Dudes from the future! If we're about to annihilate ourselves, next monday would be a good time to stop us... (Come to think of it, if the LHC does indeed destroy us, who's trying to stop us from the future? The surviving roaches? But why would they do that? Seems to me it benefits them? There has to be some more nefarious plot at work here...)
CERN announced that on March 30 they will attempt to circulate beams in the Large Hadron Collider at 3.5 TeV, the highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator. A live webcast will be shown of the event, and will include live footage from the control rooms for the LHC accelerator and all four LHC experiment, as well as a press conference after the first collisions are announced.
“With two beams at 3.5 TeV, we’re on the verge of launching the LHC physics program,” said CERN’s Director for Accelerators and Technology, Steve Myers. “But we’ve still got a lot of work to do before collisions. Just lining the beams up is a challenge in itself: it’s a bit like firing needles across the Atlantic and getting them to collide half way.”
Nancy Atkinson @'UniverseToday'
Meanwhile, here's some light music to entertain. Alpine Kat, and her Large Hadron Rap comes from the very heart of the LHC, since in her day job, she's Katherine McAlpine, journalist and webmaster for the Atlas experiment.
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