LHCNews Dec. 18th, 2009 - End of run with high energy collisions

[baf4redrum]

thanks for all your posts , I was also wondering if any video related to Time Machine themes is currently available around... , I'm gonna cross my finger and hope all these experiments give good results, (I guess there are very good chances in this sense, anyway..) - Best.

[santasa99]

Viva la LHC, you guys rules !

Paola rules !

[muffles12]

well it got a very late  start

[audreyyam]

good job LHC! =)

[muffles12]

i am dont undesrtand why they pick for february for restart it because winter shutdown ? help me explain

[sugarisgoodness]

Anyone who believes this experiment is risking the lives of those on earth is a catestrophic fool. Media trying to scare you as always. Remember bird flu?

[quantumbits]

@sugarisgoodness Possibly. But the whole point of this experiment is venturing into the unknown. I don't discount any theories about the possible outcomes of high energy collisions. No one can.

[sbergman27]

@quantumbits : Oh please. Collisions of equal and far higher energy are occurring in our upper atmosphere right now, and have been for a few billion years. No Earth-consuming black holes yet.

[adzii1]

Woo 13 days till restart and we die :( i don't wanna die waaa ;'(

[Nercury]

Noooooooo! :D

[mdma4life]

Whats a 'nuclear proton'? lol you have no idea what your saying do you?

Its easy to create nuclear fusion (thermonuclear bomb ? .. aka H-bomb), its not easy to create CONTROLLED nuclear fusion

LHC is not designed for fusion events, thats the work of the ITER project currently under consutruction

[vexatuvex]

someone remove that chair at 1:37 for crying out loud

[tamj15]

lol aajjajaauaajja XD

[johnkaoszed]

cool i like this who cares black wholes or whatever the power to know is much more necessary that anything in this world know where we going and where we came from y punto

[CrafterRuneGuide]

Why do we need this experiment when nasa can most likely see the big bang and conditions after the big bang in our own galaxy so we don't need to test this on earths risking everyones lives >:(

[SidandCoke]

Actually NASA can't do that. The LHC is expected to give us evidence that may lead to a unified theory of physics. That is the holy grail and if successful will lead toa new technological shockwave.

[jileel]

cross your fingers for super symmetry and the higgs :D

[vexatuvex]

nasa doesnt have shit on this.

[muffles12]

the lhc is shutdown till february 2010 dont know date .

[RamiAtrash]

1:03 that background music drives me crazy

[mctroots]

Are you a retard? research like this can take 5,10,15 years to complete and the notion that the lhc could produce a black hole that could destroy the earth is pure bollocks! Any black hole matter the lhc produced would be a TINY fraction of what a real black hole produces. Dont believe everything you read in the newspapers!

[adamsfunnyfilms]

Actually,the notion of a black hole is true.The kind of bh are harmless ones, microscopic and incredibly short lived, although produced, if they are produced, by the thousands or millions a year...probably only when LHC is running at max power.

[adamsfunnyfilms]

If micro BH do appear it might imply the existence of additional spatial dimensions beyond the three we know now.Finding new dimensions would be exciting for us civilians,but,for physicists, it may hold answers to creating,at last, a unified physics that makew sense of both the tiny scale forces that hold atoms together and the gravity that pulls on everything we can actually see,and mctroots,it's about love...not calling people names.

[TheChilly77]

Did they create anti-matter??? or find a higgs particle??? come on guys, what is going on?

[VaeSapiens]

@TheChilly77 To my news: They detected mions last. Which is GREAT!

[TheChilly77]

What is a mion, sounds cool.

[adamsfunnyfilms]

I don't think the public will know for a little while what really happened. Something was found. It could have been higgs, who knows outside of who was actually there?

[Wh47n0w1517]

Whoopee, the World is safe for another Month from the scientists, the scientists have gone on holiday.

Oh well, I hope the scientists did not forget to feed the birds with some Baguette bread before they went on holiday. =)

[CrafterRuneGuide]

its january don't they start in january?

[muffles12]

no lady said they are restart february which is next month

[adamsfunnyfilms]

I'm not excluding Alien (other intelligence) existence,after all, it is their victory as well as ours.

[adamsfunnyfilms]

It looks as if we are ready to step forward into a new understanding,I mean,who is to say we are not?Aliens?Haha.Every single living creature on this planet, inside their core of being,wants to know what will be found.May God be with you guys. Oh...nice vid. 5 stars

[thorough39]

They are clearly censoring the findings...That scientist gave it away at the end....They have made a major discovery and are not telling the whole truth!!!!!

[CrafterRuneGuide]

experiment*

[phongbong]

No Higgs particle yet huh?

[Smertopia]

@CrafterRuneGuide Oke professor... What is the answer then?

I'll give you a hint.

70% of the universe is dark energy.

29% is dark matter.

Less then 1% is matter. (galaxy's, planets, humans, etc.)

We dont yet have a clue what the 99% of other stuff is and what it does.

This experiment is to find that out what the universe is realy like.

Pretty important in my view.

[reapersgateway86]

yeah i got that concept but how can we use this information...like 'i don't know time travel,teleport,cut through matter itself and reach high stellar speeds? lol' or creat a cool futuristic microwave that makes pizza from a pill :D

[zapleaf]

I love numbers like this, The unknown makes life more exciting ^-^

[CrafterRuneGuide]

Well obviously god didn't create the universe it was the big bang and why do we need to know what it's made out of the only important thing is that we are here and they are risking our lives with this experent.

[HiAdrian]

They are risking noone's life, nonsense. The more we know the universe, the better we can manipulate it to our advantage, very valuable.

[HiAdrian]

They should have spent it on your education instead. On second thought, THAT would have been a poor investment.

[CrafterRuneGuide]

Yeah.

[tareqjj]

why is all the equipments is under ground ??

they would have saved money if it was a bove the ground ??correct

[v4lgrind]

@tareqij: Not really for several reasons, but most importantly because you want it level, so you'd have to build bridge-like structures instead.

The tunnel is also reused from the last accellerator.

[M31Galaxy1]

I cannot think of any company that would invest billions and then let that investment sit becasue it's to expensive to run.

[xXDominoXx]

Finally I was waiting for you guys to finally fire it up

does this one create more dark matter than the other colliders?

[Krumbz2003]

How cool would it be to work at CERN? You know how much tail you could get??? And they'd be super smart chicks too! lol

[cphdotdk]

@Krumbz2003

True. Would love to work there too.

Know a girl, her bf works there as a scientist. It should be pretty cool...oh, and the smart chicks ain't bad:D

[alejoortizvega]

I think is the best oportunity for know where we come and where we are going

[alejoortizvega]

I think this is a realy great oportunity to know where we come finaly :D

[1RadicalOne]

Particle accelerators are a unique and ingenious way to probe the fundamental particles.

You simply MUST build one of these around the equator of your moon.

[juliansantoyo]

realy nice to look this excelent cientific experiment almost in real time

congratulations CERN people

[rjconnolly]

Love the updates! Keep them coming!

[TheZeroBeats]

nice my B-day is in february i hope they get some usefull information. :D well good Luck CERN (Y)

[theQbelek]

It's nice that you update the general public on what you are doing. I don't understand all that quantum physics stuff, except for few general concepts, but it still makes me feel happy to hear people are progressing in the field...

[M31Galaxy1]

How could you ever shut down the worlds most expensive scientific tool? It should be run 24/7.

[pigpenthegreat]

Because it's insanely expensive to run? They have said in the past that they'll be doing most of the work during the summer months anyway.

[Krumbz2003]

It shuts down during the winter as well as for safety reasons.

[netsoj]

Very good CERN! I'm proud of you guys!

[MrCalhoun]

Is it true that linear algebra is really a very important part of the math of quantum physics like you are doing in Geneva? Since I heard that from some fellows.

[ampthebest]

1.21 gigawatts?

[CERNTV]

1.21 Tera electron-volt (Tev). This is the measure of beam energy used for particle accelerators.

1 electron-volt is equal to the amount of kinetic energy gained by a single unbound electron when it accelerates through an electrostatic potential difference of one volt.

1 Tev = 1000 billion electron-volts.

[jedaaa]

@CERNTV

i was just about to say that.......promice ;p

[HiAdrian]

As it turns out, Mr/Mrs CERNTV is a real scientist, not a nerd that follows pop culture and the memes it spawns :D

[CrazySpike]

I lol'd

[RadioJack]

@ampthebest Learn your conversions from volts to watts.

[RadioJack]

@ampthebest Whoops, looks like I need to learn my conversion! lmao.

[unarmed1234]

love the rave music at the end lol

[RtFusion]

I wonder what OSs these computer system uses.

[CERNTV]

mostly Scientific Linux

[RtFusion]

Good 'ole linux. And god I hate it so xD.

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

@CERNTV linux nice; thats the way to go. i guess you already knew that though lol

[defect530]

yes get rest, you don't need another mishap.

=[

[spinynorman1982]

I hope that there will be an collision that gives everybody on Earth super cosmic powers.

[T4l0nITA]

lmao

[32937isready]

Worlds biggest waist of time.

[treeboyx]

That would be ¨waste¨ of time, and more qualified people than you apparently don´t agree.

[Qulopuaa]

@32937isready time dont exist more than hunger or god

[Tartrus1]

@Qulopuaa No time does exist and it can be slowed down. Hunger exists as a feeling. God however does not.

[EmanuelHoogeveen]

There is actually a lot of debate about this in discussions about Quantum Gravity. The problem is that time, as variable t, doesn't exist in General Relativity. It only emerges, (through an integral I believe) when you solve the equations for a specific case, and ideally they would like to avoid going into specific cases when combining GR with Quantum Field Theory.

[reapersgateway86]

probably a stupid question but i was wondering...apart from answering some doubted hypothesis...how will this lhc help our future, how can we use this tecnology to our uses?'sorry for the bad inglish'

[EmanuelHoogeveen]

I doubt anyone can really give you an answer to the question of what its discoveries will do for us, but this 'blue skies' research always has a lot of spin-off technologies. I can think of two famous examples for you off-hand:

1) the Internet was originally developed at CERN to allow international access to LEP data.

2) the laser, which is used in pretty much every field of science today, was a solution without a problem for over 30 years.

I know there are examples for the LHC as well.

[jedaaa]

@reapersgateway86

its all the spin off science that it will bring

one major example would be that radiation treatment for cancer patients uses the same exact machines thay use at the LHC, also the guys making,improving,designing them and using them work in both fields, thats just one example, im sure there are hundreds.

[jedaaa]

@reapersgateway86

oh and not to mention the place only cost as much to run as a medium sized university.

[TheOfc100]

I think bringing you to life was actually the biggest waist of time.

[EmanuelHoogeveen]

You don't want to know if the Higgs mechanism - our only way of explaining particle mass - exists? (not to mention supersymmetry and all the rest of it)

[niiidar]

good video as usual, but why the low quality?

[EasytoonGuy]

I think it's just some glitch that occurs right after the video is uploaded. The same usually happens with TED Talks' videos too. The video should be back in high quality in about 15 minutes if I'm right.

[Saukko31]

Higher quality takes longer time to process, looks fine now.

[DeletedDelusion]

I hope 2010 will be a successful year for the LHC.

Good luck.