The LHC going online

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The Large Hadron Collider is activating tomorrow (specifically at 08:30 UTC). Discuss.  Oopsies, my mistake, it's not activating until next month. Sorry.

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[Kotztopf 1]

A black hole would be quite usefull for me, (Edited for language-91)

[Patricius Maximus 236]

Nuclear Physicists unite! Big day for that field. About the black hole theory, it would evaporate due to Hawking radiation before it could do much damage. Still, it would make an interesting study.

I'll be following this bit of news closely.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Go Science!

We need more science.

[ILL Tonkso 1,236]

Bring it on! Cannot wait

[Simfan34 11]

I do look foward to see what happens.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Wierd or not?

the Date will be 8-8-8 when this thing goes on.

[Craig91 12]

Easy Bakes: Doubt that's a cowinkydink, maybe it's for luck

[saltandsauce 0]

Hawking radiation? bullcrap

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I'm very eager to see what happens as well. Unfortunately I'm quite sure that most people (especially people in the states) will unaware of anything happening because the media will probably just be talking about Obama vs McCain... again.

As for the 888 thing, many of the titles of "Jesus" have the number eight as a prominent feature or factor. "KurioV" (Lord in greek)) has the value of 800. CristoV (Christ) is 1480 which has the factors 37x8x5. Alhqeia (Truth) is 8x8. Swthr (Savior) is 1408, 8x8x22. I think you see where I'm going. And of course, the name lhsouV (Jesus in greek) adds up to 888 as well. So it's probably a lucky number. Only thing is, I think it's more of a coincidence as the whole preporation of the LHC took a very long time. This could have been in the planning all along or something. Or perhaps they just changed the startup date a few days back or forward.

[belfastuniguy 18]

I seriously doubt the black hole will appear, something of an exaggeration.

I'm looking forward to this, will be a great day in the continued development and progression of science. Though most of the world will be watching the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Hawking radiation? bullcrapquote>

Do you ever know what that is or understand it, given the general history of your posting in these forums, I doubt it...and no typing it in Wikipedia does not count..

[Patricius Maximus 236]

Hawking Radiation -- a quantum condition in which virtual particles are created near its event horizon. One of the particles falls into the black hole and the other escapes. The one that falls in has negative energy, thus causing the black hole to lose mass.

That's how I understand it. Might not be exactly correct, since I'm not a quantum physicist.

8-8-08? I doubt if anything paranormal is going to happen because of that, but it is interesting. The Olympics start on August 8th also.

[toxicpiano 125]

NOOOOOOO WERE ALL GOING TO DIE

[panthersimcity4 162]

Interesting. I hate to admit this, but I actually knew nothing about this until now. (I know! Just get it over with and scold me )

In that case.... I better get a ton of cans of food and water jugs and hide in my basement for the impending apocalypse. (If you can't tell the sarcasm, I feel very sorry for you )

[coolotter88 2]

the olympics are due to start on 8-8-08 because the number 8 is auspicious in Chinese. Hey, maybe CERN will find the higgs boson, riding on chinese good luck .

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: coolotter88 the olympics are due to start on 8-8-08 because the number 8 is auspicious in Chinese. Hey, maybe CERN will find the higgs boson, riding on chinese good luck .quote>

No, they won't.

They will, however, succeed in giving a helicopter cancer.

[coolotter88 2]

I thought LHC turns on september 10th, where does this 8-8-08 number come from?

or august 9th, but no august 8

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/07/197255&from=rss

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: coolotter88 I thought LHC turns on september 10th, where does this 8-8-08 number come from?

or august 9th, but no august 8

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/07/197255&from=rssquote>

 

Hmm The original thread title was LHC activates in 24 hours.

On 8-7-08. 24 hours later would be 8-8-08.

Which may be 8-9-08 in france when it actualy tests.

Article

On 9 August, protons will be piped through LHC magnets for the first timequote>

Not exactly  running the actual tests but  a big step.

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Here we go... don't worry guys it'll be painless.

[belfastuniguy 18]

Cern lab set for beam milestone

By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News

The magnets are linked up in a chain for 27km

A vast physics experiment - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - reaches a key milestone this weekend ahead of an official start-up on 10 September.

Engineers had previously brought a beam of protons - tiny, sub-atomic particles - to the "doorstep" of the LHC.

On 9 August, protons will be piped through LHC magnets for the first time.

The most powerful physics experiment ever built, the LHC will re-create the conditions present in the Universe just after the Big Bang.

It's been a long-haul, and we're all eager to get the LHC research programme underway Lyn Evans, LHC project leader

For the two-day "synchronisation test", engineers will thread a low intensity beam through the injection system and one of the LHC's eight sectors.

These two sectors have now reached a sufficient level of readiness to handle the energetic stream of particles, and this opened up the opportunity to run the test.

The purpose of the test is to help ensure that the LHC is working in step with its injector, known as the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator.

Precision timing

Before a beam can be injected into the main ring, the proton beams have to be boosted to high energies in a chain of particle accelerators called injectors.

The SPS is the last link in this chain of injectors; it is from here that protons are fed directly into the LHC ring via two "injection lines" - one for each beam.

"The aim is to get the timings right between the two machines and in order to do that we will take some beam into sector 2-3," said Roberto Saban, the LHC's head of hardware commissioning.

Each detector is the sum of many complicated elements

Cern, the organisation that operates the collider, said it will attempt to circulate two proton beams all the way around the ring on 10 September. This is considered the giant lab's official "switch-on".

"It's been a long haul, and we're all eager to get the LHC research programme underway," said Lyn Evans, the project leader.

This full beam injection will take place at an energy of about 450 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). Over subsequent weeks, engineers will gradually boost the energy and fine tune the machine.

The proton beams are fired down pipes running through the magnets. Once engineers have two beams running, they will travel in opposite directions around the main ring at super-fast speeds.

Beam collision

When the collider is commissioned, the beams will cross paths at allotted points along the tunnel, smashing into one another with cataclysmic force.

Scientists hope to see new particles in the debris of these collisions, revealing fundamental new insights into the nature of the cosmos and how it came into being.

In order to obtain high magnetic fields without consuming too much power, the LHC's magnets need to be "superconducting".

This is the property, exhibited by some materials at very low temperatures, to channel electrical current with zero resistance and very little power loss.

This requires cooling the magnets to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F). Six out of eight sectors are currently at their operating temperatures; cooling of the remaining two should be completed in the next few weeks.

Over August, scientists will continue electrical testing of the LHC hardware prior to circulating beams in early September.

This phase will continue into September to ensure that the entire machine is capable of accelerating and colliding beams at an energy of five teraelectronvolts (TeV).

Once stable, circulating beams have been established, they will be smashed together - in preparation for the LHC's science phase.quote>

[xmike1991 2]

Well..if there is a black hole, and we all die..it'll be quick and we wont be concious afterwards. so...dont really care.

[Patricius Maximus 236]

Exciting. I can't wait for them to report their findings.

[Craig91 12]

AHHHHH!!!!! We're all going to die before we get a chance to be scared...I supposse it's as good a way as any for the planet to end...just kidding...but not really...So, I don't know when the thread was renamed to 1 hour so what time (GMT) is this thing going on line at?

[JanYpe 17]

Originally posted by: CraigKingOfIreland AHHHHH!!!!! We're all going to die before we get a chance to be scared...I supposse it's as good a way as any for the planet to end...just kidding...but not really...So, I don't know when the thread was renamed to 1 hour so what time (GMT) is this thing going on line at?quote>

It has gone online, and everyone is actually dead already.

[your_adress_here 11]

Originally posted by: Kotztopf A black hole would be quite usefull for me, (Edited for language-91)

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Wow now that's a dumb edit. There was no bad language.

Anyways, wake me up if anything explodes.

[hym 358]

Originally posted by: JanYpe

Originally posted by: CraigKingOfIreland AHHHHH!!!!! We're all going to die before we get a chance to be scared...I supposse it's as good a way as any for the planet to end...just kidding...but not really...So, I don't know when the thread was renamed to 1 hour so what time (GMT) is this thing going on line at?quote>

It has gone online, and everyone is actually dead already.

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There wouldn't happen to be a link between your comment and Schrodinger's cat, would there?

[Explodingsims 3]

Well, It's online and I'm still here!

Take that Technophobes!!

[TV-VCR 14]

Originally posted by: Explodingsims Well, It's online and I'm still here!

Take that Technophobes!!quote>

It's not October 21st yet.

[Goldfish4209 9]

This should be interesting. If any breakthroughs are made, when should we expect them?

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: Goldfish4209 This should be interesting. If any breakthroughs are made, when should we expect them?quote>

 

Probably years. Even after they run the experiments they have to process all the information

the sensors collected. Looking for one out of the ordinary blip in Gagillions of bits of information.