LHC to shut down for a year to address safety concerns

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

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.

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

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The project is not going well. :banghead:

[aquart]

1. Will this be mentioned on The Big Bang Theory?

[Edweird]

2. See, I KNEW they were gonna create a black hole and kill us all.....

OK, not really....

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Heh - "Large Hadron Collider unlikely to cause apocalypse, court rules":

A German court today threw out an application to halt experiments at the Large Hadron Collider for fear they will destroy the Earth.

The Federal Constitutional Court, the highest in the country, said that a woman - who was not identified - had failed to demonstrate any connection between experiments at the collider outside Geneva and a possible apocalypse.

It noted “overwhelming scientific opinion” that experiments at Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, posed no potential danger.

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/world/large-hadron-collider-unlikely-to-cause-apocalypse-court-rules-449306.html

[Renew Deal]

4. 2 years= 2012!

The end is near! :nuke:

[SpiralHawk]

6. Gotta make that puppy safe for proton collisions

and probably protein spills, too...

[liberal N proud]

8. That is what I was thinking

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[POAS]

20. Nope 2014 since they said

it will operate ate reduced power till the end of 2011.

[adnelson60087]

5. Not going well? Welcome to the world of science, where the mistakes

makes the glories all the more glorious. Need I remind you all about the "Blunder" and terrible waste of money and effort that was HUBBLE Space Telescope before it got repaired? Now, it's one of the best scientific tools in the world today. The LHC is simply the most complicated device built in the history of mankind...give them a chance. They'll work it out.

[imnKOgnito]

7. Yep

I remember well when the Hubble was considered a colossal mistake and waste of money.

[MicaelS]

10. We should have built the SSC

Had all those research dollars, scientists and prestige, here in the US, but the stupid-ass shortsighted politicians killed that. Fuckers.

[Tesha]

11. The people in Waxahachie are convinced that Gawd created the universe 6000 years ago.

They didn't want any of them nasty athiestic scientists down there
proving anything using that hole in the ground.

Maybe we have built it in Batavia or Brookhaven instead?

Tesha

[girl gone mad]

16. Yes, we should have.

Political idiocy at its finest.

On the upside, I got to study under some of the best physicists in the world at a very small university.

[roguevalley]

17. I read a story about probably this collider and I heard that it shut itself

down. they looked and studied and it appeared that it was coming from the future. Apparently the collider or controllers were shutting it down backward through time. I wish I had the link because it was from a serious science article in the news. Awesome. :) The awesome part for me was that there was still a future.

[hunter]

9. Humongous one-of-a-kind machines always have rough starts.

It's the nature of this universe.

If the machine had fired up perfectly without any glitches I might be thinking they were hiding something.

[Tesha]

12. As someone said, it is its own prototype. (NT)

[The abyss]

13. Oh Hell! Just fire the damn thing off!

Recommend.

Thanks for posting.

[Delphinus]

14. Well,

in the interim, I hope they use it fully.

[girl gone mad]

15. I don't think it's fair to say it's not going well.

This is an enormous, complicated machine. It would be shocking if there were no engineering flaws.

[0rganism]

18. ah, looks like the type 13 planet gets a reprieve

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDKo7pTwIwA

[no limit]

19. So it is a particle from the future sabotaging it. I knew it

just kidding. But this sucks, really really sucks.