LHC powered up!

[GGTharos]

Today (September 10th) the Large Hadron Collider was powered up, two years late.

 

At a cost of approximately 5 billion pounds (10 billion dollars), this experiment is intended to confirm the existence of the Higgs Boson, also known as the 'God Particle'. According to one of the Quantum Physics predictions, it is interaction with this particle or its associated field that gives other particles mass.

 

This experiment could therefore confirm the Standart Model and answer the question 'what is mass?'

[Boberro]

Hope it won't be Half-Life failure experiment and headcrabs Earth invasion lol :D

 

 

 

 

Now seriously, it is fantastic, I am very impressed about this structure, so long tunnel, complicated counts, various High-Tech accelerators, whoa really big high-end engineering...

[EagleEye]

^^^:lol: Boberro!

[Groove]

Nice Boberro !

 

Today they successfully made some full turns with the pencil-like shaped proton ray.

 

Mid October will be the first serious experiment afaik.

 

PS: Friend of mine is working on the ATLAS Device.

[Case]

Exciting and interesting times ahead, that's for sure! It would be great if they actually found the Higgs boson. :smartass:

[Pilotasso]

Interesting, the watter surface started to slope on my cup and slide on top of my desk... :huh:

 

hmmmm

[Cosmonaut]

 

Mid October will be the first serious experiment afaik.

 

 

I heard the same thing, a few weeks before any results will be released.

 

Should make for some interesting documentaries once things get underway and we see what happened a fraction of a second after the big space boom, boom. :P

[Boberro]

Hahah black hole is up :D People, run away ;]

 

Here is a webcam showing a part of the LHC

 

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Edited September 12, 2008 by Boberro

[Groove]

There are some very interesting things about the LHC.

 

Like the 30 Gigabyte /s data output which has to be analyzed on the fly before being transfered to the storage for an later analysis.

[Case]

Like the 30 Gigabyte /s data output which has to be analyzed on the fly before being transfered to the storage for an later analysis.

It is no coincidence that things like the internet originated from CERN.

 

Another science experiment is LOFAR, which is going to collect astrophysical radio signals from the sky from many small receivers. This data also has to be analyzed and processed in realtime. The amount of data transfer and processing power needed is just staggering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOFAR

 

The design of this telescope relies on the forming of beam, similar to what is done in modern radars.

[goro]

Next one model of "Large Gudron Collider"

 

After collider start:

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlAGdLp5OUQ&feature=related

 

2)

Edited September 12, 2008 by goro