LHC Superconducting Magnets 3

[iRouRoui]

can some one tell me what is this video about? I'm stupid...

[oisiaa]

Holy technology!

[live4Cha]

wasting money!!!

[oisiaa]

@live4Cha Or, in my view, spending money in the most awesome way possible!

[bull912000]

1:11 just one more QQ

[Santoslhelpa]

geniusses

geniusses.

[inzhener2007]

Круто, вот люди (таких не мало), которые стремяться!

[coldironhands1]

Look around you, look around you, yes look around you

[superfisto]

Why helium?

(Because it becomes virtually frictionless at low temp?)

[stevebd1]

I'm assuming the fact that it is impossible to set up a temperature gradient in a superfluid (i.e. helium-4 at temperatures below 2.17 K) means the temperature is evenly distributed throughout.

[joebot1]

I don't profess to know anything about particle accelerators, but it looks small in diameter to me...

..I expected it to be like...bigger

[kurtilein3]

the amount of energy used and the resulting forces are still insane ^^ and thats just the magnets pushing against the beam.

did you know that the kinetic energy of the beam equals 157 kilograms of TNT? every time they want to get rid of the beam, the beam dump gets that amount of energy.

[stevebd1]

Considering the circumference of the pipework is 16.5 miles, they would have been as efficient as possible in the design; the detectors themselves are a different story, the ATLAS detector is 25m in diameter, 46m long, the CMS detector is 16m in diameter, 21m long. The ATLAS detector is equivelent in height to a 9 storey building.

[CivilSerpant]

well apparently they had a bigger model the size of a Football stadium, but it was attracting to many Hooligans so they made it smaller.

[DarkTrunksGeorgeSim]

Bigger means more costly and hard to manufacturate sometimes... so it is really an achievement to have come with an small design as explained in the video.