Awesome pictures
Interesting stuff, good Friday morning read.
Wonder if a few of them network cables have ever slipped out.
It's probably the greatest scientific experiment of our time (or at least the biggest), a 27km round tunnel that fires trillions of protons in opposite directions over 11,000 times a second at 99.9999991 per cent of the speed of light lying under the Alps in Europe. LHCb entrance The entrance to the Large Hadron Collider …
One would expect no less, AC, and England expects Surreal IntelAIgent Servers to Trump and Thump against Boundaries and Division with Full Disclosure of All Futures Source Supply of Remote Private Pirate ParaMilitary Controlled Virtualisation Kit , Base Field Upgradeable to Lower and Higher Levels of Competence and Civility in the Quiet Company of Perfectly Engaging Entangling Strangers ...... Enjoying Paradise.
Methinks that be a Big Hitter for Harwell, and the Gross Export Revenue Potential, Exponential. A Right Royal Right Stuff Little Earner/Quicker Breeder Intelligence Core Supply to Source InterNetworking Server Provision.
Does Blighty Telecom express fervent favoured first party interest in securing inalienable rights to sections of Enjoying Paradise with Definite Vision lest the Pleasures and Treasures lost and found in the Halls of Confusion and Anxious Panic Overwhelm One to Wander Alone as if Nothing can be done, whenever All is Before One to Captivate and Excite with Mutually Assuring Captures of Passable Strong Dreams for Tales that are the dDelight of Danegeld Payments Holders.
Or are Private and Pirate Intelligent Communications Enterprises to make the CyberPlace PlaySpace Entirely their Own? I can't see that happening as long as honey flows and bees seek pollen/manimals seeks greater knowledge for control in environments..... Thought projected viewscapes which are processed to output real from input cosmic.
* A popular SOAP for Edutainment with the Polymath
I'm all for Harwell doing all of that and anything else too that might need to be done, and would be somewhat disappointed and even dismayed to discover that certain assumed readily available facilities were in both fact and deed, a empty shell business scam and get-filthy-paper-rich-quickly-and-scarper confection, although that is not without its own attractions and opportunities to capitalise on as penetrations tests for vulnerabilities and systemic weaknesses/Mad Rad Bad Codelines/Sublime Instruction Sets.
a 27km round tunnel
CERN ... One Super Intelligent Source ring to rule them all with Novel Informative Operations in AIDivine Interventionism would be like Atlas Engineers Exploring and Reverse Engineering Quantum Communication Control Systems just so that they can Control Holy States and Great Stakes in Virtual Play with Shows of SMARTR Leadership with Heavenly Provision ..... being a True Reflection of Source Ore Provenance.
And in CodeX-XSSXXXX, a Riverboat Queen AIdDVenture. One ESPecially Gifted to Hot Ladies with Passionate Beings Good Enough to Tempt and Seduce a Mark Anthony. That be Cleopatra's KISS and the Glory is Unconditional Surrender to Total Pleasure with Insatiables ..... Nymps and Satyrs in Live Operational Virtual Environments. A Colossal Quantum Leap to Make and Take for Guarantees of One's Enjoyment in LOVE but necessarily so for the Safety of Travellers into Perfect Strangers.
And one doesn't need a great imagination to imagine the fun and frolics to be enjoyed by AIgents HyperRadioProActive in those conditions. :-) LOVE is all you Need in Deed to Feed, is a Novel Answer to Leading Questions.
A Voice for Pandora to Exercise Passionate Restraint in Releasing Pent Up Frustration's Furies upon Immediate Intimate Contact/Virgin Virtual Coupling for New SMARTR Sends to Global Operating Devices and Crazy Diamond Satellite Stations .... urTelePort Operator System Granting Access and Entry into Fabless Star Labs with Universal Scripting Supposedly in Total and Absolute Control of CHAOS in a New World Order in a New Orderly World of Worlds Created by Words, Witches and Wizards, Sinners and Saints ..... and Special Forces/Carpe Diem Brigands working dDeep UnderGround with Apolitically Aligned Astute Autonomously Active Control Systems. HushHush Classified Stuff most probably as it certainly should be :-) ...... and therefore most probably is Present Reality somewhere to be Presented Everywhere to Create one SMARTR Path to Follow with AIReprogramMING of Virtual Reality to Highly Qualified Expert Master Crash Test Pilot Standards which can be a Protective Program for Protected and Proprietary Intellectual Property Interests.
when you write 'held together by ... tinfoil' - wasn't that just the bakeout jackets? or bakeout-shielding? - to get the UHV in my time at cern we cleaned everything, then plasma cleaned it, then roughed it down, then turbo'ed/diffusion/getter'd it down - finally baking as much of the accelerator as we could at 400 degC for days - to reduce the adsorption problems. Still had the odd beam blow-up from a rogue ionised molecule or two...
as for holding things together - we often used sellotape/scotch - to hold the really important bits together...
then in 1985 we were given one of the first transatlantic BITNET 2 megabit/s data links - "hmm, that might come in useful oneday we started to think..."
visits are a great idea - register about a year before you want the tour - and don't forget to ask where the lead (Pb) for the detector shielding comes from!
