Quick restart of Big Bang machine stuns scientists
---ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 25 mins ago
GENEVA – Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.
The nuclear physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider were surprised that they could so quickly get beams of protons whizzing near the speed of light during the restart late Friday, said James Gillies, spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
The machine was heavily damaged by a simple electrical fault in September last year.
Some scientists had gone home early Friday and had to be called back as the project jumped ahead, Gillies said.
At a meeting early Saturday "they basically had to tear up the first few pages of their PowerPoint presentation which had outlined the procedures that they were planning to follow," he said. "That was all wrapped up by midnight. They are going through the paces really very fast."
The European Organization for Nuclear Research has taken the restart of the collider step by step to avoid further setbacks as it moves toward new scientific experiments — probably starting in January — regarding the makeup of matter and the universe.
CERN, as it is known, had hoped by 7 a.m. (0600 GMT) Saturday to get the beams to travel the 27-kilometer (17-mile) circular tunnel under the Swiss-French border, but things went so well Friday evening that they had achieved the operation seven hours earlier.
Praise from scientists around the world was quick. "First beam through the Atlas!" whooped an Internet message from Adam Yurkewicz, an American scientist working on the massive Atlas detector on the machine.
"I congratulate the scientists and engineers that have worked to get the LHC back up and running," said Dennis Kovar of the U.S. Department of Energy, which participates in the project.
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"Now, excitement and mysticism are building again around the $10 billion machine as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) gears up to circulate a high-energy proton beam around the collider's 17-mile tunnel. The event should take place this month, said Steve Myers, CERN's Director for Accelerators and Technology."
It's back ON!
If it's true that they are trying to stop this from the future why wouldn't they communicate instead, may be some kind of intelligent signal?
A top scientist working at the Large Hadron Collider has suggested that the giant machine could create a rift to new, unknown dimensions upon activation this month.
“Out of this door might come something, or we might send something to it,”
The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to... more
Psychic channeling on the CERN LHC particle accelerator creating a black hole or strangelet. Also see my other videos on a Nostradamus prophecy that could be about the CERN LHC, and the possibility of a Black Hole eating earth.
From T. Chase who is the channeler, and Revelation13.net. Copyright 2009 by T. Chase. From the Revelation13.net web site, also see Revelation13.net (Revelation 13: Prophecies of the Future, Astrology, Nostradamus, Bible Prophecy, the King James version English Bible Code).Psychic channeling on the CERN LHC particle accelerator creating a black hole or... more
Over the weekend, Cern ran particle beams through the Large Hadron Collider for the first time since it was shut down last September. After a helium leak caused magnets to overheat, operations at the LHC were suspended for cleanup and repairs. After tests on October 23 and 25, scientists hope to have the LHC running again in full by November.
The LHC ring -- which measures 17 miles all around -- is divided into eight sectors, two of which were tested this weekend. Scientists introduced proton and lead ion beams clockwise and counterclockwise through the 2.2-mile-long sectors. Cern reported that results showed "a perfect functioning of the machine," in preparation for a fully circulating beam next month.
Superconducting magnets in the LHC function at a temperature of 2 Kelvin -- that's two degrees above absolute zero. Maintaining this kind of cold requires the use of superfluid helium, which in turn allows the electrical current to pass through without encountering any resistance, Cern's Christine Darve told PopSci.com. By sending the intense proton beams through what she calls a "moon vacuum," scientists are able to reap 100 times more energy than through a normal magnet.
By 2011, scientists hope to accelerate the proton beams up to 3.5 trillion electron volts, but this weekend they started out with just 450 billion. Collisions of the beams as they travel at near lightspeed may yield new particles, which scientists hope will provide clues about the Big Bang and the nature of the universe.
While this may be possible in the future, scientists are now glad to see that the magnets, which are connected by six conductors capable of transmitting up to 13,000 amps each, are once again in working order.Over the weekend, Cern ran particle beams through the Large Hadron Collider for the... more
Could the Large Hadron Collider be sabotaging itself from the future? That's the suggestion of a couple of reasonably distinguished theoretical physicists, which has received a fresh airing in the New York Times today.
Actually, it's the Higgs boson that is doing the sabotage. Apparently, among the many singular properties of the Higgs that the LHC is meant to discover could be the ability to turn back time to stop its cover being blown.
Or as the New York Times puts it:
"the hypothesized Higgs boson... might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather."
That is the ultimate reason, suggest the duo - Danish string theory pioneer Holger Bech Nielsen and the Japanese physicist Masao Ninomiya - why Congress stopped the funding for the USA's Superconducting Super Collider in 1993, and why the LHC itself suffered such an embarrassing meltdown shortly after starting up last year.
Reading the first paper from a couple of years ago and the follow-up last week, it's not quite clear to me how or why the Higgs contrives to influence the minds of Congressmen, or cause LHC magnets to overheat from its point of discovery some time in the future. Even trying to consider how it would achieve such feats makes my own magnets overheat.
