November 21, 2009
up and at ‘em
After a year knocked out by electrical failure, the Large Hadron Collider is running again.
When the machine is fully operational, the magnets will control the beams of protons and send them in opposite directions through two parallel tubes the size of fire hoses. In rooms as large as cathedrals 300 feet (100 meters) below the ground the magnets will force them into huge detectors to record what happens.
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Did you know that they already ‘found’ the Higgs boson at the Tevatron? All the LHC will do is ‘confirm’ it.
Incidentally, Fermilab who own the Tevatron, provided to the LHC its superconducting magnets that went kaput last year. Nothing suspicious about that.
Does anyone else hear the Emperor in their head every time they see the phrase *fully operational*?
Yes, they found it in Rolf Heuer’s ass and can’t find a delicate way to tell us.