CERN update

[AA999]

The long awaited re-start of CERN's LHC is coming closer, although a short circuit in a cold magnet section has caused a small delay. Meaning that the beam could be turned on in either a few days or a few weeks.
No date/time has been mentioned yet as to when 'opposing' beams will be turned on along with the detectors. But surely can't be that far away.

I last visited CERN just as they discovered the Higgs Boson and were conducting verification test before publication, the mood there was very 'energetic'.
As a person with a keen interest in science and its progression I am very much looking forward to what they can find when everything is up and running at full power.

Super-symmetry particles? Additional 'dimensions' with the possibility of 'viewing' black holes?

Science could be on the door-step of some big steps forward.

[Einion Yrth]

AA999 said:

Science could be on the door-step of some big steps forward.

Or they may not be able to break the standard model at the energies available; we shall see.

[ReaderScars]

<<Tinfoil Hat Alert>>

Maybe someone/thing is trying to send us a message?

You know, maybe 'they' can just dredge up enough energy required to cross a dimension or five and manipulate just a few tiny metal particles into place...

[Terminator X]

We're doomed, mini black holes etc!

TX.

[Silver Smudger]

Terminator X said:

We're doomed, mini black holes etc!

TX.

Keep a check on them here - http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldy...

[Munter]

Silver Smudger said:

Keep a check on them here - http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldy...

Perhaps it did but in one of the other dimensions. In this one we're still waiting for something else. Probably Great A'Tuin will come along and eat us for a snack...

[jmorgan]

I was looking up how they cool that thing down and not sure I understand it all. Are the tunnels cooled or just the apparatus?

[Halmyre]

jmorgan said:

I was looking up how they cool that thing down and not sure I understand it all. Are the tunnels cooled or just the apparatus?

Just the apparatus; the superconductors in the electromagnets that 'steer' the beam and probably parts of the detectors.

[AA999]

So... its looking like supersymmetry has taken a 'hit' and another 'thumbs up' of for the standard model.....BUT... still struggling to find the missing explanations for various 'connections' that the standard model can not yet fulfil.

http://www.sciencealert.com/the-lhc-s-latest-resul...


Like the article says, it would have been 'better' to find something that doesn't fit the main theory, so that they have new data to create a more refined model.