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LHC starting up again
April 5, 2015 at 9:49 am
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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!
http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/op-webtoo...p?usr=LHC1
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RE: LHC starting up again
April 5, 2015 at 10:58 am
I saw this on NPR and thought I'd ask you about it.
What exactly is happening in the two months before the beams get to full speed? Is it testing the whole time or does it take that long to get the beams up to speed?
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RE: LHC starting up again
April 5, 2015 at 11:48 am
This is great news! I heard they want to look for "parallel universes" now too. And if they do, that will cause all sorts of problems for religious people. But religionists will make excuses - like they always do, in order to try and dismiss that which they don't like. Good know some people don't simply sit back and say their favoruite deity did it!
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RE: LHC starting up again
April 5, 2015 at 11:57 am
(April 5, 2015 at 11:48 am)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: And if they do, that will cause all sorts of problems for religious people. But religionists will make excuses - like they always do, in order to try and dismiss that which they don't like. Good know some people don't simply sit back and say their favoruite deity did it!
It'll be just like 'evilution.' They'll bend over backwards to poke holes in it. But it'll be easier because even less people will understand what the fuck they're talking about.
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RE: LHC starting up again
April 5, 2015 at 12:03 pm
Here's hoping they find some more things that piss off creatards.
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RE: LHC starting up again
April 5, 2015 at 12:14 pm
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(April 5, 2015 at 10:58 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: I saw this on NPR and thought I'd ask you about it.
What exactly is happening in the two months before the beams get to full speed? Is it testing the whole time or does it take that long to get the beams up to speed?
Nope, just testing - getting the beams up to speed is a matter of minutes (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. If you look at the chart above you'll notice this red saw-like line. That's the luminosity of the beam - you notice it slowly going down and then getting dumped and restarted many times.
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RE: LHC starting up again
April 5, 2015 at 12:16 pm
(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!
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RE: LHC starting up again
April 5, 2015 at 12:19 pm
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Aww shucks.
No, I meant: "That's just what I do..."
p.s. here's an estimate of the LHC beam lifetimes
http://www.lhc-closer.es/1/4/17/0
(April 5, 2015 at 11:48 am)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: This is great news! I heard they want to look for "parallel universes" now too. And if they do, that will cause all sorts of problems for religious people. But religionists will make excuses - like they always do, in order to try and dismiss that which they don't like. Good know some people don't simply sit back and say their favoruite deity did it!
As much as I would like that, claims that we are looking for parallel universes at the LHC sound like hype. Extra dimensions, sure.
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RE: LHC starting up again
April 5, 2015 at 1:15 pm
Awesome. It is the most sophisticated piece of machinery ever built. It is not only from the particle physics that we learn, but the effort to build and use the machine already has given great side effect technical advances.
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RE: LHC starting up again
April 5, 2015 at 1:19 pm
Woot! Woot!
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