The world’s largest particle collider is back in business. The Large Hadron Collider broke down last fall. It has taken a year to repair, but this month it began smashing again at record energies. Scientists at CERN, Europe’s particle physics lab, are eagerly preparing for a new era in the field.
It’s the middle of the [...]
After becoming the world’s highest energy particle accelerator, the LHC is now making progress in commissioning stable beams and providing more collisions at the four points for several hours at a time. For the first time, beams have circulated with more than one bunch of protons, thus increasing the intensity.
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CHIEF Justice Sayed Zahid Hussain of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday held that the government could not acquire a piece of land purchased through remittances by a foreign or Pakistani investor whether the acquisition is for public purpose or not.
The CJ has observed that under the Protection of Economic Reforms Act 1992, the government [...]
The latest version of the SETI radio show Are We Alone has a segment with Seth Shostak and me talking about the Large Hadron Collider (it’s part of our regular feature, Brains On Vacation).
Here’s the MP3 .
Five webcasts will be available on 30 March, starting from 8:30am (Central European Summer Time – CEST). The main webcast will include live footage from the control rooms for the LHC accelerator and all four LHC experiments and coverage of the press conference after the first collisions are announced. Webcasts will also be available from [...]
09:37 PST: Like many of my colleagues, I’ve been eagerly awaiting word that the LHC has successfully threaded the proton beam around the whole ring. In recent days they have gotten it half way around the 27 km circumference, and within hours, they should be able to circulate it and I assume “capture” it with [...]
A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.
Mr Cole was seized by Swiss police after CERN security guards [...]
I came across a bizarre paper recently suggesting that the LHC might be shut down. Not because of the funding cuts that have been threatening particle physics projects around the world, nor because of law suits accusing the LHC of threatening life on Earth. (Not even because we at the LHC have recently been accused [...]
Been having a tough time figuring out just what CERN’s Large Hadron Collider does? Worried that it will create a Möbius strip (a rip in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop)? Just love to jam? Watch this CERN-sponsored rap after the break, and have your universe totally destroyed. Er, but not for [...]
