Large Hadron Collider schedules holiday for 2012, full 7 TeV power for 2013
By Vlad Savov 
posted February 3rd 2010 8:20AM
posted February 3rd 2010 8:20AM
It's good to know that even huge inanimate objects appreciate the need for a work-life balance. After a nice winter hiatus, Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider is coming back online soon, set to resume smashing protonic beams at one another with the force of 3.5 trillion electron-volts (TeV) per beam, or 7 TeV in total. We have to swallow hard when we hear such force described as "low-energy," but that's what the LHC designers consider it, and moreover we're learning they'll skip past the middle and go for the full 14 TeV potential smashes after a retooling break during 2012. Although this may delay the discovery of the Higgs boson particle, other physics research shouldn't be stalled in the meantime -- scientists claim they'll be able to extract data from the low-energy collisions that could lend us more information on aspects of string theory, extra dimensions, and supersymmetry. Doesn't all this sound like nerds trying to avoid getting real jobs?
Once the Higgs boson has been discovered on January 2013 with 14 TeV of beam power, it will go back in time and cause an Apocalypse in December 2012 setting humans hundreds of years backward .... just to make sure no one will ever discover it again....
OK ... enough of the 2012 jokes,... i really hope after this multi-billion investment that the they can come up with the ultimate answer to the universe, the everything theory that is ..
It's pretty clever of them to shut it down durring 2012. because of all the 2012 end of the world hype the LHC may have been a target for terrorist attacks. Maybe now that it'll be taking that year off; terrorists will be less likely to try anything.
Since the world is supposed to end in 2012, I guess we'll have to find something other than the LHC to blame.
@cwalters74
shit
How about hilary clinton?
Why do I get the feeling someone missed a decimal place in their calculations and 2013 is really 2012?
>>Doesn't all this sound like nerds trying to avoid >>getting real jobs?
Doesn't just sound like that, that's exactly what they're doing. Don't forget that one of those nerds inverted the world wide web...
@cwalters74
The thing is, no mayan or whoever said 2012 was going to be the end of the world. They did say it's the end of this world age, which i guess is supposed to be like this level of awareness. This just means we're that much closer to being a mass of energy instead of a body questioning our own existence and crying while listening to emo-pop.