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RE: LHC starting up again
April 6, 2015 at 9:38 pm
That knob can be turnt up to 11 to discover the eye of Anusius.
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RE: LHC starting up again
April 6, 2015 at 9:54 pm
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(April 5, 2015 at 9:49 am)Alex K Wrote: Finally, after two years of upgrades, and a glitch two weeks ago which was just fixed, the LHC is running again. It is now hopefully equipped and ready to handle collision energies of 13 TeV as opposed to 8 TeV as before. If all goes according to plan, we should see actual collisions at maximum energy in two months or so!
Their clock seems to be off or is this time delayed in case something happens and it will not be live.
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RE: LHC starting up again
April 7, 2015 at 8:11 am
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Superconducting Super Collider was cancelled in tightening budgetary environment of early post Cold War recession essentially to protect funding for NASA's international space station. It wasn't publically so stated at the time, but I understand that was the behind the scene trade off. ISS was judged essential for survival of NASA, because Cold War military funding shell game had left NASA essentially a one trick pony. That trick - the space shuttle - and by extension the pony, can only be justified if it served a crewed space station.
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RE: LHC starting up again
April 7, 2015 at 2:16 pm
It's a sad world we live in in which the idea of scientific progress via space exploration is considered a one-trick pony in the eyes of our national leaders.
Fuck it. It's just plain simply a sad world.
