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  • September 2008

    • Balky Collider Offline Into '09

      Times (UK)  |  Sep 23, 08 3:52 PM CDT

      Balky Collider Offline Into '09

      (Newser) - A serious malfunction, and the necessarily slow progress of repairs, will keep the Large Hadron Collider from starting its first experiments until spring, the Times reports. A major problem Friday shut down the European atom-smasher, and officials said the heating, repair and recooling of the giant magnets would take 2 months. But scheduled winter maintenance will intervene, effectively shuttering the huge experiment into 2009. More »

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      France  • Switzerland  • repair  • delay  • Large Hadron Collider  • CERN  • particle physics

    • Atom Smasher Out 2 Months

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Sep 20, 08 10:53 AM CDT

      Atom Smasher Out 2 Months

      (Newser) - It turns out that the glitch with the Large Hadron Collider is worse than originally thought and will keep the massive atom smasher out of commission for at least 2 months, the Telegraph reports. The collider, which seeks to replicate the Big Bang and solve mysteries of creation, began to malfunction the day after its first test last week. More »

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      science  • repair  • Large Hadron Collider  • CERN  • particle physics

    • Glitch Stalls Atom Smasher

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Sep 19, 08 12:40 PM CDT

      Glitch Stalls Atom Smasher

      (Newser) - The Large Hadron Collider, the $5-billion, 17-mile experiment seeking answers to the universe’s deepest mysteries, hit a snag within hours of its Sept. 10 launch, but its overseer did not report the malfunction for a week, the Daily Telegraph reports. A 30-ton transformer in the cooling system broke, causing tests to cease just a day after it fired its first proton beam. More »

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      Large Hadron Collider  • particle accelerator  • CERN  • universe  • Big Bang  • particle physics  • God particle

    • Supercollider 'Beautiful' So Far, Scientists Say

      Bloomberg  |  Sep 10, 08 5:50 PM CDT

      Supercollider 'Beautiful' So Far, Scientists Say

      (Newser) - Scientists working with the massive atom-smasher buried under the French-Swiss border have already “seen some beautiful tracks coming off” the beams of protons circling the 17-mile loop, Bloomberg reports. “Things can go wrong at any time, but luckily this morning everything went smoothly,” one scientist told National Geographic . With the first test behind them, scientists will now gradually ramp up the experiments. More »

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      Switzerland  • Large Hadron Collider  • Big Bang  • Higgs boson  • God particle

    • 'Big Bang' Machine Switched On, We're Still Here

      Reuters  |  Sep 10, 08 5:09 AM CDT

      'Big Bang' Machine Switched On, We're Still Here

      (Newser) - The Large Hadron Collider was switched on today and the world did not end, as some doomsayers predicted, Reuters reports. Scientists at CERN in Switzerland now plan to use the giant particle-smashing machine to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang and shed light on the origins of the universe. Interest in the experiments soared after doomsday writers predicted the machine could spawn a black hole and destroy the world. More »

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      physics  • Large Hadron Collider  • particle accelerator  • CERN  • Geneva

    • Huge Particle Collider Ready for Debut

      New York Times  |  Sep 9, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      Huge Particle Collider Ready for Debut

      (Newser) - Physicists across the world will spend the wee hours of tomorrow morning watching with bated breath as the world’s most expensive science experiment gets under way, the New York Times reports. At 3:30am Eastern, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will switch on for the first time, sending particles racing through a 17-mile track underneath Geneva, with nothing less than the core of particle physics at stake. More »

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      Switzerland  • Large Hadron Collider  • particle accelerator  • CERN  • Geneva  • dark matter  • particle physics  • Higgs boson

    • Physics and Improv Collide

      Wall Street Journal  |  Sep 4, 08 2:43 PM CDT

      Physics and Improv Collide

      (Newser) - Physicists trying to explain the nature of the universe using the largest particle accelerator ever built are also trying to learn something else: communication skills to help them explain what they’ve learned to the rest of world. And they’re going about it in a unique way, the Wall Street Journal reports—through improv comedy. More »

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      comedy  • Large Hadron Collider  • particle accelerator  • CERN  • European Organization for Nuclear Research

  • June 2008

    • Earth 'Safe' From Mammoth Collider: Report

      BBC  |  Jun 24, 08 4:00 AM CDT

      Earth 'Safe' From Mammoth Collider: Report

      (Newser) - Fears that experiments with a giant particle accelerator could trigger a planetary-wide cataclysm have been dismissed as science fiction by the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The 17-mile-long underground Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland will smash nuclear particles together at super high speeds. Some fear collider experiments could trigger mini black holes—and the destruction of the planet. More »

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      Large Hadron Collider  • CERN  • University of Cambridge  • European Organization for Nuclear Research

  • March 2008

    • Particle Collider Prompts Doomsday Suit

      New York Times  |  Mar 30, 08 2:45 PM CDT

      Particle Collider Prompts Doomsday Suit

      (Newser) - A particle smasher in Switzerland could suck up Earth and possibly the whole universe, a US lawsuit claims. The suit warns that the $8 billion Large Hadron Collider near Geneva could spark a matter-sucking black hole or a "strangelet" that turns our planet into "strange matter." But one Princeton scientist dismisses the claim, saying the Collider is as likely to "make dragons that might eat us up," the New York Times reports. More »

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      Hawaii  • physics  • Large Hadron Collider  • particle accelerator  • black hole  • CERN

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