The end of History or the making of

[Joseph Hart]

Correction, again...

LHC First Beam will start at 3am est, and the world may never know the big announcement at 10:30. :)
Just like Y2K, get your lawn chairs out and enjoy the Apocalypse! If not, we can enjoy big news!

[pacelli]

First beam is 9am eastern?

[Joseph Hart]

First beam is 9am eastern?

i corrected the time, its at 6am
ill double check

[Joseph Hart]

correction. itll be at 12pm est

[pacelli]

correction. itll be at 12pm est

Doh. I just used the online calculator. It is actually at 3am EST, so in less than 2 hours. They're saying 9am CEST (GMT+2).

I'm in North Carolina (eastern time) and I'm GMT -4.

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/north-carolina/

Using this calculator, we see that 9am gmt+2 is 03:00 (3:00 A.M.), same day

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/gmt-converter.htm

Start your stopwatches, 1 hour 45 minutes until the earth stands still.

[JK/SEA]

http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=lhc-to-switch-on-early-tomorrow-ami-2008-09-09

[RideTheDirt]

*waits for them the cancel because something breaks, or create a black hole(which never have been proven to exist).*

[american.swan]

Is there a diagram of this facility showing it's size and what is http://www.sciam.com/media/inline/blog/Image/LHC-ATLAS-beampipe.jpg

[Joseph Hart]

*waits for them the cancel because something breaks, or create a black hole(which never have been proven to exist).*

lol!
If you watch the live feed youll see the flash of the UN logo ever so often.

[aravoth]

Century 9 Quatrain 44

"Leave, leave Geneva every last one of you,
Saturn will be converted from gold to iron,
RAYPOZ will exterminate all who oppose him,
Before the coming the sky will show signs."

[notsure]

I'm pretty sure today is only a Test Run. The big bang aint happening 'till October 21st or maybe even Spring 09. I know for sure though that they wont be colliding particles until late October.

http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/09/10/News/In.Switzerland.Prof.Prepares.For.Test.Run.Of.Parti cle.Accelerator-3422540.shtml



Today's test run will consist of running a continuous beam through the entire accelerator to make sure it is operational.


http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_First_Test_Run_for_the_LHC_Scheduled_for_Sept ember_10_21806.html


European officials at the European Center or Nuclear Research announced that the Large Hadron Collider will accelerate the first proton beams on September 10. Even though this test run will not push the extremely powerful particle accelerator to its limits, it will be used as part of the calibration process which is supposed to take until spring to complete.

It is supposed to accelerate particles to energies of 7 trillion electron volts, about 7 times more energetic than any accelerator in use today. However, until reaching this performance, the LHC has still a long way to go.

Officials at the CERN announced that the first particle beam will be injected in the LHC latter this month. However, the first time a proton beam will travel through the entire 17 miles track will be on September 10. At that time, the protons will be accelerated to energies of 450 billion electron volt, a value much smaller than what the accelerator can provide.