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Scientists had said they expected the £3.6bn ($5.4bn) machine to be repaired by November, but then pushed the date back to June, before the latest delay.
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) said: "The new schedule foresees first beams in the LHC at the end of September this year, with collisions following in late October."
~ www.popsci.com...
..........The collider was first switched on last September and just nine days later, was turned off due to a leak in its liquid-helium plumbing. To make up for missed time, CERN announced it will be running the LHC through the winter. Usually atom-smashers hibernate during the winter, avoiding the peak electricity rates and allowing for maintenance, but the LHC will have only a brief respite: Christmas vacation.
The two month delay in restarting the machine will give engineers time to install warning and protection systems, in hopes of preventing another premature shutdown. The system will include pressure-release valves to stop wide-spread damage should another rupture occur and an early turn-off system that would detect problems and shutdown the machine before major damage could be done.
Originally posted by mattifikation
The information revealed by this machine could one day lead to new medical technology, new ways to generate energy, and so-on. In fact, everything that can be improved by science could be improved because of the discoveries this machine is likely to yield.
This machine is the future of science, and by extension is the future of humanity. It's not only worth the financial investment, it's worth the (imagined) "risk" involved with turning it on.
Originally posted by Cauch1
Does anyone else think it suspicious that just as the LHC is about to start working again it needs more work, again.
And the number of modifications needed before it comes back online keeps increasing.
And the cost keeps getting greater.
And the news articles keep getting smaller.
I have provided a link to an earlier thread on a previous "malfunction" below if you wish to do some extra reading.
LHC Malfunction
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Originally posted by Teknikal
Everyone who seems to think this machine will throw us into a sci fi world has their head in the clouds....
...to suddenly make claims like it's going to take us to space and completely insanely it will give us medicinal advances surely you can't really believe that.
TextThe organization attributed the delay to the installation of a new protection system for the giant magnets that help push charged particles through the collider to high speeds and energies...
TextCERN's new German director signalled in an interview late January that he would be more cautious than his French predecessor, with the relaunch having been repeatedly put back since the vast scientific experiment was launched amid worldwide fanfare last year.........Heuer has said that he does not want to push for a full energy beam until 2010 at the earliest
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
IMO they're working with new techonology on a scale that has been rarely seen as far as a science project, so we can exepct alot of delays and recalibrations.
People have to realize that this is ground breaking equipment doing ground breaking research, it's gonna take some time get everything the way it should be.
I'm happy they're not turning it on premature, god knows what that would do.
~Keeper
Originally posted by ahnggk
Creating a blackhole is pretty damn straighforward. Nothing very special, it's simply concentrating massive amounts of energy in a stupendously small volume of space... To create unimaginable energy densities and since energy > mass is interchangeable, you got yourself a BH!
It's the "something else" you can possibly do with it and sadly, we'll never know about that.