LHC is back online !

[Aury]

Ummmmmm.... that would be horribly inefficient.

[Song]

Ummmmmm.... that would be horribly inefficient.

They're the same people who brought us all the "Somethings happneing/not happening/stopping/whatever! Drill a hole in it and/or nuke it, if possible by having a bunch of idiots on a spaceship/submarine/plane/drilling rig/thing, someof whom die!" films. A nuclear bomb made of antimatter is RIGHT up their alley.

[Aury]

I felt a disturbance in the data...
Thousands of voices shouting out in pain... as if... another Hollywood director has blatantly violated suspension of disbelief for anyone with even the slightest background in science.

[Song]

Looking on the bright side, it gives us so many bad movies to laugh at.

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Cern’s LHC smashes lead ions in Big Bang simulation

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has successfully made the transition to collisions using lead ions, instead of lighter protons, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, Cern, announced 8 November. The collision of the much heavier lead ion particles resulted in temperatures a million times hotter than those at the centre of the sun, and tiny quantities of matter called quark-gluon plasma which is believed to have existed micro-moments after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.

http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/08/ ... imulation/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/larg ... -ions.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11711228

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btw, did you know that the cosmic radiowave background is anisotropic ? Ok this was already known, what is new is that this anisotropy is not random and irregular, but it has a very precise symmetry! scientist have been plotting the CMB map in a plane until now, when a couple of them (Dr Max Tegmark, of the University of Pennsylvania, US) decided to plot the map in a sphere! In the astounding image you can clearly see quadrupole and octupole symmetries!
all thanks to the WMAP satellite, Plank will give us even a better image, but later (2012 probably)

However with the partial data, a paper has been published on arΧiv supporting Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC)

Gurzadyan VG; Penrose R (2010-11-16). "Concentric circles in WMAP data may provide evidence of violent pre-Big-Bang activity". arΧiv:1011.3706 [astro-ph.CO].

More to read if interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_Cyclic_Cosmology
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11837869
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2814947.stm
http://telescoper.wordpress.com/categor ... anomalies/

[Ttech]

I know the the LHC is a big machine that is nicked name Halo, it is a big ring in the ground and it does something cool. Many people put their heads in the sand to make this possible. The invention of the LHC made possible many things including, black-hole shelters, radiation proof food, and a new form of life found in Uncle Tom's fridge.

[Song]

Ttech<--We want it to make a hole in the universe and threaten earth, because then the Doctor will turn up. Shhh. <_<

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where is the HIGGS boson ?!?!?
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre78445c-us-higgs/

Month-end target mooted for finding "no Higgs"

By Robert EvansPosted 2011/09/05 at 5:40 pm EDT

GENEVA, Sep. 5, 2011 (Reuters) — U.S.-based physicists said on Monday they hope to have enough data by the end of this month to establish if the elusive Higgs boson, a particle thought to have made the universe possible, exists in its long-predicted form.

If the answer is no, scientists around the globe will have to rethink the 40-year-old Standard Model of particle physics which describes how they believe the cosmos works.

The physicists, at the Fermilab research center near Chicago which operates the Tevatron collider, have been in friendly competition with colleagues at CERN near Geneva whose giant LHC machine is also seeking the Higgs.

In an e-mail to Reuters in Geneva, Fermilab communications director Katie Yurkewicz said Tevatron was on track to have by September 30 the information "to rule out the existence of a Higgs boson with a mass within the most likely range."

Both Tevatron, operating for the past 28 years, and CERN's Large Hadron Collider, started up on March 30 2010, have been trying to find the boson -- postulated as the particle that gave mass to matter after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago -- within that range.

If it is not there, scientists say, then the multi-national research teams at both centres will have to start looking in the data gathered and more to come for something else -- a different sort of Higgs or some other particle.

But if it is somewhere there, Yurkewicz and her Fermilab colleague Robert Roser say, the Tevatron would not have enough data to confirm its existence before September 30 -- when the U.S. collider, denied necessary funds, closes down for good.

MULTIPLE SIGHTINGS NEEDED

Scientists at both centres say there will have to be multiple sightings of the Higgs -- each of which will have to be minutely scrutinized to ensure they are what they appear to be -- before a discovery can be announced.

Reaching the conclusion that it is not where it should be is much easier.

In the two machines -- the LHC oval-shaped and the Tevatron circular but smaller -- particles are smashed together at near the speed of light, recreating the primal chaos of flying matter a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

The result of those collisions -- and there have been trillions of them -- are recorded on computer disc and studied by scientists around the world for any trace of the Higgs, a key element of the Standard Model, and of any new phenomena.

Scientists at CERN, formally the European Organization for Nuclear Research, have themselves been gathering data from collisions at an ever-growing rate but have yet to spot more than a fleeting hint that it might exist.

"The Higgs boson has been rather elusive so far and no-one really knows what it will look like," wrote CERN scientist Paulime Gagnon in her blog on Monday.

"But if it exists, and if it is the one predicted by the Standard Model, then we know how to set traps to catch some."

CERN's director-general Rolf Heuer has said he expects proof one way or another to emerge in 2012, at the end of which the $10 billion LHC will shut down for a year to be prepared for collisions at twice the present force.

But some CERN researchers have suggested that the vast amount of data they are collecting could allow them to come to at least a preliminary conclusion -- Higgs or no Higgs -- by the end of this year.

(Reported by Robert Evans; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

If the Higgs is nowhere to be found, standard model is not valid and must be revised. Hurrah! more work for scientist and theoretical physicists !
And Stephen Hawking probably won the bet !
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/ne ... 598686.stm

[Ttech]

I think the LHC was just a front to produce a massive machine to cook bigger pizzas...


But seriously, what a sad day for a collider designed to find the higgs.

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But seriously, what a sad day for a collider designed to find the higgs.

That's not so bad, at the moment the LHC is running at half the energy (around 7 TeV collisions)
In the future it will be shut down for a year to be prepared for the full 14 TeV collisions (around 2014) so there is a lot of more experiments that can be done on that machine to find new physics, since the Higgs cannot be found in the energy range predicted by the Standard Model.

[Ttech]

But seriously, what a sad day for a collider designed to find the higgs.

That's not so bad, at the moment the LHC is running at half the energy (around 7 TeV collisions)
In the future it will be shut down for a year to be prepared for the full 14 TeV collisions (around 2014) so there is a lot of more experiments that can be done on that machine to find new physics, since the Higgs cannot be found in the energy range predicted by the Standard Model.

I am waiting for it to rip a hole in the universe and send me to another universe.