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I'm not aware of any taxpayers money going into it; I was under the impression that it was all privately financed??????


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I'm not aware of any taxpayers money going into it; I was under the impression that it was all privately financed??????


I find that hard to believe, I was under the impression it came out the Science budgets of several European states..Britain Included.. here its the STFC quango money...your Money.. :?

Check this link..

http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About/wwd/wwdContents.aspx


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I knew someone would come up with the answer before I had a chance to ask my gamma-ray, edge of the universe, researching son!!


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It Does Not Like A Baguette Either!!

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this must be the unluckiest science project of all time !


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Beam Sent From Large Hadron Collider After 14 Months Of Repairs

9:23 AM on 21st November 2009

The world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, has been re-started after 14 months of repairs.

The $10billion (£6billion) machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago – just nine days after the launch.

Scientists are hoping the results from the device, which was designed to smash together beams of protons in a bid to recreate conditions after the Big Bang, will shed some light on the makeup of matter and the universe.

About $40million (£24million) was spent on repair work.

Progress on restarting the machine, on the border between Switzerland and France, went faster than expected on Friday.

The first beam circulated in a clockwise direction around the machine at about 10pm.

Two hours later the scientists circulated another beam in the opposite direction, which was the initial goal in getting the machine going again and moving it toward collisions of protons.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as Cern, has taken the restart of the collider step by step to avoid further setbacks as it moves toward new scientific experiments - probably starting in January.

‘It's great to see beam circulating in the LHC again,’ Director General Rolf Heuer said.

‘We've still got some way to go before physics can begin, but with this milestone we're well on the way.’

The Large Hadron Collider, which was heavily damaged by a simple electrical fault in September 2008, is expected to deliver milestone discoveries in 2010.

Source; MailOnline - dailymail.co.uk

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The world’s largest atom smasher, . . . .

Make is sound like such a simple machine!!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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I found this today, albeit 14 months too late! It makes interesting reading:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7543089.stm


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well yesterday they were up and running smashing their first atoms albeit not on full power yet and they didn't manage to blow the planet up maybe in a few weeks time when they reach full power :lol:

Oh and apparently the answer to "is there a god particle" was 42 :lol:


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Large Hadron Collider to start hunt for 'God particle'
Engineers have been installing a new protection system for the LHC's magnets


Tuesday, 23 March, 2010

By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News


The organisation that operates the Large Hadron Collider has set a date for the start of its science programme.

On Tuesday 30 March, engineers at Cern will make their first attempt to collide beams at an energy of 3.5 trillion electronvolts (TeV) per beam.

The LHC reached this beam energy last week, breaking its own particle beam energy record.

But, among other things, engineers will need to ensure the beams are stable at 3.5 TeV before trying for collisions.

The LHC will search for the elusive Higgs boson, dubbed the "God particle" because of its importance to our understanding of physics.

"Symbolically, the start of the LHC research programme is when we start systematically colliding beams for physics at the energy we have chosen for this year," Cern's director of communications Dr James Gillies, told BBC News.

"That's what we're hoping for a week today."

Steve Myers, director for accelerators and technology at Cern, explained: "With two beams at 3.5 TeV, we're on the verge of launching the LHC physics programme.

"But we've still got a lot of work to do before collisions. Just lining the beams up is a challenge in itself. It's a bit like firing needles across the Atlantic and getting them to collide half way."

'Golden orbit'

The experiment, housed in a 27km-long tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva in Switzerland, has only been back online since November 2009.

A magnet fault caused one tonne of liquid helium to leak into the tunnel in 2008, shortly after the machine was first switched on, requiring a programme of repairs that lasted 14 months.

Between now and 30 March, the LHC's team will be working to commission the beam control systems and the systems that protect the machine's detectors, or experiments, from stray particles.

All these systems must be fully commissioned before collisions at 3.5 TeV can begin, Cern says.

"Getting beams circulating is one thing. Having them circulate for a reasonable lifetime is another. Having a 'golden orbit' - where the beams complete lap after lap after lap for hours - is important," Dr Gillies said.

"All of these things you have to do before the machine operators can say: 'the beams are now stable, you can switch on the detectors."

The LHC is being used to smash together beams of proton particles in a bid to shed light on the nature of the Universe.

Some 1,200 superconducting magnets bend proton beams in opposite directions around the tunnel at close to the speed of light.

At allotted points around the tunnel, the proton beams cross paths, allowing particles to smash into one another.

Detectors located at the crossing points will scour the wreckage of these collisions for discoveries that extend our knowledge of physics.

Source; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8582778.stm

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The bit I find hillarious is that the whole thing is going to have to be rebuilt next year because the builders took a few shortcuts and didn't make it strong enough to cope with full power that'll teach them to use polish builders :lol:


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The bit I find hillarious is that the whole thing is going to have to be rebuilt next year because the builders took a few shortcuts and didn't make it strong enough to cope with full power that'll teach them to use polish builders :lol:

Yes, but, yes, but, . . . it does sparkle on the inside & outside!!

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On Tuesday 30 March, engineers at Cern will make their first attempt to collide beams at an energy of 3.5 trillion electronvolts (TeV) per beam


What galls me is the scientific world telling us to use less leccy to stop climate change...then go and waste a billion times as much to create a few sparks..... :roll:


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I thought they had access to a hydroelectric power station ?


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I thought they had access to a hydroelectric power station ?


Even if they had...the power from which could be better served powering homes as appeasing the whims of a few scientists in search of the Higgs Bosun particle... :roll:


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