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Category: LHC
I dislike the term "god particle" but I could not resist the play on words ... as researchers at Fermilab suggest that there may be five different versions of the Higgs boson, not just one. This would require, apparently, some rewriting of the Standard Model....
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:06 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LHC
Over the last week two vacuum leaks have been found in sectors 8-1 and 2-3 (Sector 7g is still holding). The leaks are similar to each other in position and therefore in likely cause. Unfortunately, these leaks are in already chilled down parts of the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:16 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LHC
Sometime this fall or early winter, they are going to turn the Large Hadron Collider back on. It may run for several minutes or hours and then break down again. In fact, expect that. This is a huge machine the like of which have never...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:17 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LHC
Because the black holes that the big machine will probably create will decay too quickly to start an irreversible sucking-into-the-black-hole kind of effect. But wait, there is a glitch in that theory. As being reported by the Physics arXiv blog, Black holes from the LHC...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:08 PM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LHC
LHC to restart in 2009 Geneva, 5 December 2008. CERN today confirmed that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will restart in 2009. This news forms part of an updated report, published today, on the status of the LHC following a malfunction on 19 September. "The...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:39 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LHC
What went wrong was exactly the kind of thing that used to go wrong for me almost every time I tried to build something like the LHC in my secret laboratory when I was a kid. The electricity got the better of part of the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:37 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LHC
(BTW: It does not "straddle both France and Switzerland" ... it straddles the border.) Totally stolen from ABATC...
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Category: LHC
This is the CERN press release regarding the status of the Large Hadron Collider. The bottom line: There was a release of helium leak inot sector 3-4 (which I'm pretty sure is next to sector 7g). They thik they know what caused the leak but...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:31 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LHC
According to a widely disseminated story (see this) the Large Hadron Collider broke only hours after it started operations last week. This is an atrocity and an example of something seriously, endemically wrong with science more generally....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:19 AM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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