Large Hadron Collider sets world record

[Kshasty]

Source: RIA Novosti

The Large Hadron Collider set a new world record on Monday, accelerating its twin beams of protons to unprecedented energy levels, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on its website.

The record of 1.18 TeV comes 10 days after the LHC was restarted. The previous world record of 0.98 TeV had been held by the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Tevatron collider since 2001, CERN said.

"It marks another important milestone on the road to first physics at the LHC in 2010," the scientific organization said.

Read more: http://en.rian.ru/science/20091130/157038808.html

[Solly Mack]

1. k/r

[rurallib]

2. Welcome to DU, Kshasty and thanks for the update.

research there will no doubt have an effect on our future.
BTW,be sure to tell us if they create that black hole. Ok, Thanks!

:toast: :toast: :toast:

[Rebubula]

3. That explains why...

...I passed out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds this morning.

[Frank Cannon]

5. Probably also explains why...

I had to fight off this fat crab-like thing that kept jumping at my head. Thank God I had a crowbar handy.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. Hello, Gordon.

[cowcommander]

8. They're waiting for you... in the test chamber

[NYC Democrat]

9. "Wake up Mr Cannon wake up and smell the ashes"

[no limit]

27. Is this you?

[benEzra]

29. ROFLMAO!!!

WWGFD?

[cowcommander]

35. oshi-

[jberryhill]

38. Die Freeman! /nt

[Soylent Brice]

4. K&R

awesome stuff. welcome to DU :hi:

[Kshasty]

11. thanks :)

[Soylent Brice]

14. : )

[paparush]

6. Yay Science!!!!

I'd much rather pour $$ into science (and schools, bridges, sidewalks, etc) than into senseless resource/religious wars.

[SkyDaddy7]

10. JOKE!

A Higgs Boson walks into a church…The priest says, “We don’t allow Higgs Boson in here!”…The Higgs Boson says,”…But without me how can you have mass?”

[SnowCritter]

12. Rimshot!

http://instantrimshot.com/

[Soylent Brice]

13. lol

[NYC_SKP]

15. Is that a Large Hardon Collider or are you just happy to see me?

damn spellcheck. :mad:

[AlphaCentauri]

16. Hope the military will never get that type of technology

they'll make a shit making machine with it

[jimshoes]

26. They could have had one of their own

but Congress in 1993 nixed the Superconducting Supercollider being built in Texas that would have rivaled or bettered the one at CERN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider
edit: Already posted below, sorry.

[Maestro]

31. I live about 10 miles from the rotting and decaying remains

of the buildings that were to house the supercollider. We were so excited in Texas when this was going in. Scientists were flocking to the area, but then funding was cut. I cycle passed the old buildings still standing, but unused about 3 to 4 times a week on my bike rides.

[LiberalFighter]

17. Could they put Bush and Cheney in it and see how fast they accelerate?

As an incentive they could put Palin at the end of the collider.

[caseymoz]

18. Funny, I didn't notice a black hole rising this morning . . . nt.

[kirby]

19. Blackhole was detected...

In between Palin's ears.

[Silent3]

20. Now they'll point it at the Moon!

The evil wealthy white male power structure, eager to despoil and ravage and RAPE everything they touch, failed to make the sacred feminine Moon submit by bombing her, so now they'll unleash their unholy ray guns against her next! :mad: :tinfoilhat: :mad: :tinfoilhat:

[derby378]

21. Texas came SO CLOSE to being the home to such a collider...

...but I'm happy for CERN. This is a huge accomplishment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ_JZ6K-mHQ

:headbang:

[Rozlee]

23. What, we almost got a collider!!!???

That would be like Neanderthals watching planes fly by. These anti-science fundies would have thought it was a type of abortion. The only good thing about having put one down here would have been if it did produce a black hole and seceded Prick Perry into it.

[caseymoz]

24. Yes, back in '94, we almost started building such a collider in Texas.

Unfortunately, the project got pulled due to politics. Then Ann Richards and a lot of powerful democrats got unseated in the election, and the project was killed.

[Nevernose]

37. It was near Waxahachie; some of the buildings were even finished

Or maybe Waco. It was one of those "W" towns (no relation to Dubya). There are still buildings on site, parking lots and stuff.

[shireen]

39. it waas Waxahachie

i think they built the tunnels

[derby378]

25. Google "Superconducting Super Collider"

That was going to be our atom smasher, even bigger than LHC. The holes were dug, construction had already begun, the physicists were coming in, and my former boss had an administrative job there. But the cost overruns and project delays began to pile up, too many people in Congress were getting cold feet, etc., so Capitol Hill finally pulled the plug.

[girl gone mad]

34. It would have been bigger and better than LHC.

It's one reason why I got to study under so many brilliant Physicists without having to move to California, though.

[BreweryYardRat]

28. Huh. Neat factoid, but...

Maybe it was for the best. The TX collider probably would've been bombed by religious fundamentalists. Bleeding-edge physics technology + bomb = I don't even want to think about what could've happened.

[ooglymoogly]

22. Important info, funny posts and welcome to DU kr nt

[benEzra]

30. Another tidbit...I have read that the detector(s) are the coldest known place in the solar system.

Colder even than the surface of Pluto at midnight, or the surface of any Kuiper Belt body.

[valerief]

32. Or Dick Cheney's damaged heart. nt

[Yavin4]

33. Any Squidbillies Fans Here?

This was already done in the Georgia mountains.

[hadrons]

36. I have the perfect username for this story