The $6 billion LHC Circus

[longcircuit]

Does anyone want to second my nomination of edcrater as Limerick Laureate of the Electric Universe? ("Electric Uni-verse"—get it? Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week.)

longcircuit

[StefanR]

More verses, anyone? Here's a start:

There was a young lady from CERN
Whose bosons were splendidly firm

But by inflation she got hit
And she was left without a bit
So she started a religion 'round Herne

[Birkeland]

Taking the 'Large' out of Large Hadron Collider

Berkeley, August 9, 2010

Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN are the big rock stars of high-energy physics—really big. The LHC cost nearly USD$10 billion to build and its largest particle racetrack (27 km in circumference) stretches across a national border. However, a recent breakthrough in computer modeling may help hasten the day when accelerators thousands of times more powerful can be built in a fraction of the space—and for significantly less money. Researchers computing at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center have sped up by a factor of hundreds the modeling, and thus the design of experimental laser wakefield accelerators. Laser wakefield acceleration works by shooting powerful laser pulses through a cloud of ionized gas (plasma). The pulse creates a wave (or wake) on which introduced electrons "surf," much as human surfers ride ocean waves. Using this method, researchers have demonstrated acceleration gradients 1,000 times greater than conventional methods.

Wakefield accelerators: Plasma models get a boost

[JaJa]

I thought the physics preprint archive was for science?

Time machine at the LHC

http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2696

[Goldminer]

You kill me Jaja. I think you are capable of outperforming them in their stories. It should be easy for you to be more outrageous than the link posted! You might even land a grant! Be even better if you could be granted a land grant. Then you could have your own collider. Or build bleachers, charge admission and hold jalopy derbies.

[JaJa]

You kill me Jaja. I think you are capable of outperforming them in their stories.

Are you inferring that i'm a good story-teller Goldminer

[Goldminer]

Let's just say you are bad in a good sort of way, or visa versa.

[JaJa]

Let's just say you are bad in a good sort of way, or visa versa.

Why thank you.

I bet the mathematical physicist responsible for this brain fart was called Dr Who

I know. Bad joke

[Goldminer]

I bet the mathematical physicist responsible for this brain fart was called Dr Who

I know. Bad joke :

Or maybe he was Dr Whooom!
I know, even worse bad joke!

[candicet44]

Taking the 'Large' out of Large Hadron Collider

Berkeley, August 9, 2010

Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN are the big rock stars of high-energy physics—really big. The LHC cost nearly USD$10 billion to build and its largest particle racetrack (27 km in circumference) stretches across a national border. However, a recent breakthrough in computer modeling may help hasten the day when accelerators thousands of times more powerful can be built in a fraction of the space—and for significantly less money. Researchers computing at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center have sped up by a factor of hundreds the modeling, and thus the design of experimental laser wakefield accelerators. Laser wakefield acceleration works by shooting powerful laser pulses through a cloud of ionized gas (plasma). The pulse creates a wave (or wake) on which introduced electrons "surf," much as human surfers ride ocean waves. Using this method, researchers have demonstrated acceleration gradients 1,000 times greater than conventional methods.

Wakefield accelerators: Plasma models get a boost

I saw on local tv satellite that CERN scientists expect the project to expose some of the mysteries of the cosmos...for $10 billion I hope they uncover something.

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[Goldminer]

I think the money spent building the Great Pyramid was a better investment. It has remained in place for thousands of years, and no one laughs at it. The LHC will probably be dismantled and its resources reclaimed by some insider with connections. The story should be chiseled in stone, so that future generations will understand the folly. Maybe placed inside the great pyramid for safe keeping!

[KeepitRealMark]

I am sure that in our lifetimes we will see the LHC dismantled and sold for scrap metal.
They will use the tunnel as a unique location for some expensive Condominiums.
What else would it be good for?
Possibly converted into a Trill Ride at a high tech Theme Park?

[JaJa]

Particles That Flock: Strange Synchronization Behavior at the Large Hadron Collider

In its first six months of operation, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva has yet to find the Higgs boson, solve the mystery of dark matter or discover hidden dimensions of spacetime. It has, however, uncovered a tantalizing puzzle, one that scientists will take up again when the collider restarts in February following a holiday break. Last summer physicists noticed that some of the particles created by their proton collisions appeared to be synchronizing their flight paths, like flocks of birds. The findings were so bizarre that “we’ve spent all the time since [then] convincing ourselves that what we were see ing was real,” says Guido Tonelli, a spokesperson for CMS, one of two general-purpose experiments at the LHC

How long do you think it will before before someone suggests an accelerator that circles the globe.

"Captain... the Colliders engines canna take much more of this... we need warp drive"

[Jarvamundo]

How long do you think it will before before someone suggests an accelerator that circles the globe.

Like a Birkeland current?

[Goldminer]

How long do you think it will before before someone suggests an accelerator that circles the globe.

You just did! How about one around the equator, and another around pole to pole? When those fail, let's build between the orbits of Earth and Mars! At some point they'll have to admit that the "particles" are waves.