The Bard » Large Hadron Collider http://maki.page8productions.com The listless crooning of a highway minstrel. Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:32:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Sad News http://maki.page8productions.com/archives/798 http://maki.page8productions.com/archives/798#comments Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:27:12 +0000 Maki http://maki.page8productions.com/?p=798 Yesterday, the LHC malfunctioned during a test, forcing the scientists and engineers at CERN to shut down the collider. At the press release they stated that it may be down for another two months while they work out the problem and ensure it is safe to be started back up. Drats!

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]]> http://maki.page8productions.com/archives/798/feed 0 Fire it up… for Science! http://maki.page8productions.com/archives/769 http://maki.page8productions.com/archives/769#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:57:06 +0000 Maki http://maki.page8productions.com/?p=769 As of yesterday, in the early morn, the Large Hadron Collider successfully fired its ‘First Beam’. Whats that mean? It means that the world enlightening/destroying supercollider shot a single particle around its 27km course. People all over the world could witness the test via satellite or web-cast. Alas, yours truly had to work that morning. DAMMIT!!!

‘Doesn’t that mean it works?’

Not quite, Timmy. They still have to test all the other beams and then get them to collide. I don’t know about you, but I miss the garbage can now and then and these guys are trying to make atoms collide. So they still have some work cut out for them. But this means we’re still good to go on the October launch of this possible mind blowing particle accelerator.

For more about this historic event follow these links:

LHC on Current

The CERN website

The CERN compound as seen from orbit (Note that the collider ring follows a 17 mile course underground, crossing the French and Swiss borders.  If you look around you can find various outposts along the route)

The LHC live webcam

And finally… “Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet.com“

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