I did a trip there last month and it was excellent to see the equipment close up. Will be fascinating when it starts up again.

http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/09/geek-side-trip-cern.html

To CERN's credit they do a very good job with tours. It was even better when you could go inside before it was closed up.

How many years of failure would it take before you would seriously consider this hypothesis? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolut...

5 years for me.

How many operational failures were there, exactly? I think it was at least 2 or 3 fairly large setbacks, right? I guess the problem here is just how damn long the system takes to cycle up and down. I imagine if the LHC could turn on and off within a few hours we would have seen the entire facility blow up if the theory were true.

I propose an alternate theory in which the LHC does destroy the world thereby never allowing time travel to be developed.

"The idea is to run the LHC over the winter at half its rated power before bringing the collision energy up to its full 14 tera electron volts (TeV) sometime next spring. At that point, we should see... well, we're not entirely sure what."

Kind of laughed at that part.

I would put money down that what we'll see is it breaking again.

It's news like this that makes me wish that http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ had an RSS feed.

Edit: looks like they added one. Now I can allow myself to sleep again.

It does.

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/rss.xml

Oh but that is just wrong. See for yourself... http://qntm.org/?board

Viewing the source on that site is much more fun than the site itself.

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