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Originally Posted by sassydr8n
Found this very interesting article - thinking intervention?? especially as "[m]any of the magnets meant to whiz high-energy subatomic particles around a 17-mile underground racetrack have mysteriously lost their ability to operate at high energies".
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/sc...e.html?_r=1&em |
Hi sassydr8n - I'm not a member at NYT, but I did find this short overview. (The full article was also at the Honolulu Star Phoenix, but my browser crashed again while I was reading it. I'm afraid to try it again right now LOL). Intervention? That would be FANTASTIC!! Oops, did I say that out loud? People were
suggesting it here about the helium leak damage last autumn too. Who knows. Thank you for the update.
By DENNIS OVERBYE - Published: August 3, 2009
http://www.democraticunderground.com...ress=228x54788
The biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections.
Many of the magnets meant to whiz high-energy subatomic particles around a 17-mile underground racetrack have mysteriously lost their ability to operate at high energies.
Some physicists are deserting the European project, at least temporarily, to work at a smaller, rival machine across the ocean.
After 15 years and $9 billion, and a showy “switch-on” ceremony last September, the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator outside Geneva, has to yet collide any particles at all.