Starting up a major new particle accelerator takes much more than flipping a switch. Thousands of individual elements have to work in harmony, timings have to be synchronized to under a billionth of a second, and beams finer than a human hair have to be brought into head-on collision.
Attention nerdlings. Tune in to the LHC “first beam” broadcast, 9am-6pm. So far, so good.
I can’t get the live webcast to work
Try the 3rd link –”live on tsr.ch” – it’s working for me.
Thanks!
This is the gayest experiment ever. What are we going to learn by colliding two large hardons?
I see the bouncers are on a lunch break and the tone is sinking fast.
Colliding hardons? Wow. How do I get this webcast thing to work?!
I see development of the death ray is coming along nicely.
The Guild of Evil™ is watching with interest. Our orbital weapons platforms are due for an upgrade.
Hmmm. I was thinking this morning as “The Today Programme ” rolled out Steven Hawking to allay our fears of imminent destruction.
It suddenly occurred to me – what if it’s NOT Steven Hawking, but Ernst Stavro Blofeld with a “Speak and Spell” or worse – Davros. We could all end up looking down the wrong end of a large hadron sink plunger!
“The Guild of Evil™ is watching with interest. Our orbital weapons platforms are due for an upgrade.”
I knew this blog was just a front.
I prefer to think of it as the public relations department. It shows our softer side.
Here’s the link to the LHC webcams.
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
Aaaiiii!! 🙂