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Fixing an electrical failure that shut down the Large Hadron Collider in September is likely to take longer than initial estimates, according to a spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by the French acronym CERN. Repair work to the world's biggest particle collider ma
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Yesterday CERN launched the largest computing grid in the world, which is destined to analyze the data coming from world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. The computing grid consists of more than 140 computer centers from around the world working together to handle the exp
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The world's largest particle collider malfunctioned within hours of its launch to great fanfare, but its operator didn't report the problem for a week. In a statement Thursday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research reported for the first time that a 30-ton transformer that cools part of
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Scientists have hailed a successful switch-on for an enormous experiment which will recreate the conditions a few moments after the Big Bang. The beam completed its first circuit of the underground tunnel at just before 0930 BST. "There it is," project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam complete
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The largest particle accelerator in the world, which will feel its first full proton beams tomorrow, just oozes numerical hyperbole.
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Asked if he would be able to choose whether the LHC or the space programme is more important in advancing our knowledge of the universe, Professor Hawking says that would be like "asking which of my children I would choose to sacrifice". "Both the LHC, and the space program, are vital if the hum
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The eyes of the world are on Geneva, where scientists are expected to throw the switch this week on what may be the biggest experiment ever conducted. It's certainly the most expensive. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, has spent roughly $8 billion digging a 27-kilometer tun
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"Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat." ...Enough said.
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Just a funny little blog post of what the LHC may have to offer, and how it has intrigued the curiosity and imagination of the physicists around it. From the article - As the LHC supposedly gears up, Harvard physicist Kevin Black, based at CERN, investigates rumors that the particle accelerator may
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From his blog, filed under The Fate of Humanity. I'm glad somebody finally wrote something like this.
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