LHC-Large Hadron Collider [1/3]

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) that lies under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC is in the final stages of construction and commissioning, with some sections already being cooled down to their final operating temperature of approximately 2K. The first beams are due for injection mid June 2008 with the first collisions planned to take place 2 months later.The LHC will become the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.The LHC is being funded and built in collaboration with over two thousand physicists from thirty-four countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.

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[DesertHamster]

nope, we're still here... =p What a suprise eh?

[ninjamaritz]

The total energy involved when the particle beams collide is roughly what you get when you clap your hands once, roughly speaking.

Not quite Chernobyl.

[ytmoog]

@treevis83

"inconcievable anomalies"

Actually they went far smoother than most new particle colliders. So hardly 'inconcievable'.

These are the standard kinds of issues when working on such vast and complicated systems,

[treevis83]

Why were there so many incidents that stopped thier first testings. Look it up. The inconcievable anomalies that happened were interesting

[TheDrummerBarnes]

@ninjamaritz the total energy when two beams of protons collide is 14 Tev. if you take the energy of a mosquito which is roughtly 1 Tev and place the same energy in an area that is a million million times smaller, this gives you a rough idea of the energy involed when the two beams of protons collide

[Sherifme1020]

@ninjamaritz it less than that, more like the energy required to knock a book over when its upright.

[Sherifme1020]

@Markarone ur really dumb. The total energy of the collision doesnt even make enough energy to power a lightbulb for a second. The reason that LHC is no gonna blow up and kill us all is becos the particles are tiny. and even at 0.95 times the speed of light, one of them wouldnt even be able to knock over a dictionary.

[jared4wally]

thay said on december 21 2012 it beging the lhc.

[bulletproofcourier]

good video, fascinating stuff.

[rugbytlse]

Come on, you don't even know what you are talking about. First thing, get some scientific qualifications and then you'll be able to talk.

[Cougar333]

Believe me, I wasn't implying that it could happen. There was a soviet man who survived a direct hit from a particle accelerator... He's blind in one eye, it burnt a hole through his skull and scalp, he's deaf in one ear with nothing but a constant and unpleasant sound, the left side of his face is paralyzed, and he suffers from seizures... But, he lived!

[detibry]

still not enough. key word: energy density