CERN scientists will begin attempting to cross the beams at LHC tomorrow morning • Hacker News Board

Re: CERN scientists will begin attempting to cross the beams at LHC tomorrow morning

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Post by dantheman » Tue, Mar 30, 2010, 7:40 AM UTC

So it started @ 3am EST time. First 2 tries failed to get the beam up. They expect to try again after resetting the machine @ 5am EST or about 1.5 hours from now.

You can also follow them via twitter @CERN http://twitter.com/cern

Also a working link to the camera is http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/

Re: CERN scientists will begin attempting to cross the beams at LHC tomorrow morning

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 30, 2010, 8:40 AM UTC

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Re: CERN scientists will begin attempting to cross the beams at LHC tomorrow morning

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Post by david927 » Tue, Mar 30, 2010, 9:46 AM UTC

Collision is now set for 13:15 CET.

Re: CERN scientists will begin attempting to cross the beams at LHC tomorrow morning

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Post by hackermom » Tue, Mar 30, 2010, 9:55 AM UTC

It's been nice knowing you all.

Re: CERN scientists will begin attempting to cross the beams at LHC tomorrow morning

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Post by arethuza » Tue, Mar 30, 2010, 9:59 AM UTC

Possibly the second coolest thing that CERN has ever done.

Re: CERN scientists will begin attempting to cross the beams at LHC tomorrow morning

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Post by rms » Tue, Mar 30, 2010, 10:04 AM UTC

hackermom wrote: post #14

It's been nice knowing you all.

Well obviously it hasn't worked yet.

Re: CERN scientists will begin attempting to cross the beams at LHC tomorrow morning

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Post by pmjordan » Tue, Mar 30, 2010, 10:39 AM UTC

david927 wrote: post #13

Collision is now set for 13:15 CET.

CET or CEST? Us central Europeans transitioned to DST Last Sunday.

Re: CERN scientists will begin attempting to cross the beams at LHC tomorrow morning

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Post by ThomPete » Tue, Mar 30, 2010, 11:10 AM UTC

Collapse of the beams. Particles starting to collide. Now the final stage of the experiment beginning.

Exiting!

Re: CERN scientists will begin attempting to cross the beams at LHC tomorrow morning

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Post by guessy » Tue, Mar 30, 2010, 11:15 AM UTC

from http://twitter.com/cern

"Experiments are collecting their first physics data - historic moment here! Watch the webcast, look at the photos - all live!"

Re: CERN scientists will begin attempting to cross the beams at LHC tomorrow morning

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Post by ugh » Tue, Mar 30, 2010, 11:17 AM UTC

ThomPete wrote: post #18

Collapse of the beams. Particles starting to collide. Now the final stage of the experiment beginning. Exiting!

CERN is also testing if, given enough exclamation marks, Twitter will collapse onto itself and become a black hole: http://twitter.com/cern :)