Thanks for the link, tullio. I like this line: "Lyn Evans, who oversaw the LHC from 1994 to 2009, says that the idea was considered and rejected because the alternative solder contained lead, a hazard to workers." Health and safety, eh? I wonder if they considered alternatives, or simply rejected the suggestion off-hand.
Thanks for the link, tullio. I like this line: "Lyn Evans, who oversaw the LHC from 1994 to 2009, says that the idea was considered and rejected because the alternative solder contained lead, a hazard to workers." Health and safety, eh? I wonder if they considered alternatives, or simply rejected the suggestion off-hand.
Should the LHC fail again, it would be the end of CERN. While, as a theoretical physicist, I sympathize with them, as an aluminium welder I cannot but agree with dr. Lucio Rossi. The problem was underestimated.
Tullio
Going by the lhcstatus twitter updates, they're finally threading the needle with the beam right now. The messages are brief, but I believe they got it to circulate once before dumping it, several times, and measured beam optics.
Thanks for the link, tullio. I like this line: "Lyn Evans, who oversaw the LHC from 1994 to 2009, says that the idea was considered and rejected because the alternative solder contained lead, a hazard to workers." Health and safety, eh? I wonder if they considered alternatives, or simply rejected the suggestion off-hand.
Should the LHC fail again, it would be the end of CERN. While, as a theoretical physicist, I sympathize with them, as an aluminium welder I cannot but agree with dr. Lucio Rossi. The problem was underestimated.
Tullio
If LHC works in 2010 and 2011 it will get so many data that even the Grid will be unable to process. So a stop is not such a bad news. Let's hope LHC can maintain a steady pace even not at full speed for these two years.
Tullio
According to CERN on Twitter, the BBC article simply restates what was already announced in February. In other words, this is not a new setback - it's what they decided was the best way forward a month ago.
In the 25 March issue of "Nature" magazine there is an article titled "LHC: The Large Human Collider" which describes a set of experiments involving ten thousand people from a sociology point of view. The article is interesting but I haven't linked it because the Nature policy about its articles is not clear to me. Sometimes I can read them, although I am not a paying subscriber,and sometimes not. This time I could read it and also download it in pdf format, but I am not sure I can make a link to it. It is an interesting article, try to read it if you can.
Tullio
Thanks for the link, tullio.
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Thanks for the link, tullio. I like this line: "Lyn Evans, who oversaw the LHC from 1994 to 2009, says that the idea was considered and rejected because the alternative solder contained lead, a hazard to workers." Health and safety, eh? I wonder if they considered alternatives, or simply rejected the suggestion off-hand.
RE: Thanks for the link,
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Should the LHC fail again, it would be the end of CERN. While, as a theoretical physicist, I sympathize with them, as an aluminium welder I cannot but agree with dr. Lucio Rossi. The problem was underestimated.
Tullio
Going by the lhcstatus
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Going by the lhcstatus twitter updates, they're finally threading the needle with the beam right now. The messages are brief, but I believe they got it to circulate once before dumping it, several times, and measured beam optics.
RE: RE: Thanks for the
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Some bad news:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8556621.stm
Verloren ist nur, wer sich selbst aufgibt. - Hans-Ulrich Rudel
If LHC works in 2010 and 2011
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If LHC works in 2010 and 2011 it will get so many data that even the Grid will be unable to process. So a stop is not such a bad news. Let's hope LHC can maintain a steady pace even not at full speed for these two years.
Tullio
According to CERN on Twitter,
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According to CERN on Twitter, the BBC article simply restates what was already announced in February. In other words, this is not a new setback - it's what they decided was the best way forward a month ago.
This gives an interesting
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This gives an interesting perspective on what is being banged together:
Try to find the electron
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3.5 TeV reachedLHC Tullio
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3.5 TeV reached
LHC
Tullio
In the 25 March issue of
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In the 25 March issue of "Nature" magazine there is an article titled "LHC: The Large Human Collider" which describes a set of experiments involving ten thousand people from a sociology point of view. The article is interesting but I haven't linked it because the Nature policy about its articles is not clear to me. Sometimes I can read them, although I am not a paying subscriber,and sometimes not. This time I could read it and also download it in pdf format, but I am not sure I can make a link to it. It is an interesting article, try to read it if you can.
Tullio
New Physics that the LHC can
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New Physics that the LHC can explore... That might not require higher energies.
NY Times article..
A new clue to explain Existence
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