LHC starts beaming Saturday: Collisions Dec 3
As all the world knows, the Large Hadron Collider - the mightiest particle-punisher in the world and possible portal to other dimensions - is shortly to fire up again, following last year's catastrophic liquid helium superfluid explosion. You can learn that much by following other media outlets like any ignorant drone. But you …
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Better direct link to webcams
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
Excellent
I think they should wait until 2012 to fire the beams together, and then get Obama there to push the button, along with contingencies from the WHO and UN.
Purely to watch the borderline-schizophrenic tinfoil hat brigade go nuts with their conspiracy theories :D
CERN’s site is disappointing
It’s disappointing that most of CERN’s site isn’t accessible to the blind using a screen reader. Not even the temperatures.
Still, the portal is a great (and accessible!) resource.
Omission
"Chris is the man to go to for all the latest supercold superpowered superconductor supercollider news"
It appears you left out at least one "super" there.
Beer
Buy that man a beer.
And its not the end of the world don't you know thats 2012, when they posssible finally get the thing to full power?
They have already run it at full power...
...It was on April 29th, 2010
This phrase needs completion...
I think they should wait until 2012 to fire the beams together, and then get Obama there to push the button, along with contingencies from the WHO and UN while people are queuing up to get vaccinated against avian flu.
@Beer, and @SeanM
Buy him a beer? We should give him a job!
SeanM: I'd be interested to know what the requirements are for this...I feel a google coming on..
nice one chris.
Its obvious that whoever blocked the cams is the sites designer.
re: @Beer, and @SeanM
I’m not sure what they’re doing, but my screen reader won’t read much… It gives some text, for example on the temperature page, it reads the sections (section 1-2), but that’s about it. I wouldn’t expect something like the "Cryo status" page to work that well (from what I’ve read, its graphic based), but I still would like to see some information.
Nice
Great work. Now CERN should pay him to organize their website, maybe?
I thought
the borderline-schizophrenic tinfoil hat conspiracy brigade rather neatly described 50% of the reg's readership
The 50% are,of course, just plain nuts
<<scuttling for cover before we're all smooched into a black hole created 4.42 am Sept. 12th 2011
Playmobile?
I thought this was going to be a Reg reconstruction. :-(
BTW someone should tell Cern (home of the web ad-fucking nausea) that their webpages are busted
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flhc-commissioning.web.cern.ch%2Flhc-commissioning%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.654
CERN fail
Yes CERN invented the web but alas its obvious they never really moved past 1994 web site design wise. Says a lot about the quality of their web design team that they need an outside site to navigate their own site. Stupid scientists think they can do everything including coding and graphic design. I love how scientists learn a little bit of code and then go on to write the most unscalable horrid unmaintable bubble gum chickenwire app you would ever imagine and consider themselves a software expert. Hopefully they do their science at a much higher quality and actually get the darn thing to work this time.
This is all wonderful !
Big thumbs up to Chris Stephens.
The world won't end in 2012
because the LHC will get in first.
Way to go guys
Its nice to see that all the commenter's are working hard to make Chris's dreams of people decrying the end of the world come true. So touching.
"This was a triumph"
"enthusiastic LHC-watcher Chris is the man to go to for all the latest supercold superpowered superconductor supercollider news."
Yep - right on the superbutton.
Ghostbuster
"don't cross the beams"
Why not, Will? You're not carrying this accellerator in a backpack.
It's true. This man has no d1ck.
@asdf
"Yes CERN invented the web but alas its obvious they never really moved past 1994 web site design wise. Says a lot about the quality of their web design team that they need an outside site to navigate their own site. Stupid scientists think they can do everything including coding and graphic design. I love how scientists learn a little bit of code and then go on to write the most unscalable horrid unmaintable bubble gum chickenwire app you would ever imagine and consider themselves a software expert. Hopefully they do their science at a much higher quality and actually get the darn thing to work this time."
Or, perhaps, those web pages are for their conveninece, not yours. Says a lot about scientists that they will go for functional rather than fluffy. Oh, and that's *their* requirements for "functional", not yours.
I am not worried
all I need is a crowbar and a pal named Barney
@asdf
I love how computer scientists learn a little bit of Newtonian physics and then believe that they're well equipped to pontificate about high-energy physics, general relativity, supersymmetry, and large-scale engineering, collider engineering and construction, and then write the most unreadable horrid unphysical bubble gum gibberish you could ever imagine, and consider themselves a physics expert. Hopefully they do their coding at a much higher quality and actually get the darn thing to not crash this time.
Here's hoping, eh?
@Ian F
2012...you forgot that the magnetic poles are predicited to flip in 2012.
Don't belive me?
Google "magnetic pole reversal".
Now that will REALLY F**K us up.....
Nostalgia
Still can't read anything about the LHC without reminiscing about playing 'Another World' when I was younger.
If any scientists have an ounce of common sense they won't fire it up if there is an electrical storm outside :)
LHC Photo
Am I the only one who thought at first that the pic of the inside of the LHC on this article looked a lot like the mouth of the kraken in Pirates of the Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest?
Paris, because I'm sure a certain body part of hers looks the same way...
Saddening reminder
We can fire and collide particles at near lightspeed, and yet, we can still only deliver milk at a pathetic 10mph.
@LHC Photo
If that image association bothers you, try thinking "goatse" next time you look at it. :X
Image reminded me of Time Tunnel
I'm sure many of my fellow commentards will recall Time Tunnel (1966) although I think we got it a bit later in the UK... I just realised that's what the LHC image reminds me of.... Evidence: http://thetimetunnel.com/ttcb.jpg It certainly makes you realise the subliminal influences on the scientists designing the LHC. Google about and there are even similarities in the control rooms: http://www.unmuseum.org/notescurator/timetunnel4th.htm
Enjoy it while we wait...... for something unexpected.
To quote imdb this all sounds eerily similar:
"Scientists Tony Newman and Doug Phillips are the young heads of Project Tic-Toc, a multi-billion dollar government installation buried beneath the desert. They have invented a Time Tunnel, which will allow people to visit anywhere in time and space. While testing the tunnel for an impatient senator, Newman and Phillips became trapped in time, and each week coincidentally found themselves at the site of an important historical event, be it the Siege of Troy, the sinking of the Titanic or an assassination attempt on President Lincoln. Sometimes they traveled into the future, and battled alien invaders. Ann MacGregor, Gen. Kirk and Dr. Swain are the scientists trying to fix the malfunctioning Time Tunnel and bring Doug and Tony back to the present (1968). Written by Marty McKee {mmckee@wkio.com} "
(Coat - Lab Coat of course).
Re: CERN fail
"Stupid scientists think they can do everything including coding and graphic design."
Stupid commentards think they know how CERN's IT stuff is organised. Do you really think there's a physics PhD tapping away at their keyboard and uploading pages to CERN's Web site, thus masterminding CERN's entire Web presence? In fact, there's a bunch of non-scientists doing a bunch of that stuff, including a bunch of people imposing bizarre and perverse constraints on anyone at CERN with their own site. Ever wonder why CERN addresses look like "http://xxx.web.cern.ch/xxx/"? So does everyone working there.
You can criticise the infrastructure people all you like - they were never really very popular - but it has nothing to do with your "stupid scientists" wild goose chase.
@asdf
Well, perhaps they thought spending the money on making the thing work, rather than on a bunch of pretty graphics that make NO DIFFERENCE TO THE RESULT was a better idea?
Yey! to the scientists for saving us money!
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