Scientists likely to switch particle smasher back on next summer

RIA Novosti
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

GENEVA, November 18 (RIA Novosti) – The world’s largest particle collider, which was shut down soon two weeks after being launched in September, will not be restarted until summer 2009, a Swiss daily said on Tuesday.

“It will most likely happen in the summer rather than in the spring,” the Tribune de Geneve quoted James Gillies, spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), as saying.

The official also said that the CERN Board of Directors will meet on December 12 to discuss repair work on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and to determine the possible date for the resumption of its operation.

On September 10, amid much hype, scientists fired the first beam of protons round the vast underground circular device, which is run from a control room in a suburb of Geneva on the French-Swiss border.

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However, on September 24 the LHC was shut down due to a helium leak into the tunnel housing the device.

The collider, located 100 meters below ground with a circumference of 27 km, enables scientists to shoot sub-atomic particles round an accelerator ring at almost the speed of light, guided by a powerful field produced by superconductor magnets.

Particles are sent round the ring in extreme vacuum cooled by liquid helium to minus 271 degrees C.

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10 Responses to “Scientists likely to switch particle smasher back on next summer”

1. blindboy Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

   I figured they would be asking for a bailout by now.

2. Paul T Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

   Let’s hope the “scientists” switch their brains back on at the same time and stop wasting their time and other people’s money on these absurd, speculative, nonsensical theories. (The Big Bang etc).

3. "C" Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

   …many experts believe:” the LHC collider is a gateway to other dimesions. Maybe Hell” [stephen quayle.com]

4. Terry Waite Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pm

   Good. Let’s hope they never switch this thing on. They’re going to try and kill God by aiming Zionist death-particles at him. It’s a disgrace. They should be concentrating on the important scientific issues – like taking toxins out of our water supply, aspartame out of our food and peanuts out of our Revels.

5. none Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

   terry waite is classic “religilious”. pretty sure if a “God” existed, he/she/it would be tough/smart enough to send em right back, assuming we live in bizzarro world and could send zionist death particles (insert head-shaking/laughter here) into space.
   you should be more concerned about removing the crazy from your brain, more so than peaunuts from your chocolate covered iced dessert stick. idiot!

6. Brass Balls Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

   I wonder how long it takes to cook a turkey in that thing,

7. Terry Waite Says:
   November 19th, 2008 at 4:37 am

   Revels are a bag of mixed-chocolates, many different flavours living side by side as God intended, except the ones with nuts (Jews) threaten to kill many who consume. You’d know that if you weren’t so busy profaning with your secular candy-bars.

   This large hardon collider is the most crooked erection I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen a few.

8. Steve Williams Says:
   November 19th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

   Excellent! That means there’s still time for people to buy passage on the Titanic!

   The Titanic is the largest, most luxurious, safest ship afloat. You can’t possibly go wrong sailing on the Titanic! When the Titanic leaves Southampton for New York, you’ll definitely want to be on it! Be there or be square!

   Oops! That black hole just ripped a hole in the side of the Titanic… Oh well, these things sometimes happen… Luckily, there are enough lifeboats for everyone! What? There aren’t? Well, my my, that is a bit of a fly in the oinment, isn’ it…?

9. global plantation serf Says:
   November 19th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

   It’s cool how they were able to convince someone to build this thing.

   Meanwhile back at the ranch, we can’t even convince someone to balance the Federal Government’s budget.

10. Smelle Says:
    November 19th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    POO POO POOOO What can come of this, perhaps a way to build a better world , safer energy, zero piont perhaps, perhaps a gateway to the stars in the form of smater engines.The more we know about the litttle things the more we can use it to make the big things that go zoom zoom!! Dont wish to get to technical here!