Does this scare anyone else?

[mediaboy]

15"?!?! Huh!

Get it right! It's 15.1"!

I'm upgrading to a 22" monitor soon. Once I've earnt enuogh money that is. Give me until january.

Thanks though, I like it.

[MadduckUK]

it completes you. now go forth and natter

[mightymouse]

now i am scared!!

the fat dude looked like he was going to eat the computers hehehe

[j1979]

sorry for the thread revival

but was wondering ....did the LHC cause the global financial meltdown?

[educatedfool]

It formed a black hole, sucking in everyones money.

[j1979]

It formed a black hole, sucking in everyones money.

will it spit it back out ? and suck in bernie madoff instead + terry christian too

[j1979]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20101101/...m-15af341.html

first micro black holes start to consume the world. maybe...

[pauldarkside]

I was obviously joking so how about you get off your high horse there an take a metaphoric or literal chill pill - FFS!

Is there really any need to drag up a 2 year old spat?

[neonplanet40]

well I only seen it now when the post before mine caused me to get an email. but you have now also took part in ressurrecting the thread as you have posted too its fun isn't it lol

[peterb]

Is there really any need to drag up a 2 year old spat?

Absolutely none - especially when the other member hasn't been active here for over 12 months.

So I have deleted both posts.

well I only seen it now when the post before mine caused me to get an email. but you have now also took part in ressurrecting the thread as you have posted too its fun isn't it lol

Not a thread you were very interested in then?

[Ploy]

Is it going to get turned on again? Have they had a successful run yet? I'm really interested in this stuff but have been unable to keep up with this story xXx

[mikerr]

Yep its still running and getting larger and larger collisions:
http://forums.hexus.net/general-disc...g-night-2.html
(we have our very own hexus member Fraz working there )


It just doesn't make the general senesational press headlines anymore .

[Fraz]

Yes indeed - we've had many many successful runs. The LHC has been running solidly since March this year, and we've had plenty of periods of stable beams for the experiments to take data. In fact, here is a bang-up-to-date plot of the luminosity (~number of collisions) delivered by the LHC and recorded by CMS, which is the experiment I work on:



As you can see, the luminosity has been increasing exponentially all year as the clever people in charge of the LHC cram more and more protons into the accelerator. In fact, the flat bits on the plot are periods of "machine development" where the accelerator guys are learning to do just that. This is why the graph is even steeper after every flat period, as there are more protons in the accelerator.

The 2010 proton physics run is just about to come to an end. Starting this week sometime, the LHC guys are commissioning heavy ion beams, so instead of putting protons in the LHC, they'll be putting in lead nuclei instead. Lead ion beams produce totally mental collisions, and hopefully lots of quark-gluon plasma. I'll post up some pics when we start getting them.

[Ploy]

I'll post up some pics when we start getting them.

I tried to understand it but I'm ashamed to admit I only got a bit of it. Definitely yes on the pics though! That would be awesome!

xXx

[Phage]

I get the gist. If a proton at ~C is a lot of energy then a Lead ion at 208 is a metric buttload of energy.

[Salazaar]

It's just like the old saying 'a man can never have too much quark-gluon plasma'.