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« Reply #135 on: September 10, 2008, 09:11:34 AM » |
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Ok, it cost 5 billion pounds sterling took 12 years to build, is 2 years late , and way over budget, sound familiar ?
Wembley Stadium , the Woolwich Dome, why don't they build cancer research hospitals instead
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« Reply #136 on: September 10, 2008, 09:14:35 AM » |
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surely they have atleast tried it before and this isnt going to be the first time they have turned it on so to speak?
No, they haven't run it already. The reason is that it takes months to get it ready to run. The cooling of the superconductors and the preliminary testing takes so long that they decided not to do a dry run. They've got the beam 6.7Km round the ring so far. Chance of a collision today - which will be good. |
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« Reply #137 on: September 10, 2008, 09:34:32 AM » |
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Why don't they build cancer research hospitals instead
This is far more important. +1 Even if you cure cancer, people are going to still die of something. |
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« Reply #138 on: September 10, 2008, 09:58:52 AM » |
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9:24am BST - the beam has completed a full circuit.  |
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« Reply #139 on: September 10, 2008, 10:08:07 AM » |
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Well the Beeb is saying the first circuit has been a success and no black hole disasters have occured.Damn,i wish i hadn't sent those texts now.
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« Reply #140 on: September 10, 2008, 10:11:09 AM » |
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They aren't colliding any particles for quite a while yet - so the end of the world will come then. At the moment they're just firing them round the circuit for fun. Quote from the BBC site: This is much better than expected. I've just heard that the beam circulated the LHC 3 times on the first attempt at just before 10.28 CET (0928 BST). The senior guys here do look genuinely surprised at the performance of their 27km baby. To put it into context, I was told earlier that the last machine here, LEP, which was much simpler, took 12 hours to get to this point. LHC has delivered the goods in an hour! |
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« Reply #141 on: September 10, 2008, 10:12:20 AM » |
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hopefully they can use the results of this experiment to solve the timeless chicken/egg conundrum
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« Reply #142 on: September 10, 2008, 10:32:51 AM » |
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hopefully they can use the results of this experiment to solve the timeless chicken/egg conundrum
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« Reply #143 on: September 10, 2008, 10:34:17 AM » |
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hopefully they can use the results of this experiment to solve the timeless chicken/egg conundrum
I don't think the tube is wide enough for them to fit a chicken in. It'd be interesting to see what happened if they fired a chicken round it one way, and an egg the other. Wonder what the result would be. Probably an omelette. |
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« Reply #144 on: September 10, 2008, 10:51:06 AM » |
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« Reply #145 on: September 10, 2008, 11:03:03 AM » |
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The actually main collision is October sometime. This is just a test run to see if they have the conditions right for a collision to take place.
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« Reply #146 on: September 10, 2008, 11:21:12 AM » |
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The actually main collision is October sometime. This is just a test run to see if they have the conditions right for a collision to take place.
Scheduled for the 21st October - or something like that. But they're running well ahead of schedule just on getting it running today, so I wonder if they'd bring it forward at all - but I guess that the processes too rigid and changing them now would involve disrupting too many plans for too many people who are involved. |
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« Reply #147 on: September 10, 2008, 11:35:54 AM » |
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Has it all gone horribly wrong? http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/Well, I laughed anyway  . |
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« Reply #149 on: September 10, 2008, 12:13:15 PM » |
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The actually main collision is October sometime. This is just a test run to see if they have the conditions right for a collision to take place.
Scheduled for the 21st October - or something like that. But they're running well ahead of schedule just on getting it running today, so I wonder if they'd bring it forward at all - but I guess that the processes too rigid and changing them now would involve disrupting too many plans for too many people who are involved. Vision of one of the scientists getting over excited & sneaking in over night, to switch it on ahead of schedule..... & booooooooooooom........disaster, he broke it  |
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