The HLC successfully smashes particles

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I stayed up long enough this morning to catch some of the live broadcast at CERN. There were a lot of people standing about, anxiously looking at data on monitors, everyone talking and joking–then all at once, it got DEAD SILENT for like, half a minute. Then a loud cheer exploded–the particle beams had successfully been aligned. It was awesome to see history in the making, but unfortunately, it was about 6 am and I was exhausted from doing so much crap earlier, so I had to zonk out. :frowning:
But it was so cool to see that they finally got the sucker working! :smiley:

NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/science/31collider.html

Basic Cliff’s Notes version on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cern

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I read that for this to create a black hole, they’d have to compress 3x the population of Geneva into something the size of a billionth of a thousandth of a millimeter or something.

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Man. Talk about an intense Geneva convention.

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Now they’re going to test it for 1 1/2 years at half power? It’d be hilarious if by the time they do full power it’s around the end of 2012 and something terrible happens.

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LHC.

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Right, they should probably just turn it off during 2012.

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I know, I noticed after I posted >_>;

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It’s good to see the thing working at last. I’ll see if my acquaintance who works at CERN has anything special to say.