LHC@home

This does sound interesting - thanks for pointing it out. I think i'll look into it when, as you said, it starts giving work to do. I was reading about the LHC in New Scientist today - was quite a good read and they have set themselves some pretty impressive goals. I guess i could help do my bit!
 
hm i did do some work for it before, but its been outta work for a long while, so I decreased resource share. was going to put it back up again, but guess what?

LHC@HOME is down for maintainance
 
By the sounds of it when they fire the thing up (well... i guess you dont just 'fire it up'...), it sounds as though there could be loads of WUs if they use grid computing.
 
there will be a few months before they manage to get the protons to collide, maybe there will be some work for that. they spent 10 billion on it so im sure there would be a supercomputer(s) for the analysis. i hope the do put some out for DC
 
MGP said:
In view of this sensationalist version of events, I'm wondering whether my previous crunching went to a worthy cause:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article1630897.ece

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I wouldn't wipe my bum with the Sun newspaper. While I only have an A level in Physics, I'm told the particle collisions are already happening naturally in the upper atmosphere, and have done for millions of years, at much higher energies than what they can replicate in the LHC. Basically, if anything bad was going to happen it would have already done so.

"Millions of tiny black holes will be produced," is just pure speculation. It's probably just as likely to start raining donuts.
 
Meridian said:
I didn't think the true run data was going out to DC?


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I thought this also, a project as big a LHC was never going to rely on charity to process it's data.

I had a look on the site and it turns out the actual DC work is analysing the orbit of the particle beam itself for stability, not the collision data.
 
MGP said:
In view of this sensationalist version of events, I'm wondering whether my previous crunching went to a worthy cause:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article1630897.ece

:eek:
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Nah, that's just a conspiracy theory put about by governments who want to divert us from the fact they're developing a giant ray gun. Unfortunately, the artist who created that picture knew the truth and added an obvious clue for the rest of us to find.
 
Right of the article:

My view

By PAUL SUTHERLAND

COULD it be the end of the world? Well, probably not.

The truth is we are getting bombarded by high-speed particles from space all the time.

The theory is these tiny black holes will vaporise as quickly as they are created.

I went down into one of CERN’s giant chambers last year. It was the size of Westminster Abbey – a cathedral to science.

We are in the hands of some of the best minds in the world and should trust that they know what they’re doing.

So, yes, it is safe – but, just in case, I’m going to ask to be paid early this week.
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How they can count down to the end of the world and print that on the same page baffles me. I don't think I could work for them and feel fulfilled. They've basically given people no news whatsoever.
 
theheyes said:
I wouldn't wipe my bum with the Sun newspaper. While I only have an A level in Physics, I'm told the particle collisions are already happening naturally in the upper atmosphere, and have done for millions of years, at much higher energies than what they can replicate in the LHC. Basically, if anything bad was going to happen it would have already done so.

"Millions of tiny black holes will be produced," is just pure speculation. It's probably just as likely to start raining donuts.
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the collisions i think you are talking about are from cosmic rays and nutrinos, while they can be high power as far as i know the LHC can create much higher energy collisions (14TeV) compared to several GeV from the cosmic rays
 
The Sun said:
In the experiment, atomic particles will be fired in opposite directions along the 17-mile long underground ring — the length of the Circle Line on the London Underground
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Why couldn't they have just done it there then, would have cost a darn sight less than £4.4 billion :p

Besides for all we know there's probably hundreds of black holes in Londons underground already :D
 
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