A tour of the world's biggest supercollider goes live soon

[DW_Bomzin]

This should be coming online this weekend . Hopefully they learn something constructive from this .


A inside tour

Just alittle about it

The collider is contained in a circular tunnel with a circumference of 27 kilometres (17 mi) at a depth ranging from 50 to 175 metres underground.[8] The 3.8 metre diameter, concrete-lined tunnel, constructed between 1983 and 1988,[9] was formerly used to house the LEP, an electron-positron collider. It crosses the border between Switzerland and France at four points, although most of it is in France. Surface buildings hold ancillary equipment such as compressors, ventilation equipment, control electronics and refrigeration plants.

The collider tunnel contains two adjacent beam pipes, each containing a proton beam (a proton is one type of hadron). The two beams travel in opposite directions around the ring. Some 1232 bending magnets keep the beams on their circular path, while an additional 392 focusing magnets are used to keep the beams focused, in order to maximize the chances of interaction between the particles in the four intersection points, where the two beams will cross. In total, over 1600 superconducting magnets are installed, with most weighing over 27 tonnes. Approximately 96 tonnes of liquid helium is needed to keep the magnets at the operating temperature, making the LHC the largest cryogenic facility in the world at liquid helium temperature[10].

[DW_Ant]

It's good to step away from blood once in awhile. I'm glad you brought this up :)

[DW_KarmaKat]

Nice one, Mr. B! Thanks!

We are all made of star stuff.... ;)

KKat

[MONKEYSPUNK]

There was a Series on over here (UK) called "Megastructures" and they did a program on this project. I can't begin to tell you how mind boggling it was to watch. This machine could 'potentially' tell us the secrets to the Universe and what happened milliseconds after the Big Bang and the Higgs boson theory . The technology behind it is quite simply, brilliant. This sounds fantastic, but has one minor drawback in my view. If they switch this thing on and it creates a massive Black Hole, sucking everything in it's path into it, how am I going to get an internet connection? :sign6:

[zeus]

Just think, if that happens, all of the world's debt will be gone!

[DW_Mobius]

There was a Series on over here (UK) called "Megastructures" and they did a program on this project. I can't begin to tell you how mind boggling it was to watch. This machine could 'potentially' tell us the secrets to the Universe and what happened milliseconds after the Big Bang and the Higgs boson theory . The technology behind it is quite simply, brilliant. This sounds fantastic, but has one minor drawback in my view. If they switch this thing on and it creates a massive Black Hole, sucking everything in it's path into it, how am I going to get an internet connection? :sign6:

Solves world hunger too.

[Frylock]

Supercollider? I just met her!

[Flak_Monkey]

Supercollider? I just met her!

Wow... just wow.

[40_Shards]

http://blogs.indystar.com/geek/2008/09/ ... on_co.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7600966.stm

At some point Wednesday (late Tuesday here in the U.S.), the switch will be thrown for the initial testing of the Large Hadron Collider on the border of Switzerland and France. The 17-mile underground loop will eventually smash stuff together with seven times the force available at the Fermilab collider in Illinois in an attempt to see what the universe was like a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

Two days away already... at least if the entire universe is packed into an impossibly small space, my ping might improve a bit... :salute:

[MONKEYSPUNK]

D-Day. I hope they know what they are doing cos me and Charliespunk go on holiday tomorrow!!! :offtheair: