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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 05:25 AM
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Giant Particle Collider Fizzles

Many of the magnets meant to whiz subatomic particles around the 17-mile underground Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva have mysteriously lost their ability to operate at high energies.



By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: August 3, 2009

The biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections.


Many of the magnets meant to whiz high-energy subatomic particles around a 17-mile underground racetrack have mysteriously lost their ability to operate at high energies.

Some physicists are deserting the European project, at least temporarily, to work at a smaller, rival machine across the ocean.

After 15 years and $9 billion, and a showy “switch-on” ceremony last September, the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator outside Geneva, has to yet collide any particles at all.

But soon?

more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/science/earth/04collide.html
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 05:36 AM
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1. My bad, I stepped on the surge protector..nt
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 05:38 AM
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2. Dang. I didn't realize plugging in my hotpot would bog it down that much.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 06:17 AM
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3. "You Idiot!...It's 60 cycles in the USA, 50 cycles here"
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Duppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 06:47 AM
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4. Well, crap!
Hell...damn, etc.!

LOTS of folks are going to be disappointed and many physicists were depending on this working to further their research. Here's hoping they'll come up with some thing in Nov.




Stuck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy6cqFIljQo

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brendan120678 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 08:25 AM
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5. So does this mean that...
we won't all be sucked into a gigantic man-made black hole?

Shucks. I was looking forward to experiencing that!
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 09:59 AM
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6. We apologize for the convenience.
Armageddon will be restored as soon as possible. Your call is important to us.
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8 track mind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 01:23 PM
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7. Damn "sam's choice" batteries!
check the birth certificate sub-routine. it could have been forged.......
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