insane_alien Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Hmmm.... funny, but when I look into my mirror now, I see 11 of me. Bee stop throwing stuff at your mirror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royston Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Blog entry from Ethan Siegel on those notorious micro black holes... http://startswithabang.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch2008 Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 To avoid confusion, here’s the link to my post #21 in this thread: http://www.interactions.org/quantumuniverse/qu/questions/sb_equations.html I thought that putting it in quotes was pretty clearly not attempted plagiarism, but I have been admonished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 1.21 gigawatts???? No, about a tenth of that. http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/faq/lhc-energy-consumption.htm I'm still glad I don't have to pay the electricity bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Yesterday a friend of mine told me about a dream he had which he feels may be prophetic on this matter - He was in Dover (SE England) and as he looked across the channel , he saw the whole coastline of France ablaze in violent firestorms. Maybe the experiment will turn out OK after all then! Personally I think it was his subconsious doing some wishful thinking. Hmmm.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/11/channel.tunnel.fire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Oh no, not HIM. I still have nightmares about what happened last time he got near a big physics experiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 any news on the lhc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilded Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 any news on the lhc? Hacking mostly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 cern staff announce it's broken again Incident in LHC sector 34 Geneva, 20 September 2008. During commissioning (without beam) of the final LHC sector (sector 34) at high current for operation at 5 TeV, an incident occurred at mid-day on Friday 19 September resulting in a large helium leak into the tunnel. http://public.web.cern.ch/public/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 http://public.web.cern.ch/public/ LHC re-start scheduled for 2009 Geneva, 23 September 2008. Investigations at CERN following a large helium leak into sector 3-4 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel have indicated that the most likely cause of the incident was a faulty electrical connection between two of the accelerator’s magnets. Before a full understanding of the incident can be established, however, the sector has to be brought to room temperature and the magnets involved opened up for inspection. This will take three to four weeks. Full details of this investigation will be made available once it is complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch2008 Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 http://cosmicvariance.com/2007/03/31/lhc-magnet-test-failure/ Apparently, something like this happened over a year ago in a test. If the magnets don’t remain supercooled during operation, then the immense electrical charge passing through suddenly meets resistance. The magnets overheat as a “quench” happens, with catastrophic effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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