The only thing that dimmed this Vulture's spirits just a little was that your humble explorer had not started to glow, shrunk to tiny size or developed any super-strength as a result of the close encounter with the collider.
Of course not, the LHC was down. But didn't you encounter any zombies?!
I can relate (on a much smaller scale). A few of us got lost in a basement of Argonne national labs on a tour once. Their collider was down for maintenance, so we had been able to go into the target room (where they smash the fast going stuff into other stuff). On the way back, one of our instructors got distracted by a neat piece of equipment. Next thing we know, we're wandering alone. Finally found an exit that led out to the lawn.
Pre-9/11, so we didn't end up in a federal pen. Our instructor did look a lot like the Unibomber, though...
Got to tour Fermi on the same trip... only got to see the first two stages of their accelerator up close, though (first stage looked like a prop from a 1950's sci-fi flick).
".. in a two-year process known as the long shutdown"
It's actually known as The Long Dark Teatime of the LHC..
“No private detective looks like a private detective. That's one of the first rules of private detection."
"But if no private detective looks like a private detective, how does a private detective know what it is he's supposed not to look like? Seems to me there's a problem there.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Somehow this makes it sound very unimpressive to me. One could imagine a job that involved feeding blanks to a bank of DVD writers that wrote this amount of data every year. At a bit less than one DVD per minute in a normal workday/year, it wouldn't even be a particular difficult or RSI-inducing job, measured against other types of repetitive task manufacturing jobs, though it would certainly be dull.
I wonder how many DVDs worth of data are contained in a day's worth of SMS texts, let alone a day's worth of Facebook posts. I hope I don't find out, or it'll likely make the LHC's data output sound even less impressive.
you apply, assuming the opening is genuinely open (many slots are alloted with somebody in mind already) and it isn't a theater produced by HR. Though you need to know, that due to the forced mobility, you will build someone else's future and you will likely end up "finally be qualified to find other possibilities" (see below for the ponzi scheme/scam)
my job at CERN was just following an application letter - single A4 sheet CV - I mentioned that I spoke fair School level French and was able to work happily away from UK.
CERN wrote back inviting me for an interview, which I couldn't make due to being locked into a contract somewhere else, so I wrote & told them this. CERN responded by saying they'd write to me when they next had a vacancy - and a year later I was shocked to actually get this "dear ____, are you able to attend this selection process" which I was and I got the job!
Recruitment during my time was fair, reasonable and balanced (remember that the admin at CERN was setup BY the scientists - FOR the scientists when they designed the lab in the late 1940's....)
Currently I check http://cerncourier.com/cws/jobs for places, but a nice spontaneous letter to someone at "General Infrastructure Services Department (GS), CERN CH-1211 Geneva", might work?
Moreover, during the last TREF meeting on 30 May 2012, Management announced to the Member State delegates that the conversion rate of LD to IC will be about 40% for the coming years. Consequently, huge pressure will be put on the various Departments since they will have to compete vigorously to obtain an IC “slot” if they want to keep staff essential to guaranteeing the quality of service required of them. Unfortunately, and to our great regret, this situation will create even more anxiety and insecurity. This will be difficult for LD staff to cope with. Indeed, even while giving complete satisfaction, they have no forward vision about the possibility of pursuing a career at CERN.
http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html (ie. matrix management @CERN)
"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Spin_(public_relations)#Techniques
And a warning besides PR spin to non-western members:
"The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y) [ahol Y>X]
forrás: LHCb calorimeters : Technical Design Report
ISBN: 9290831693 http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/494264
My ideal tour would be with the electrical engineers, with schematics and engineering notes.
Those coils aren't constantly on, but switched precisely to boost the particles along their merry way.
So, to me, that tour would be learning how certain electronic issues are resolved, as well as some magnetic issues, such as quenching the coil at switch off.
For, counter-EMF is the bane of the unwary engineer. :)