Did they get that sucker back up, and running again?
They answered that question on the site as well.
(actually, I'm not sure if it was repaired yet, but they are restarting it in spring 09)
My bad. I hardly ever follow links.
I can tell ya still haven't. ;-)
what are the similarities between the hadron collider and the Princeton Excellerator?
Uh, they both cost more than I've earned in a livetime?
I have now! Thanks, nimh. It was obvious, but I needed that, anyway.
Uh oh. I bet I just fell for something else real stupid.
But it has shown zero tolerance to large hadrons.
They're looking for quarks. They are my favourite sub-atomic particles coz they come in nicely weird 'flavours', such us 'up', 'down', 'strange' and 'charm'.
Quark is also the German word for a cheese like ricotta. These physicists are either seriously dope-smokers or just having us on.
It appears that due to shoddy workmanship that we don't need to worry about the earth getting sucked into a man made black whole for a couple of years
Quote:CERN will not try for seven trillion electron volts until after a prolonged shutdown, during which the technicians plan to fix all the faulty splices. In addition to the splice problems, many of the magnets that steer the protons around the ring have mysteriously lost their ability to withstand enough current to steer high-energy protons. They will have to be “retrained,” in physicist jargon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/science/space/07collider.html?hpw
Mr Stillwater wrote:
But it has shown zero tolerance to large hadrons.
They're looking for quarks. They are my favourite sub-atomic particles coz they come in nicely weird 'flavours', such us 'up', 'down', 'strange' and 'charm'.
Quark is also the German word for a cheese like ricotta. These physicists are either seriously dope-smokers or just having us on.
They were named after a line in "Finnegan's Wake" by James Joyce.
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