Oh crumbs! Hadron Collider breaks down

Of course the conspiracy theorist will now be saying stupid things...Some physicists have said that time-travelling particles from the future could be damaging the machine in an attempt to thwart any experiments....

CERN unveils computer grid linking 7,000 scientists

Serious number crunching to be a co-CERN project !Grid computing is changing science the world over."CERN, the world's biggest particle physics laboratory and creator of the Worldwide Web, on Friday unveiled a new computer network allowing thousands of scientists around the...

Hadron collider out of action until spring

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva will be out of action until the spring while engineers investigate a fault, it was announced. A large amount of helium leaked into the tunnel on Friday, forcing the...

Quenched: Large Hadron Collider Halted

The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) suffered a coolant leak yesterday. causing scientists and engineers to shut down the massive experiment for repairs... repairs that could take months."Part of the giant physics...

Large Hadron Collider broke down hours after launch

UPDATE: 8:27PM ESTThe experiment with the Large Hadron Collider may be delayed indefinitely." Plans to begin smashing particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may be delayed after a magnet failure forced...

Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider

It seems that those who object to the CERN experiment to recreate the Big Bang have upped their protest by hacking into the Large Hadron Collider computers."The scientists behind the £4.4bn atom smasher had...

"I am frankly humbled." - CERN Scientist Working on the Large Hadron Collider

Conor Fitzpatrick is looking for something amazing. The Irish experimental particle physicist will be checking data from the CERN large hadron collider, which had its first successful beam test in their giant...

The black hole of unknowing

" As to global annihilation, I’m stumped. Most of us wouldn’t recognise a strangelet if it casually devoured us in the street There’s a slim chance –...

BigBang Collision Live

"An Australian physicist says a science experiment which begins in Switzerland today is a major milestone in the history of scientific discovery. Scientists have built a 27-kilometre long underground circular tunnel that houses the Large Hadron Collider, which will allow...

How the Large Hadron Collider Might Change the Web

"When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) begins smashing protons together this fall inside its 17-mile- (27-kilometer-) circumference underground particle racetrack near Geneva, Switzerland, it will usher in a new...

"Big Bang" or Black Hole?

"GENEVA - Tests have cleared the way for the start-up next month of an experiment to restage a mini-version underground of the "Big Bang" which created the universe 15 billion years ago, the project chief said on...

Is the Atom Smasher Safe?

Stop the scientists before they destroy us all!  That's what a Hawaii man with a background in nuclear physics is asking a court to do." Walter F. Wagner and his colleague Luis Sancho have filed a...

Earth 'not at risk' from collider

Well, that's one less thing to worry about. If we did disappear down a black hole, it would probably be over pretty quickly anyway."Earth 'not at risk' from collider ...

Mini-BlackHole Will Not Swallow Earth, Same Cannot Be Said About Artie Lange

I know I can rest easy now... well, easier. "Our planet is not at risk from the world's most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded....Critics have previously raised concerns that the production of weird hypothetical particles called strangelets... could...

UW scientists join hunt for 'God' particle to complete 'theory of everything'

When the world's most powerful subatomic particlecollider begins gathering data this summer, it will be a majormilestone for a number of University of Washington scientists. The UW, led by professors Henry Lubatti inphysics and Colin Daly in...

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