You are using thousand if not millions of these to post that message:
Thats only 50 years
[edit on 21-8-2008 by sn00daard]
Originally posted by johnsky
COOLED down? To 270˚ Celsius?!
Exactly how hot was it naturally, while turned off, before they started COOLING?
Don't they mean HEATED up to?
I get the feeling whoever wrote the article must have been an American, because they clearly don't have a grasp of the metric system yet.
I get the feeling whoever wrote the article must have been an American, because they clearly don't have a grasp of the metric system yet.
To the American readers still using imperial measurements, they're saying they cooled the thing down to 518˚ Fahrenheit before turning it on.
As such preparations for the formal September 10th start date continue, the entire machine has been successfully cooled to temperatures below minus 270ºC, a fraction of a degree above the lowest achievable temperature.
In this temperature range, helium becomes a liquid, and is used to cool the superconducting magnets which keep the proton beams circulating at almost the speed of light as well as making the LHC the biggest refrigerator on the planet.
Originally posted by Havalon
the LHC is due to commence full operation in 2010 so there is a conundrum! has the future already been!