LHC portal

And this; http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnew ... e-mystery/ finally explains why the small spiral is blue, sunlight scattering off tiny saphires.

US/LHC blog. http://www.uslhc.us/ Scientist from US Universities working on the LHC. They mainly work on the Experiments so don't answer too many questions on the collider it self. Interactions http://www.interactions.org/cms/ Particle Physics News and Resources Quantum Diaries http://www.quantumdia...

Very strange natural (? !) phenomenon. the jet stream on saturn is not round but a hexagon.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/ ... n-hexagon/

I eagerly await the explanation!

Found this video simulation of what probably happened .. on twitter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx8i5EfmYU4

I like the Z-pinch Project at Sandia National Labs. http://zpinch.sandia.gov/

Interesting blend between national security, pure physics and fusion power research.

Check the arcs and sparks http://zpinch.sandia.gov/Z/Images/z.jpg

And so there I was looking at the twitter feed and I hear about strange lights in the sky in Norway http://twitter.com/Donna4843/status/6502230910 Then every body was blaming CERN http://twitter.com/#search?q=cern%20spiral Finally story comes out it was Russian booster http://blogs.discovermagazine....

Do you tweet? I'm known as Harbles on twitter. http://twitter.com/Harbles please explore my lists. http://twitter.com/Harbles/lists And I used to think it was all about Brittany Spears fans freaking out however I have come to appreciate it's usefulness. One has access to millions of peoples attentio...

Well ... as R. Regan used to say... It's a Sun not a planet. A star if you will Wiki describes it well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun Surface temp 5,510 °C, you'd be a puff of smoke in an instant, Surface gravity 27.94 g you'd be crushed as well if there was a solid surface to crush your smoke upo...

Yeah that is neat. I guess the super lightning bolts act as a linac and anti particle are found in the debris of the resulting high energy collisions. I believe this is related.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/ ... sprite.htm

Yes I'm looking forward to that.
http://ams-02project.jsc.nasa.gov/
I'm glad they added it back on the manifest.

This is my Starship LHC screen.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aeold ... Nmcy&hl=en
I'd like to save the setup so I don't have to rebuild it every time. Any thoughts?

Cool Ralf!
Also some one added an LHC Portal link on the Commissioning Home page. Very Cool!
http://lhc-commissioning.web.cern.ch/lhc-commissioning/

I don't have the theoretical chops to compose a meaningful answer so I leave it up to the experts, like this guy. http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/01/lhc-b ... conds.html
Or if you prefer a video ... http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1120625

Don't worry, be happy!

The beam lines for the two beams always intersect at the 4 points where experiments are located. The CCC makes collisions happen when they adjust the RF system to get the beam bunches to be at the IP at the same. There are more systems that have not yet been brought online to compress the bunches so...

Did you mean start an LHC Portal Wiki or link into wikipedia? If the former look at this, http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Wiki And even Wikipedia has some info. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki I kinda think it's duplicating efforts to copy the info here from cern or wherever, maybe just continuing ...