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Subject: Hadron Collider restarts after 14 months
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 3:11 am
Full report on BBC News Online
The Large Hadron Collider experiment has re-started after a 14-month hiatus while the machine was being repaired.
Engineers have made two stable proton beams circulate in opposite directions around the machine, which is in a tunnel beneath the French-Swiss border.
The team may try to increase the £6bn ($10bn) collider's energy to record-breaking levels this weekend.
The LHC is being used to smash together beams of protons in a bid to shed light on the nature of the Universe.
It is the world's largest machine and is housed in a 27km-long circular tunnel.
During the experiment, scientists will search for signs of the Higgs boson, a sub-atomic particle that is crucial to our current understanding of physics. Although it is predicted to exist, scientists have never found it.
Subject: Re: Hadron Collider restarts after 14 months
Written By: LyricBoy on 11/21/09 at 8:53 am
$10 billion... shot to hell...
Subject: Re: Hadron Collider restarts after 14 months
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 8:54 am
$10 billion... shot to hell...
Who is paying for all this?
Subject: Re: Hadron Collider restarts after 14 months
Written By: LyricBoy on 11/21/09 at 3:29 pm
Who is paying for all this?
I suppose several governments around the world, as well as perhaps some university funds.
So... in other words... the average tax payer or tuition payer is whose dough was spent.
Subject: Re: Hadron Collider restarts after 14 months
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 3:33 pm
I suppose several governments around the world, as well as perhaps some university funds.
So... in other words... the average tax payer or tuition payer is whose dough was spent.
In other words, us?
Subject: Re: Hadron Collider restarts after 14 months
Written By: Jessica on 11/21/09 at 5:00 pm
Bah, you guys are just jealous that you can't waste $10 billion. :D
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r225/everest9005/large_hadron_collider.jpg
Subject: Re: Hadron Collider restarts after 14 months
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 8:46 am
Bah, you guys are just jealous that you can't waste $10 billion. :D
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r225/everest9005/large_hadron_collider.jpg
I could waste the money elsewhere.