The End of the World part1
Those unneccesarily worried about the world’s end next week when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was scheduled to begin smashing its first particles will be delighted to know that the test has been postponed after a significant fault was detected on Friday. A technician found that one of the accelerator’s superconducting magnets was out-of-sync during routine testing.
The End of the World part2
This is of concern because the supercooled helium that chills the LHC’s magnets to 1.8 degrees centigrade above absolute zero was released into the accelerator’s 17-mile tunnel in the incident. Engineers were still investigating the extent of the problem Friday afternoon, and CERN officials could not say how long it would take to fix it or how long of a delay this will cause in the proposed atom smash.
This is of concern because the supercooled helium that chills the LHC’s magnets to 1.8 degrees centigrade above absolute zero was released into the accelerator’s 17-mile tunnel in the incident. Engineers were still investigating the extent of the problem Friday afternoon, and CERN officials could not say how long it would take to fix it or how long of a delay this will cause in the proposed atom smash.
The End of the World part3
“It certainly means we will not have collisions on Monday,” stated James Gillies, CERN’s chief of communications. “We are now looking at the middle of next week at the earliest.”
“It certainly means we will not have collisions on Monday,” stated James Gillies, CERN’s chief of communications. “We are now looking at the middle of next week at the earliest.”
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