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Large Hadron Collider

cesare said:
:D

The next model will probably be the Huge Hadron Collider.
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Nah, it's the radio telescope community who are currently indulging themselves in increasingly large names (Very Large Array, Extremely large Array, Ultra Large Array etc). The on-the-table project for the LHC's sucessor is the somwhat prosaicly named International Linear Collider, the prime feature of which will be that, as it's name suggests, instead of a circle it's two straight-line beams smashing at a middle point.

However, until the LHC has been properly run in and it's maximum energy output established (the Tevatron in the US outperformed it's design specs, and there's every reason to believe the LHC will too), that the design team can start thinking about peak energy and the kinds of experiment they should be designing...

Beyond the LHC
 
kyser_soze said:
Nah, it's the radio telescope community who are currently indulging themselves in increasingly large names (Very Large Array, Extremely large Array, Ultra Large Array etc). The on-the-table project for the LHC's sucessor is the somwhat prosaicly namedInternational Linear Collider, the prime feature of which will be that, as it's name suggests, instead of a circle it's two straight-line beams smashing at a middle point.
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I could get lost for hours reading that stuff :cool:

*resists temptation*
 
A few years ago I experimented with my own home made particle collider. I got two CRT monitors and faced them opposite to each other at a distance of six inches and switched them on.

After 5 minutes the floor was absolutely covered with what I later found out to be Higgs Boson particles. It took an hour to vacuum them all up and put them in the dustbin.
 
Hocus Eye. said:
After 5 minutes the floor was absolutely covered with what I later found out to be Higgs Boson particles. It took an hour to vacuum them all up and put them in the dustbin.
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oh.

so we've actually found the higgs-boson already then?!


*ticks off list*
 
kyser_soze said:
The on-the-table project for the LHC's sucessor is the somwhat prosaicly named International Linear Collider, the prime feature of which will be that, as it's name suggests, instead of a circle it's two straight-line beams smashing at a middle point.
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I was at a meeting on that the other day. It's going to be a 50km long waveguide, machined to 2 micron tolerances along the entire length.

Physicists - they're marvellous :D
 
Hocus Eye. said:
A few years ago I experimented with my own home made particle collider. I got two CRT monitors and faced them opposite to each other at a distance of six inches and switched them on.

After 5 minutes the floor was absolutely covered with what I later found out to be Higgs Boson particles. It took an hour to vacuum them all up and put them in the dustbin.
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You did it wrong.

You want Two cameras linked to monitors pointing at each other in a darkroom. Switch them on and then strike a match between the Two for visual feedback and Higgs Boson particles :)

You got the all the mess without the visuals!
 
Stanley Edwards said:
You did it wrong.

You want Two cameras linked to monitors pointing at each other in a darkroom. Switch them on and then strike a match between the Two for visual feedback and Higgs Boson particles :)

You got the all the mess without the visuals!
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thats for seperating out quark, stangeness and charm particles. works better with a clipper too
 
Pingu said:
thats for seperating out quark, stangeness and charm particles. works better with a clipper too
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:cool:

Cameras and monitors are cheap enough to not give a shit these days :)

I'm going to buy loads when I have my own place to fill with borked clutter again.
 
If I'd just recreated the conditions a millionth or something after the big bang I'd be smashing the champers as well. Fair play guys :cool:
 
You want visuals do you Stanley. You might be in luck:-

"They recorded a handful of collisions, and one of them looks quite nice, so it's on their web site," Dr Sutton said.
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Millions of Euros all spent so as to make a pretty pattern for a web page. :mad:
 
Was it the magnets that were made from melted down soviet battleships?

Science + swords-to-ploughshares= win :cool:
 
Hocus Eye. said:
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Millions of Euros all spent so as to make a pretty pattern for a web page. :mad:
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BBC-logo.jpg


:)
 
The press release is going on now, am watching the webcast thing.

It sounds like it's getting a bit of interference from a few dimensions they've dragged closer.

Oops!

I'm going to go and have lunch with myself. Why break a habit I suppose...
 
According to the not even slightly barking Walter L Wagner and his not even slightly hatstand lhcdefense.org website 61% of people in an AOL survey said that operating the LHC wasn't worth the risk. :facepalm:

If that's not a good enough reason to fire up the magnets I don't know what is :)
 
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