The authors clear up some of the mystery by describing their model as starting with "a series of not completely convincing, but still suggestive, assumptions".
Some more excitable corners of the physics blogosphere have been considerably less polite about the theory.
Even more fun is Nielsen and Ninomiya's suggestion of how their theory might be tested: with a card game.
First, take a million or so cards, each scribbled with a future fate for the LHC. Make them overwhelmingly read "carry on", but add just one or two saying "shut the thing down".
If you pull one of the "shut down" ones at random, you have pretty good proof that the Higgs is trying to tell you something from the future.
I don't know what happens if you disobey the warning: perhaps that's where the thing with the black holes that eat the world come in.
I'm not sure anyone in charge needs my advice on this, but I'd be tempted to go ahead with the LHC restart anyway, just on the off-chance Nielsen and Ninomiya are wrong.
If the thing keeps on failing to work, at least you have the perfect excuse: it wasn't me, it was the Higgs.Could the Large Hadron Collider be sabotaging itself from the future? That's the... more
How come news can never come out of the Large Hadron Collider that doesn't remind us of our planet's impending SciFi Techno-Apocalypse(tm)? When not busy being called a doomsday machine, being bedeviled by hackers and Chuck Norris (yuck!), or just plain failing, the facility could be used to test "hyperdrive" spacecraft propulsion. Seriously! And you know what that means -- someone is planning on escaping the planet, and fast. A physicist named Franklin Felber has been musing over a little known German paper from the 1920s ("The Foundations of Physics" by David Hilbert) which states, in part, that under certain conditions a stationary mass should repel a relativistic particle. If this is true, Felber, concludes, then shouldn't a relativistic particle repel a stationary mass? According to MIT's Technology Review, the LHC would be the perfect place to test this idea: Felber could "set up a test mass next to the beam line and measure the forces on it as the particles whiz past." The experiment could be run in tandem with the collider's other work -- and who knows? Mankind may soon be on its way to the starts at near-light speeds. Let's just hope we figure this out before the robots take over.How come news can never come out of the Large Hadron Collider that doesn't remind us... more
Police has arrested a 32-yo physicist at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, linking him to an Al Qaeda terrorist group. Just fraking great. As if we didn't have enough with the morons predicting Apocalypse and the thing failing on its own.Police has arrested a 32-yo physicist at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, linking him to... more
I have been waiting for this thing to start since first hearing of it! Last year was a disappointment and now they are going so slow! Next month and hopefully it will go smoothly.I have been waiting for this thing to start since first hearing of it! Last year was... more
On September 4th, 2009, the Telegraph reported that, "A teenage girl agreed to have under-age sex because she wanted to lose her virginity before the Large Hadron Collider caused the end of the world." After extensive research into the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the purpose of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has become clear: these socialist scientists in Europe are perverting the world's youth with their particle accelerators. The LHC's real purpose is to abolish virginity from the face of the planet!On September 4th, 2009, the Telegraph reported that, "A teenage girl agreed to have... more
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC), issuing notices to former interior and foreign affairs secretaries, and legal adviser to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, directed them to submit their affidavits within two weeks. The court took this action on an application by Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s counsel, Barrister Iqbal Jafree. In his application, the counsel submitted the LHC had restrained the federal government from releasing $2 million to the US lawyers to defend Dr Aafia in US courts.LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC), issuing notices to former interior and foreign... more
Lahore High Court on Tuesday asked the federal government to submit its response within 10 days on hiring US lawyers on behalf of Dr Aafia Siddiqui without taking her into confidence, a private TV reported. Barrister Iqbal Ahmed Jafferi pleaded before a single-member bench of LHC comprising of Justice Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry that the government has acquired the services of US lawyers in violation of court’s orders.Lahore High Court on Tuesday asked the federal government to submit its response... more
LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) has reserved its verdict in a petition filed against release of $ 2 million to three American lawyers for defending Dr Aafia Siddiqui in US courts, and taking her case to the International Court of Justice.LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) has reserved its verdict in a petition filed... more
Copyright 2009 by T. Chase.
September 9 2009, 9-9-09, 999, Prophecies of the Book of Revelation and Nostradamus for year 2009. Note that 999 is 666 upside-down, 666 being the number of the Beast, the Antichrist in the Bible's Book of Revelation.
