End Of The World? (About The Large Hadron Collider)
Russ
Posted/Published: September 9 2008
This is another article I found about the Large Hadron Collider which is scheduled to be activated tonight...
www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/science/09collide.html?_r=1&oref=slogiN
In a few hours, life as we know it might cease to exist!
At least in this article it says:
For now, the beams will only be circulating, not colliding, in what is more of what Tommaso Dorigo of the University of Padua called a “mediatic” event on his blog, dorigo.wordpress.com. The intensity of the beams, he wrote, “will be more or less like that of vehicles on a dust trail in Arizona, and our detectors will be like poor souls dozing on the side, thumb up for a hitchhike in case a car stops.”
Reading that statement makes me feel a little better. At least the big reaction isn't happening tonight. Then again, that means that there will be a later date where we might be facing the end of the world all over again!
6 Comments
September 10 2008
Phase 1 is now past us. The machine has been turned on and we are still alive! The next big moment is when they begin colliding particles (which could create black holes). I was pleasantly surprised to find that Google's homepage has a direct link to the LHC details! google.com
October 22 2008
Well...
The collider has been put on hold until next year:
Article: www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/science/24collider.html"last Friday the machine was shut down after an electrical connection between two of the superconducting electromagnets that steer the protons suffered a so-called quench, heating up, melting and leaking helium into the collider tunnel."
October 15 2009
Haha! Some scientists say that the collider failed because of God or time travelers! www.tgdaily.com/content/view/44291/181/
November 30 2009
Here's some new info about the collider: arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/11/lhc-sets-new-energy-record-full-power-still-year-away.ars
In the latest news, the large Hadron collider (LHC) reported that it had reached 1.18TeV with its beams, the highest energy ever recorded for an Earth-bound particle accelerator.
The good news... We're still here! Of course the actual full power run won't happen for another year...
March 20 2010
Scientists at CERN, the European nuclear research agency, announced Friday morning that they had accelerated beams of protons at the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, to energies of 3.5 trillion electron volts. That is a new record, three times the energy of any other machine on earth, and means that the collider, after 15 years and $10 billion, is on the verge of beginning to do physics experiments. Physicists hope to begin colliding the beams by the end of the month.
www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/world/europe/20briefs-Colliderbrf.htmL