September restart for 'Big Bang' collider

Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:33 pm » by **Becks**

The giant sub-atomic particle collider built to reproduce "Big Bang" conditions is set to restart this September, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) says.
Scientists believe they have figured out how to prevent a repeat of the problems that caused the 10 billion Swiss franc ($11.4 billion) Large Hadron Collider to be shut down just nine days after it was switched on last September, CERN expert Steve Myers said.

The machine - the largest and most complex ever made - overheated because of a faulty splice in the super-conducting cable connecting two cooling magnets, according to Mr Myers.

There are 10,000 splices around the underground collider's 27km ring, which smashes particles together at a temperature of just above absolute zero to recreate the conditions believed to have been present at the beginning of the universe 13.7 billion years ago.

CERN has put back the start date several times, and most recently said the collider would restart in September.

"Many new tests have been developed," Myers said. "That has given us a wealth of information about the LHC splices, and confidence that we will be in good shape for running this year."

Among the repairs and modifications made to the collider - which are thought to cost up to $37.2 million - are a system to respond to any heating up of its core, several added pressure relief valves, improved vacuum technology, and stronger anchors connecting its magnets to the floor.

"All of this contributes to preparing the machine for a long and safe operational lifetime," CERN said.

Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:40 pm » by **Darrylmckay**

typical scientists, the old philosophy of, well it could blow up and destroy the world but we will never know unless we try, the old theory of well if it does there will be no one left around to blame us for it.

Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:09 pm » by **end0fall**

do these nutcase scientists know what they are fucking with here? no? thought not!
this is probably more frightening than being locked in a room with a chainsaw fanatic madman.

Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:15 pm » by **Darrylmckay**

Hey lay off the chainsaw weilding madmen, at least they know what the result of thier actions will be when they start cutting. Its not "lets see what will happen if i cut this guy in half, you never know he might survive".

Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:49 pm » by **end0fall**

darrylmckay wrote:Hey lay off the chainsaw weilding madmen, at least they know what the result of thier actions will be when they start cutting. Its not "lets see what will happen if i cut this guy in half, you never know he might survive".

as hard as it is to admit when i get pwnt...well you TOTALLY just pwnt me lol good work

Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:03 pm » by **end0fall**

i dont claim to know but what i do know is fucking with the unknown can lead to disaster and thats the common mans science.

what wormhole thing?

Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:07 pm » by **Kyo121**

end0fall wrote:i dont claim to know but what i do know is fucking with the unknown can lead to disaster and thats the common mans science.

what wormhole thing?

it open up a wormhole last time and Sliders jumped through :flop:

Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:10 am » by **Clawspiracy**

My gut says it wont work... again. Yes, I am a allowed a bit of smugness since I predicted it would break down the first time. :sunny:

Maybe there are things that were not meant to be found. :dunno:

Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:16 am » by **Darrylmckay**

I just hope they dont get it working and discover that our entire universe consists of sub atomic particles floating around in somethings coffee table, which by the way is a personal theory of mine regarding the nature of the universe (copywrite 1993), if it turns out to be true I'm going to make a mint.

Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:34 am » by **Texas6431**

they need to be all locked in a padded cell
refer to my sig plz

"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly.
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
- Nikola Tesla.

Also

"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. Nikola Tesla

and

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Nikola Tesla"

yea pretty much .....that man spoke the truth...they hated him for it..