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The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run

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Re: The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run

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I wonder if there was another human sacrifice under the Shiva statue to mark the restart. Only half joking. Has anyone heard any more about why scientists performed a mock ritual like that?

Some may be tempted to call fake news, but there was a snopes article about this stating that it was a prank: http://www.snopes.com/human-sacrifice-captured-at-cern/.

Re: The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run

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I wonder if there was another human sacrifice under the Shiva statue to mark the restart. Only half joking. Has anyone heard any more about why scientists performed a mock ritual like that?

Letting loose 200 summer students will result in some sort of event. When we were getting ready for the 2008 startup of the LHC someone sent a crowbar guess how many Gordon Freeman themed youTube videos came out of that.

Re: The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run

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Ok taking bets now, missing muons are.. [ ] issue with calculations [ ] go away with more data [x] new physics! [ ] other

I'm hoping it's some kind of temporal fuzzing where particles are going backwards in time and causing interference with both past and future events. No reason other than because that'd be awesome.

I'd settle for figuring out how to send an email to a previous point in time. I'd like to email myself in 2009. Something about buying a bunch of ASIC's and mining something for a long-term hold.
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