hell

So... What exactly did happen? With the LHC, I mean...

They fired it and the world didn't end

This is a C&P from the CERN Bulletin.....

Yes, we did it!

Nearly 20 years of hard work by hundreds of people have made this machine a dream come true. Today, the LHC has delivered its first high-energy collisions to the experiments. The new data will give us an unprecedented tool to understand the Universe we live in.

We did it! The first high-energy collisions were achieved at 13.06 today at all four points of the LHC ring. Collisions occurred after a few attempts at injecting and ramping beams in the morning.

Before the collisions, there was a mixture of excitement, expectation, fear and apprehension in the CERN Control Centre. Nobody had ever attempted to make two proton beams collide at 3.5 TeV before. Only Nature produces collisions like this routinely, in the processes that yield cosmic radiation, but in a way that makes it very difficult to extract meaningful data.

In other words, they are pleased with the performance of the LHC, but it will take a while to evaluate the information....The LHC will now be closed down and thouroughly checked out then some time in the future (possibly in a years time) they will attempt a 7TeV collision..

I'll say one thing -

Science takes f-ing forever!

http://twitter.com/ProfBrianCox/status/11301451382

HAHAHAHAHA

Yeah - I want the 7TeV NOW!!

This picture:

from this story

reminds me of:

This picture by dek:

from the original LHC topic

And it makes me wonder if dek had anything to do with this too

LOL

I'm influential....