LHC ready to rumble . . .
News from CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) is that the Large Hadron Collider, better known as the LHC, is to take is first attempts at it’s designed highest energy levels, 7 TeV, tomorrow (March 30th). Links to a press release, videos and a live webcast from 8:30 to 18:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time), are available the CERN’s public site. (There is also a page of photos of physicists in the control room. The photograph to the left is of only one part of the room.)
I’m too busy to write anything original, sorry. Hopefully I’ll be more active later in the week.
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Some wag has put up this “live webcam” of CERN: http://bit.ly/aedmkq
HT: @nzben via @five15design
If you’re out and and about at this wee hour (it’s past midnight here…), this is a live (as far as I can tell) video stream from CERN:
http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/
I am supposed to be working, but…
Caught it a few minutes before the first collision, which was nice timing 🙂
‘CERN’ was ranking at #2 worldwide on twitter. (Not a hashtag, just the keyword.) Science gets a following 🙂