Update 1700pm (BST) Collisions in 1 week; Party started, champaign for Big Bang Mgrs ; beams fired both ways

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LAST VIDEO ¤ LIVEVIDEO beam detected ¤  LHC-explainer !

comment: beams are fired two ways, next action beams collide in chamber!

LAST UPDATE 1700pm (BST)
FROM Andrew Caspari, Radio 4, in central control room
Just spoken to Lyn Evans who has been running things here at CERN. He confirms no collisions for the time being. The next phase is really to start to control the beams or in the language here, 'capture them'. The first collisions which will be at relatively low energy will be in a week or so they think. These are unlikely immediately to offer new physics but the word from Lyn Evans is there is a lot of excitement even over whay they have so far.

Update 1450pm (BST)
FROM Alexandra Feachem, inside the control room at CERN
Continuing a tradition of long standing among accelerator physicists, a delegation from the CMS collaboration drove the 6 miles from their experiment to the control centre to deliver a bottle of bollinger, wrapped in a print out of the first particle detections, to the machine managers of the LHC - gratefully received

Update 1411pm (BST)
FROM Professor Brian Cox
I get the feeling that everyone is quite surprised and extremely relieved that both beams ( clock and anti clockwise to collide in the chamber ) have successfully circulated the LHC today. The party has really started in the central control room. Its important that both beams have circulated because it means that there no major technical issues with it. The LHC has truly been born!
Update 1252pm (BST)
FROM Andrew Caspari, Radio 4, in central control room
So we are still waiting on the next beam which will go the other way round to this mornings. The people here are still anxious about the cryogenics and the need to cool down the magnets. Plenty of optimism still but the red bits on the screens have to turn green. Some very large baguettes being munched and people are gathering amidst an expectant humm

update 1155am (BST)
FROM Andrew Caspari, Radio 4, in central control room
One of the screens here that is almost entirely green has got a few spots of red on it. That means a few magnets are a bit warmer than they should be. Operations manager Paul Collier says it is not a big worry but will delay the anticlockwise beam by about 45 minutes

UPDATE 1031am (BST)   LIVEVIDEO beam detected.....
The first beam event in the ATLAS detector! view screenshot

UPDATE 1020am (BST)
FROM Andrew Caspari, Radio 4, in central control room
Some of the screens are darker now. I am told they are sorting a couple of software problems but at midday cet they will have a go at sending the beam the other way round.

UPDATE 0940am (BST) beam made 3 roundtrips !
FROM Deborah Cohen, BBC Radio Science, in central control room
Claire Timlin has just arrived in the CCC having hot footed it from CMS. There she says was a scene of great excitement and champagne as the beam went through. Claire says:"We waiting expectantly for the beam going in the opposite direction. I thought I was going to be really cool about it but we're like kids at Christmas. It was like a NASA countdown to a launch". Claire is going to be live on Woman's Hour on Radio BBC 4 at 1000

UPDATE 0924am (BST)
Report from the LHC central control room
Beam has completed journey around tunnel (source: BBC)
CERN SHUT DOWN LIVE WEBCAST

$ 10 BN BUDGET FOR BIGBANG MACHINE. No money for Webcast, that's the way to create credible fear. No confidence should be credited to this low end couch potato scientists ignoring the world's civil society, that was as stupid to finance them. How could scientists handle a black matter BigBang collider, a step into the Unknown? They could not even forsee or prepare people looking webcast in the year 2008

Or should the world see nothing?

NO TV NO WEBCAST ?    WHAT is the plan to exclude public opinion ?

CERN invented Internet for science 12 years ago, what a shame !!!!

French iTele broadcasted just a video simulation, if experiment goes wrong, how the collider starting from swiss could eat up earth, like a bulldozer (could !, speculation ongoing) In one hour I will upload the short video sequence.

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LHC First Beam - 10th September 2008 - 9am CEST (GMT+2)

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Just found this Satellites coordinates, eventually transmission of Event.

http://lhc-first-beam.web.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam/satellite.html