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Hi Tim,

Welcome to our little group. Sounds like you have much the same interests as I do. While I find the physics fascinating (if a little mind boggling), I'm more interested in the awesome machine itself.

Wow, thanks for the really comprehensive report with fantastic detail. I love these sorts of little detail and the amazing detective work that goes into working out what's going on.

Do you know what criteria they use for calling themselves "The world's most-powerful accelerator" ?

Thanks for keeping us all updated. I think I shall be having Page 1 and the LHC Announcer open on my work PC today

Thank you !

People must be told !!

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-10-25

Seems a good thing to use to test the new forum feature

Thanks. I'll give it a try

Pardon my flippant comment about tin foil hats, just an attempt at humour, earthquakes are not trivial, I've been in some small ones and can only imagine what a larger one would be like. Earthquakes are something I studied at university, not admittedly a major part of my studies but I have considera...

Well my butt still seems to be here so I think we're good.

I'm glad that's the sort of IT outage I don't have to worry about planning for in the UK. On the other hand I fear your concern over 'the big one' being 'way overdue' is moving you a little closer to the tin foil hat brigade

Hardly understood a word of that, clearly my IT knowledge is no longer state of the art

But thanks and well done

Ivan ! It is good to know you are well and getting on with life. Best wishes for the future.

For 2016, they're hoping to accumulate ~25fb. But suppose instead they only manage ~15fb and ~80fb for 2016-2018. Will they extend the run for another year, say, or just accept what data has been accumulated? Regards, Jmc At a guess I'd say that's far too speculative a question to get an answer to ...

Why is it taking so darned long to get to the maximum intensity? With 900 bunches as currently, that's only about 25% of the max possible. Put another way, each physics run could return four times more data at max intensity. So what's the hold up? I believe they are slowly building up to full inten...