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From: CJ Dunnaway on 20 Sep 2008 14:24
Hadron Collider halted for months
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7626944.stm

I'm looking forward to more science fiction becoming reality before I
die, and these little setbacks aren't helping any.

CJ

From: Rowland McDonnell on 20 Sep 2008 18:11
CJ Dunnaway <cj_dunnaway-news(a)yaWHOhoo.com> wrote:

> Hadron Collider halted for months
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7626944.stm
>
> I'm looking forward to more science fiction becoming reality before I
> die, and these little setbacks aren't helping any.

The people behind the LHC factored in problems like that into their
timetable. You always get problems when commissioning a new bit of big
custom hardware, and the LHC is about the biggest and most custom bit of
hardware ever made.

It's not any sort of problem from the point of view of the project's
progress - it's just an annoying hiccup that needs to be fixed, but
they've actually had fewer annoying hiccups than they were expecting up
until this point.

Helium, by the way, will leak out through the slightest crack or flaw.
Liquid helium's worse.

My dad once worked on a helium chilled NMR machine and he worked (with
lots of others) trying to find the helium leak that *it* sprung once
upon a time. He had a look of severe pain on his face when he told me
the tale. It was a real sod, as he put it. And an NMR machine fits
inside a room.

They weren't expecting to be getting any results until next year in any
case.

Rowland.

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From: humble.life on 23 Sep 2008 05:04
CJ Dunnaway wrote:
> Hadron Collider halted for months
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7626944.stm
>
> I'm looking forward to more science fiction becoming reality before I
> die, and these little setbacks aren't helping any.
>
> CJ
>
them semiconducters run at a huge temperature, once the cooling fans are
on (well, helium supplies really) it'll be business as usual. oh and
once the replacement bits of burnt out copper are in.

MRI's go down like that, they'll find the engies...
From: humble.life on 23 Sep 2008 05:04
humble.life wrote:
> CJ Dunnaway wrote:
>> Hadron Collider halted for months
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7626944.stm
>>
>> I'm looking forward to more science fiction becoming reality before I
>> die, and these little setbacks aren't helping any.
>>
>> CJ
>>
> them semiconducters run at a huge temperature, once the cooling fans are
> on (well, helium supplies really) it'll be business as usual. oh and
> once the replacement bits of burnt out copper are in.
>
> MRI's go down like that, they'll find the engies...

semiconductors, sorry
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