Particle Collider in Europe, Long Awaited by Physicists, Is Delayed Until 2008
The Chronicle of Higher Education: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has announced that it will delay starting up the giant Large Hadron Collider from this November until May 2008. The decision was taken at a council meeting earlier this week.
The move has a number of implications for the particle physics community, including the likihood that the lifetime of Fermilab's collider the Tevatron might extended in order to try and beat the LHC to discovery of the Higgs Boson particle.
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I had high hopes that when CERN switched on the LHC in November of this year, they would inadvertently create a black hole, thus increasing the sales of my book, 'The Ancient Order of Moridura' (with a related theme of a nascent singularity created by a meteorite impact in Extremadura).
But then I realised that the extinction of the planet - and probably the solar system - would prevent me from collecting my royalties. Life can be unfair sometimes!
However, doomsday has been postponed until April/May of 2008 because of problems with magnets.
The Higgs boson must be chuckling quietly in interstellar space, its anonymity preserved for a little longer.
http://moridura.blogspot.com
regards
Peter Curran
Edinburgh, Scotland
Posted by: Peter Curran | June 23, 2007 4:13 AM