[NEWS] CERN LHC TEST Today!!!!

[Yaka]

the crafty and perhaps crazy nuts @ CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research are all set to test the LHC for the first time today perhaps spawning deamons, giants black holes and what not. best to have crow bar handy in any case. stream should be on at Live webcast at some point startup time is any where between 9:00am till 18:00pm swiss time which is 2 hours ahead of us

[bob269]

Aye the end of the world tis upon us.

So has anybody any regrets or last request?

[TdC]

I'll have a foot massage please Bob.

[Amelyn]

This vid explains what they are doing..

YouTube - Animation of 'The Bottle to Bang' by Chris Mann

[Thadius]

First test has been a success apparently!

[Nate]

It's happened already? Wheres the headcrabs..

[tris-]

were actually in a paralel dimension RIGHT NOW.

[Mophead]

Terrible news: Gordon Freeman spotted near Large Hadron Collider - Joystiq

[throdgrain]

Orgone Accumulator

[krilly]

The Sun and The Mail keep saying "We are all going to die!!!!"

Judging by the the typical stuff "journalists" print as "news" at said papers, I think we are all pretty safe.

especially considering they don't cross the beams for another 3 weeks or so.

[Dukat]

Originally Posted by tris-

were actually in a paralel dimension RIGHT NOW.

WAIT WAIT WAIT

I think I got sent to the wrong bloody one; the dimension I'm in seems to be perpendicular

[bob269]

Originally Posted by tris-

were actually in a paralel dimension RIGHT NOW.

I thought FH was always in a parallel dimension ?

[Cadelin]

The LHC got damaged.

This email was also sent out to all CERN staff:

Incident in LHC sector 34

Dear Colleagues,
During commissioning (without beam) of the final LHC sector (sector 34) at high current for operation at 5 TeV, an incident occurred at mid-day on Friday 19 September resulting in a large helium leak into the tunnel. Preliminary investigations indicate that the most likely cause of the problem was a faulty electrical connection between two magnets which probably melted at high current leading to mechanical failure. CERN's strict safety regulations ensured that at no time was there any risk to people.

A full investigation is underway, but it is already clear that the sector will have to be warmed up for repairs to take place. This implies a minimum of two months down time for the LHC operation. For the same fault, not uncommon in a normally conducting machine, the repair time would be a matter of days.

Further details will be made available as soon as they are known.

[Overdriven]

Cade: