Ironic this comes on the same day as the plane crash in the area.
The location of the crash (near Barcelonnette France) is about 130 miles Southeast of CERN’s main loop in Geneva Switzerland.
Video report from tatott1009 here:
March 24, 2015
“(Reuters) – Scientists at Europe’s CERN research centre have had to postpone the imminent relaunch of their refitted ‘Big Bang’ machine, the Large Hadron Collider, because of a short-circuit in the wiring of one of the vital magnets.
“Current indications suggest a delay of between a few days and several weeks,” a statement from the world’s leading particle physics research centre said on Tuesday.
Engineers had been expected to start on Wednesday pumping proton beams in opposite directions all the way round the two 27-km (17-mile) underground tubes in the LHC, closed down for the past two years for a refit.
That would have been the prelude to the start of particle collisions in late May at twice the power of those in the LHC’s first run from 2010-2013.
The smashing-together of particles inside the LHC is designed to mimic conditions just after the Big Bang at the dawn of the universe. In a breakthrough in 2012, CERN scientists announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe, which appeared to be the boson imagined and named half a century earlier by theoretical physicist Peter Higgs.
Hopes for the second run lie in breaking out of what it known as the Standard Model of how the universe works at the level of elementary particles, and into “New Physics.”
That includes searching for the dark matter that makes up about 96 percent of the stuff of the universe but can only be detected by its influence on visible matter around it.
CERN scientists expressed disappointment at the last-minute problem, in just one of the underground machine’s eight sectors, which have been rewired and checked thoroughly during the closedown. But the research centre’s director general, Rolf Heuer, played down its significance.
“All the signs are good for a great run 2,” he said in a statement. “In the grand scheme of things, a few weeks delay in humankind’s quest to understand our universe is little more than the blink of an eye.”
Scientists and engineers at CERN, mindful of a serious leakage in 2008 which caused a delay of two years in the start-up for the first LHC run, have long insisted that there can be no rushing into full operations.
Frederick Bordry, director for accelerators, said it could take time to resolve what he described as an intermittent short-circuit because it was in a cold section of the machine, meaning that part would probably have to be warmed up.
It would then have to be recooled. “So what would have taken hours in a warm machine could end up taking us weeks,” he added.”
2 comments:
First of all Higgs boson is not the "God particle" they hoped it would be and it will take them awhile to figure that out.There are no experts on the planet and they have a very limited understanding of quantum physics and even less of (trans) hyper dimensional concepts. They hope to make a rift with CERN to change time lines and the quantum physics of the planet but it isn't going to happen no matter how much power they try to get out of that collider. They are just guessing and hoping that if they crank it up high enough something great will happen. Faisal and the other fools and mad scientists are typical of all government and scientific positions on the planet. "More money (and power) than brains" Never so much as now has it been evident that Earth is an out of control ship of fools, off course and all sails set for full speed ahead to no one knows where.
AMEN BUDDY, MAYBE WE CAN PUT THEM ON AN ALIEN SPACE CRAFT TO A PLANET FAR FAR AWAY ALONG WITH HARRY REID, OBOZO AND .....ALL......OF CONGRESS....
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