Also discusses Nostradamus and the CERN LHC particle accelerator creating a Black Hole or Strangelet Doomsday. A prophecy of French prophet Nostradamus, 9 44, may predict the CERN Large Hadron Collider LHC proton particle accelerator being built near Geneva on the France Swiss border may produce a black hole or strangelet particle that could swallow earth or cause some other great disaster. RAYPOZ in Century 9 Number 44 may refer to the positive ray of the LHC. Could this be a Doomsday Machine? Could this cause the December 21 2012 Mayan calendar prophecy destruction of earth? Did Nostradamus warn us from 400 years ago about creating a Doomsday Machine with the CERN LHC? The LHC will be turned on again later in 2009, possibly near 9-9-09. If there are a lot of volcanos and earthquakes later in 2010 - 2012 after CERN cranks up the LHC, then it may mean a CERN created Black Hole is eating earth's core, collapsing the earth from within as the core disappears. Nothing can be done then, if a Black Hole has been created and has gone to the center of the earth, which it will do because it is heavier than anything on earth, earth will be on its way to a Black Hole or Strangelet Doomsday within a few years, the earth's crust will crack like an egg shell. This could be the cause of the prophesied December 21 2012 Mayan calendar Doomsday. I know I will be called a "kook" because of this video talking about Nostradamus, but there are respected scientists who are concerned about CERN destroying earth by creating a Black Hole or Strangelet. Read about it, search for articles on search engines by typing "Black Hole Doomsday", tell your friends and family about this.
Also see my video on Nostradamus and the CERN LHC.
This video is from the Revelation13.net web site, for more on this see http://Revelation13.net (Revelation 13: Prophecies of the Future, Astrology, Nostradamus, Bible Prophecy, the King James version English Bible Code).Copyright 2009 by T. Chase.
September 9 2009, 9-9-09, 999, Prophecies of the Book of... more
Video on Bible prophecies and a Prophecy of French Prophet Nostradamus and the CERN LHC particle accelerator creating a Black Hole or Strangelet Doomsday for earth. A prophecy of French prophet Nostradamus, 9 44, may predict the CERN Large Hadron Collider LHC proton particle accelerator being built near Geneva on the France Swiss border may produce a black hole or strangelet particle that could swallow earth or cause some other great disaster. Also Book of Revelation prophecies and other Biblical prophecies on this subject. RAYPOZ in Century 9 Number 44 may refer to the positive ray of the LHC. Could this be a Doomsday Machine? Could this cause the 2012 Mayan calendar destruction of earth? Copyright 2009 by T. Chase. The LHC will be turned on again later in 2009, they are cranking it up now, who knows what will happen then. If there are a lot of volcanos and earthquakes later in 2010 - 2012 after CERN cranks up the LHC, then it may mean a CERN created Black Hole is eating earth's core, collapsing the earth from within as the core disappears. Nothing can be done then, if a Black Hole has been created and has gone to the center of the earth, which it will do because it is heavier than anything on earth, earth will be on its way to a Black Hole or Strangelet Doomsday within a few years, the earth's crust will crack like an egg shell. But science must go forward! This could be the cause of the prophesied December 21 2012 Mayan calendar Doomsday. I know I will be called a "kook" because of this video talking about Nostradamus, but there are respected scientists who are concerned about CERN destroying earth by creating a Black Hole or Strangelet. Read about it, search for articles on search engines by typing "Black Hole Doomsday", tell your friends and family about this. A good web site on the CERN Black Hole hazard: http://misunderstooduniverse.com. This video is from the Revelation13.net web site, for more on this see http://Revelation13.net (Revelation 13: Prophecies of the Future, Astrology, Nostradamus, Bible Prophecy, the King James version English Bible Code).Video on Bible prophecies and a Prophecy of French Prophet Nostradamus and the CERN... more
Video on Bible prophecy and the CERN LHC particle accelerator creating a Black Hole or Strangelet Doomsday for earth.
"The Rapture" of 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, could that be about a Black Hole eating earth?
The CERN Large Hadron Collider LHC proton particle accelerator being built near Geneva on the France Swiss border may produce a black hole or strangelet particle that could swallow earth or cause some other great disaster. Could this be a Doomsday Machine? Also see my other 23 minute video on the LHC and Nostradamus. Copyright 2009 by T. Chase. This video is from the Revelation13.net web site, for more on this see http://Revelation13.net (Revelation 13: Prophecies of the Future, Astrology, Nostradamus, Bible Prophecy, the King James version English Bible Code).Video on Bible prophecy and the CERN LHC particle accelerator creating a Black Hole or... more
The world's most powerful particle smasher will restart in November at just half the energy the machine was designed to reach. But even at this level, the Large Hadron Collider has the potential to uncover exotic new physics, such as signs of hidden extra dimensions, physicists say.
The LHC is a new particle accelerator at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, designed to answer fundamental questions, such as what gives elementary particles their mass, by colliding particles at higher energies than ever achieved in a laboratory before.The world's most powerful particle smasher will restart in November at just half the... more
La macchina per il "Big Bang" ripartirà nel prossimo giugno, dopo lo stop a causa di un malfunzionamento (che è costato 20 milioni di sterline). Gli scienziati sperano di poter riprendere i loro studi e capire come sia nato l'Universo ricreando con l'LHC le condizioni del "Big Bang".La macchina per il "Big Bang" ripartirà nel prossimo giugno, dopo lo stop a causa di... more
