Friday, November 20, 2009

Large Hadron Update

The MSM has been silent on the LHC but the BB will get the 411 PDQ from our friends at Wikipedia:

On September 19, 2008, the operations were halted due to a serious fault between two superconducting bending magnets. Repairing the resulting damage and installing additional safety features took over a year. As of November 9, 2009, particles were going half way around the LHC, and the first high energy collisions are expected to most likely occur in early 2010.

If these particles are supposed to be going all that fast, how come they started out Nov. 9, 2009 and haven't got around to colliding yet?

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