Originally posted by this_is_who_we_are
Bump for Higgs Boson announcement.
Bump for the following fun fact -- in the CERN cafeteria, there are large beam monitors (screens), which say "time to beam: 2 years". LOL. It's
typically in the hour range.
So yes, it's the long shutdown. The announcement, frankly, was to (rightly) emphasize that a good chunk of work has been done.