LHC

LHC Black Hole Maker out of Order for One Year

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In September 2008 the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) aka Black Hole Maker died 10 days after turning it on. Now CERN says the LHC is going to see the restart earliest September of 2009.
The first collisions will be then in late October. All LHC apocalypse believers can enjoy still this summer before the LHC will produce a black hole that sucks in the earth in Fall. Read more

Posted on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:33:41 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Black Hole Maker LHC is Out of Order for Months

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The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) aka Black Hole Maker started out so well, that the scientists could actually not believe it. Now about 10 days into operation the LHC is 'kaputt' for at least 2 months.

On Friday several of the super-cooled magnets started to heat up and liquid helium leaked. Read more

Posted on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:10:17 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hackers attacked LHC Servers at CERN

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The "Black Hole Maker" LHC has been switched on a couple days ago amidst high attention. The press was making fun of end of world fears triggered by the largest scientific experiment of mankind.
Now apparently some hackers have gotten pretty close in gaining control of one of the huge detectors of the LHC raising security concerns. Read more

Posted on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LHC works and produces first Images

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The LHC (aka Black Hole Maker was switched on a couple hours ago and the first beam of protons made the 27km roundtrip smashing into an absorbing device called collimator. An image of that event can be seen on the right.
Apparently the LHC worked like a charm to the surprise of the present physicists. Hey, it better works, it costs a fortune. Read more

Posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:18:35 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

CERN Black Hole Maker LHC starts circulating Tomorrow

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For some tomorrow is the end of the world as we know it as CERN is switching on the LHC and starts creating tiny black holes.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been built in a circular tunnel 27km in circumference. The tunnel is buried around 50 to 175m underground. It straddles the Swiss and French borders on the outskirts of Geneva as reported back in 2005.
CERN is now circulating the first beams on September 10, 2008. The first collisions at high energy are still expected to be a month later with the first results from the experiments soon after. Read more

Posted on Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:15:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

CERN's Black Hole Maker LHC on Track

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I saw a report on TV about the CERN LHC (Large Hadron Collider) that should be finished in 2007, and its just crazy how huge this thing is.

The LHC just got its first magnet. 5,000 will be placed around the 27km long particle accelerator. The magnets are superconducting.
In the report I saw the hopes are that the LHC will help understand dark matter by producing mini black holes.
More details on BBC News and on CERN's site.

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Posted on Tue, 8 Mar 2005 02:46:31 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr