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The volume is very very low on that one...

(((me)))

(but thanks for links! I went to CERN's website and their own webcast was not on due to 'large demand'... You'd think with all that technology they'd be prepared for that!)
 
No sound at work :(

One of the most fascinating things we might see and I am at my desk typing pointless emails to irritating people.
 
That's cos the beam is now 3 sectors of 4 round the main ring.

Guardian said:
There are four giant detectors around the ring, where ultimately two opposing beams will be crashed into one another. So far, the beam has gone past two of these detectors. One of the detectors has already picked up emissions from the beam striking a block that was put in place to halt the beam.
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So not only does the beamline work, so do the detectors...

same said:
09:23
The beam has now reached the last detector, the enormous one called ATLAS. They are one sector away from a complete circuit.
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Well, it's gone all the way around now :) Twice :)

I got up early especially :D

Now they've just got to send one back the other way around.
 
xes said:
oh fuck,they're all screaming and crying!!
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Apparently a lot of these people have been working on this project all their (working) life - today is a BIG BANG (sorry!) day for them!

This is making me wish I had an interesting job :(

I despair though, what is the point of all this technology? Radio 4's live broadcast is skipping and is impossible to hear it...
 
fuck i just shit in me pants....well i'm naked at the moment so technically i shit on the chair but whatever
 
I despair though, what is the point of all this technology?
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To discover new stuff, to test some of the most intricate and out there theories that humans have come up with about the structure and origins of the universe.

To reiterate a post I made much earlier in this thread - the money spent on the LHC was the equivalent of 3 days spending on the NHS, and was spread over 20 countries, with over 100 contributing parts, expertise etc. So not only is it an unbelievably cool experiment, it's also a tribute to the organisational, engineering and productive capacity of us as a species, especially when we work together.
 
kyser_soze said:
To discover new stuff, to test some of the most intricate and out there theories that humans have come up with about the structure and origins of the universe.

To reiterate a post I made much earlier in this thread - the money spent on the LHC was the equivalent of 3 days spending on the NHS, and was spread over 20 countries, with over 100 contributing parts, expertise etc. So not only is it an unbelievably cool experiment, it's also a tribute to the organisational, engineering and productive capacity of us as a species, especially when we work together.
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erm

I was talking about technology in terms of broadcasting the experiment on the internet. You edited out the last line of my post and took it out of context!

I do now what the point is behind the experiment, and all the technology that results from it. The www was invented at CERN, so was grid computing.
 
Iemanja said:
I despair though, what is the point of all this technology? Radio 4's live broadcast is skipping and is impossible to hear it...
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The point is to keep finding out stuff. Imagine if no one ever bothered trying to work out how the planets work in the solar system, or bothered to work out how to harness electricity, or got past worrying the sun might not rise the next morning if they'd been bad. There'd be no Star Trek or anything.

e2a: I just read your latest post, :oops:
 
To-the-point quote from Brit physicist Prof Brian Cox in today's Metro free paper:

Prof Brian Cox said:
Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat.
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He used to play keyboards for D:Ream (irrelevant factoid)
 
King Biscuit Time said:
Brian Cox is like the scientific Simon Armitage - The thing on BBC4 a few nights ago where he went through all the quarks sounded just like a Simon Armitage Poem (even though it was just a list of scientific terminology).
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:D It was great wasn't it :) Especially when he forgot one.

I like him a lot.

Top tip to replace Old Patrick? Or will that be that gangly blonde bloke who's on there with him quite often?
 
Brian Cox was terrible in the Horizon show about the LHC, 'The Big Bang Machine' - badly structured narrative and factually incorrect; he kept referring to ATLAS as being the detector tasked with finding the Higgs, which is in fact the CMS. Pretty major fuck up since he works there.
 
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