(April 5, 2015 at 12:16 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(April 5, 2015 at 12:14 pm)Alex K Wrote: Nope, just testing - getting the beams up to speed is a matter of minutes or hours (I'll have to check). They have to dump the beams and make new ones all the time during regular operation because the beams lose brightness and focus over time.
It makes me a little bit giddy that I can just ask you questions about the LHC. You rock!
Seconded.
Thanks for the link to CERN displays.
After a little wandering there, I find I have absolutely no idea what I'm looking at.
I'm grateful for whatever linkage you can give between what they're doing and the college math I vaguely remember.
Like, why, with all the money spent on the project, do their graphics look like 1993?
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So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?
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