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It's All About Energy At The LHC
British CMS Team weighing the Higgs. Even one particle of dust could skew the results. That's why there are about 150 million sensors in the main experiments, 60 million tracker and pixel channels in...
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Near An Inevitable LHC Disaster
On the left, a U of Liverpool contribution to the Velo Detector for the LHCb experiment. The sophistication of so many components, most of them custom designed and built for the LHC, means their...
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Nostradamus And The LHC
A detail from a watercolor in the Vaticinia Nostradami codex, 1629 AD, at the Central National Library, Rome. The current buzz on the internet is a prophecy by Nostradamus that seems to indicate a...
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Science, Prophecy And Art At The LHC
The Mayan influence on the floor of the CERN Visitor Center, artist Serge Moro. A friend ribbed me about the previous post on Nostradamus And The LHC, you can read anything you want into those...
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Superfluids, BECs And Bosenovas: The Ultimate Experiment At The LHC
The first BEC, a rubidium-87, at 3 temperatures, 400nK, 200nK and 50nK, each pile of atoms 1 mm wide, activity greater nearer absolute zero, NIST 1995In a familiar world of solids, liquids and gases,...
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LHC Sci-Fi And Critics Buried In The Blogosphere
The British ATLAS Team inspecting their Stargate Portal, the higher-dimensional ‘shipping container’ ready for activation, beating the American LOST Team by 2.2 years. The Russians were the first to...
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LHC News Update
Well Fuk, over to you.Right Brian. Over on Earth, 'Red Button Day' is fast approaching. That's when they push the big red button at the Large Hadron Collider.It's finally a go, right Fuk?We make it a...
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LHC Start-up To Shut-down 2008
After the Olympics, the next big thing is the international Large Hadron Collider. There's a lot of excitement at CERN. The first injections, and without a hitch, of low energy protons shot through an...
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Suit Alleges CERN In Violation Of Human Rights
Yesterday, a group of LHC critics filed a suit against CERN in the European Court of Human Rights, in Strasbourg . The authors of the suit are physicists, professors and students largely from Germany...
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Stop CERN Euro Court Action Slips And Slides Forward
LHC Kritiks in Switzerland, Germany and Austria survived the first ruling on their case by the European Court for Human Rights, August 29th. So did CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which will go ahead...
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The Black Hand Of Dr Cern
Not a 50's B movie, but the latest Press Release from the biggest black hole on the planet, sucking up an astronomical $10 billion and ready for more, (gulp) dollars. What an appetite! Even now it's...
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LHC Not So Safe
The Greek Security Team, computer hackers who know Greek at least, left this souvenir behind on the CMS experiment's computer system. The attacks went on for two days, September 9 and 10, part way...
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LHC Fails Thunderstorm Test
Nature had her own ideas about testing LHC safety. A thunderstorm last Friday knocked out some transformers at the LHC near Geneva that are part of the helium cooling system, that cools the magnets...
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Accident Cripples LHC
No collisions, no beams either next week at the LHC. The BBC reports an alarming quench of about 100 superconducting magnets today, that heated up as much as 100 C. A tonne of liquid helium spilled...
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LHC Quench Stops CERN: Re-start Delayed Again
After last Friday's massive quench at the LHC, CERN has announced that re-starting the collider will have to wait even beyond 2 months for repairs and downtime. With a planned winter shutdown in late...
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Politics And Science At The LHC
In the days before Madison Avenue, public relations and spin doctors, Science was free to speak for itself. Like any other activity it was criticized and judged on its activites and results by media...
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Someday This Crazy World Will Have To End
PD Smith writes on science and literature as cultural history. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian Review, the Independent and the essay below is from...
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LHC Beams Back To Life
After a major accident a year ago and $40 Million to fix it, CERN quietly announced today that the LHC has passed some preliminary tests on its way to a restart this November. Some low power proton...
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Colliders Are Forever
M's OFFICE LONDONWhat do you know about CIRC in Geneva, Commander Bond?Not much sir. Centre International pour la Récherche Circulaire. About says it all. They've built the world's largest Dyson Ball...
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CERN Escape Pod Ready At The LHC
"Yellow Submarine" Prepared For Launch Just In CaseCollider safety has always been a hot button issue at the LHC. Now we know just where that button is connected. CERN of course will say that their...
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