CERN's Hydron Collider

[Hamish]

Does anyone know how much data these experiments will be producing, I'm sure I heard a figure like 300Tb/day or something silly

 

[Glaucus]

That's a little misleading; outer space is actually about 100,000°C (not that ambient temperature has that much meaning in space)

That's a quote of the LHC website..

 

[Inquisitor]

That's a quote of the LHC website..

They're still being misleading though

 

[Sherbs]

So I might die because a bunch of those geeks want to find some little bits of air.....time to start bashing some heads in

Check out the Source though, Terry Pratchett?

 

[martin9887]

I know a guy who used to work there, he sent me these links to photos.

Alice:
http://free-electron.net/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1161

Atlas:
http://free-electron.net/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1311

Webcams: http://atlaseye-webpub.web.cern.ch/atlaseye-webpub/web-sites/pages/UX15_webcams.htm

 

[Cr0fty]

There's going to be loads of typos calling it a hard-on collider

 

[GDad]

My sister worked on ATLAS until recently and still works at CERN. Visited there a couple of years ago and went down to the great cavernous ATLAS pit they had dug out for the sensors to be put in and saw the LHC being built. Hoping to go back around March to see it all finished, don't understand most of it but find the whole thing facinating and inspiring though

 

[Dunks]

So I might die because a bunch of those geeks want to find some little bits of air.....time to start bashing some heads in

What a way to go though

 

[PhillyDee]

only physicist can justify spending millions on a machine to fine a particle

i'm personally looking forward to when the LHC is fully operational, that is if it doesnt kill us all.

I think its actually closer to £4bn over its lifetime.

Source:New Scientist

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, illustrates just how daunting the problem can be. In May, it is due to begin smashing high-energy protons together in a bid, among other things, to discover the elusive Higgs boson, a particle thought to be responsible for endowing matter with mass. Sensors in the 27-kilometre circumference machine are expected to generate 450 million gigabytes of data over its 15-year lifetime, enough to fill 640 million CDs. The raw data will be stored on discs and tapes and converted into a more accessible format which can be made available to researchers via a grid of 100,000 computers around the world. Despite the magnitude of the project, CERN has no idea if it will have the cash or technical resources to preserve these data sets after the particle smasher has fired its last proton beam in 2023.

Thats a LOT of information.

 

[Energize]

Energize, are you working at CERN? If so, is there any chance of some hi-res photos of the installation? The closest I've ever got is flying over at 2500' in a Bell.

God no I'm still in 6th form.

It's all on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

 

[Spitfir3]

Im going next march.. head of Harvard (physics bit anyway) is gonna be showing us round parts of it

 

[Azagoth]

God no I'm still in 6th form.

It's all on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

Ah, righty. I'm still pretty damn sure that someone on these boards is actually working on the project. Just can't remember who exactly.

 

[joeconway]

I went there last year, was pretty spectacular!

I think its actually closer to £4bn over its lifetime.

the guy i had a talk with mentioned the epic sum of £15bn....he was a little bit crazy though.



I have some pics somewhere if anyone wants me to digg any out

 

[Azza]

A chem lecturer from my Uni (Dr. Chass) is going there in March with his team (PhD students inc I think) to smash protons into Hydrogens I think he said.

Hes been given a whole month to carry out work there using there stuff. Seems to be a very big thing for him.