Large Hadron Collider grinds to a halt... again
By Laura June 
posted December 2nd 2009 1:55PM
posted December 2nd 2009 1:55PM
posted December 2nd 2009 1:55PM
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Not it's website !
@(Unverified)
its*
This is it !
A sign that time traveler are coming back to stop this thing from working and change the course of history !
@(Unverified)
Yep The first time through us into a time loop, we are now looping through time without knowing it. Except the people at CERN
@(Unverified) Yes from the year 10891 to prevent the ALIEN GRAY INVASION, where there are 3 current time-lines (Alternate future evolution of humans - greys, our present, and our human evolution of Homo Novus) all functions through meta time where eventually all time will be stitched together into one significant time-line, thus our descendants of the future are preventing the alternate evolution possessed by shadows (Anti-psychons) to invade and introduce their hybrids (human/grey) to make us evolve into them!
@(Unverified)
Clearly the time travelers haven't seen Terminator. Why send back one measly agent when you can send back dozens and kill of all the scientists who built this before they were born?
@(Unverified)
Next time they should really test the theory ,
simply use the link below which will generate true 6 number (each from 0 to 99) if the number sequence read : 4 8 15 16 23 42 they stop the experiment , if any other sequence appear the carry on with experiment, see if the theory is correct; the Higgs boson will generate this sequence out of trillion possible sequence to stop the experiment from ever happening.
http://www.random.org/integers/?num=6&min=0&max=99&col=6&base=10&format=html&rnd=new
@Ahmed Alzayani
So does that higgs boson time theory theorize some complex intelligence to some particle (as all the a bit too religious?) people here go with, or do they simply mean it causes a causality loop annihilating itself in the past?
Because the last possibility can claim some minor scientific basis, and the first is loony bin material.
Its trying to tell us something.
@Hammersmith
telling us it is not safe to use?
Guess I get to live for one more day.
JUST KIDDING PEOPLE!
@(Unverified)
So you're not going to live one more day? My condolences.
Well isn't that unexpected.
*yawn* -_____-
We're all gonna die!
@CJ100570
Not yet!!!
wow i cant say im surprised but hey at lest the damage isnt permanent
@monkeyontherun4
They gotta be some technologically advanced gremlins if they're messing with THIS thing...
When asked about if she is intentionally interfering the the collider, trying to stop the Higgs boson particle from re-appearing in our timeline, Nature said in a voice imitating Sergeant schultz from Hogan's Heroes: "I know nussing...
@ronin691 i ranked you low because of your photo
And I ranked you low for being an idiot.
Oh, and for also ranking him low.
That is one lazy Hadron Collider!
@glamajamma
Its become a Small Flaccid Collider now...
Its not being lazy, it just has a dysfunctional collider.
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
NOPE.
@JKhyperBOY
Thanks for parroting a blockhead's site.
@JKhyperBOY
I found this the page's source code :
@JKhyperBOY
Oops, my first reply didn't work.
I found this in the pages source code : "if the lhc actually destroys the earth & this page isn't yet updated
please email mike@frantic.org to receive a full refund"
No long term damage except that Jerry left his stupid popcorn in the microwave and when the power came back on of course it burned and now the stink is ALL OVER THE LAB!!!...
Sheesh!
What , no generator backup? LOL.
@relanusa
did you read
@relanusa Yeah, except for the part where the post said that it's "currently operating on limited power from a backup supply".
"Ha Ha"
---Higgs Boson
@(Unverified)
....in the voice of Nelson i assume....
The end of the world will happen when the LHC decides to break again in the middle of a critical experiment...
you spend 20 years building it and forget to upgrade the power lines feeding this thing.
@antriver
down ranked and flagged for shameless self promotion
The black holes are so dangerous that they possess the ability to consume cyberspace.
black hole ate the power lines!
whatever....i just hope its back soon...i wanna know the outcome of those experiments.....i know i know...it might be another decade by the time we get any results...sigh!
Cmon guys, the magnets are not affected by power failures because they are in superconductive state. In order for the magnets to shutdown they must be heated like it happened the previous time because of liquid nitrogen leakage.
They have to constantly be topped up with refrigerant to stay cool, and that requires pumps, that need power.
@Wwhat Not really, all these magnets need to be filled up after some weeks but certainly not constantly.
@gbil
What happens when you turn off the power to your fridge? the ice melts right? There isn't a lot of insulation so if there is a power failure it will start to heat up pretty quickly. If the back up generators hadn't kicked in, they woulda been in trouble. The superconductors are kept at only a couple degrees about absolute zero.
@JS It is obvious that you don't know what superconductive means and although it might be surprising to you, no they don't use the same system your fridge uses. The only way for a superconductive magnet to lose its magnetic field is to lose its coolant which happens over time - some weeks - and thus it has to be refilled every now and then.
@JS
Your fridge isn't vacuum insulated and LH2 cooled. With no resistance via superconductity, the only heat source is parasitic ingress from the support structure and heat transferred via emmitance.
There will always be some movement of molecules/atoms, and they will bounce and so create heat, and the decay of atoms, and quantum effects, so your list wasn't complete.
And a vacuum is nice as insulator but the structure that holds the vacuum must have some fastening since the container doesn't magically float, and even if you use magnetism to suspend a container around it (assuming the object was round and had nothing connecting it) you'd get eddies in the outer layer, but obviously it is connected to the ring and the data cables, so it will be connected at the edge, so the insulation isn't that perfect as you suggest.
But sure it might take a while.
I'm predicting it will continue to have intermittent problems until late in 2012 when it will finally "work".
@Wowzers lol i had the exact same theory. it fits perfectly!
@Wowzers and by theory i mean "theory"
@Wowzers Kind of like Congress.
Hmmm!
You guys wont believe this, but I was peeing on the third rail at exactly that time. When exactly is this thing coming back online?
ok Mr. PhD scientist.... I can imagine what REALLY happened:
walks in with cup of coffee.
start up the program.
(check)
initialize the registers.
(check)
startup the sensors and data acquisition tables
(check)
charge up the rings
(check)
check computer status (OK)
(check)
release the particles
(check)
trigger the loggers and check velocities
(check)
cross the streams
(POWER OUTAGE)
"What the....."
(waits 1 hour)
power comes back on, notices coffee spilled all over the keyboard and table.
Clean up mess, announce the power grid at the city sub station went down instead (throws coffee cup into trash chute)....