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Meanwhile back at the CCC the cryo board is all green for the first time since the break.
http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/op-webto ... p?usr=LHC2
http://hcc.web.cern.ch/hcc/file/cmm.png
Soon Mwahaha.

The 10 TeV collisions are likely to happen by June. I think this is highly unlikely. The risk is likely too high for them to do this without a longer shutdown. http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=2&sessionId=0&resId=1&materialId=slides&confId=67839 "The current knowledge of the interc...

However we should fund more research into finding ways to detect and divert asteroids that are a threat to collide.
http://www.space.com/news/060628_neo_workshop.html

I like Arcs and Sparks.

http://www.plasma-universe.com/Z_machine

Skepticly reformed Pastafarian.

And You?

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2 ... ernet.html
I thought this was an interesting item.

BTW this is how I was notified of the existence of this 'knowledge' .

http://twitter.com/garrettlisi/status/7776373847

The flying spaghetti monster works in mysterious ways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

Presented for your amusement as they used to say on the Twilight Zone.

http://pearlsofwar.blogspot.com/2010/01 ... death.html

And per latest update on the Hardware commissioning page [url]http://hcc.web.cern.ch/HCC//url] " The LHC is being prepared for operations at 3.5 TeV: nQPS cables refurbishment to be performed on all sectors. Currently ongoing in sector 81 Commissioning of nQPS will be done in the 7 sectors where it ...

Curious Dave wrote:Well, I hope this dosen't appear negative, but didn't they have a year to do this while the last repair was being made?

I believe the term "Dung Occurs" applies here.

They make a plan. Stuff happens. They make another plan. Rinse and repeat.

If it was easy everybody would be doing it.

I am a new user from NJ - a couple years of engineering physics at Rutgers -never completed but a quater century of prototyping power electronics and radar with RCA which got bought out by GE, Martiin Marietta, and now Lockheed Martin. At one point they just gave us labels to overwrite our badges. ...

Are they going to do the high energy collisions in February? That's really soon. The machine commissioning to 3.5TeV/beam starts mid feb. See the LHC-Commissioning page http://lhc-commissioning.web.cern.ch/lhc-commissioning/ for updates. Pilot Physics appears to be expected http://lhc-commissioning...

It's ok. They were on Xmas break and just got back to work on Wednesday. They have some work to do on the machine for a few weeks yet and we should see the temps coming back down around the beginning of Feb. for a projected continuation of commissioning in mid Feb. They don't have enough storage for...

ORION111 wrote:50 million million (50,000,000,000,000) solar electron neutrinos pass through the human body every second.

A 2010 Schedule draft has been posted on the LHC commissioning site. http://lhc-commissioning.web.cern.ch/lhc-commissioning/planning/2010/2010-LHC-schedule_v1.3.pdf Also this Video " Interview with Sergio Bertolucci, Director for Research and Computing, December 18th 2009 " http://cdsweb.cern.ch/rec...