September 10th 2008 - Cern LHC switch on
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 tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 
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Big surprise the webcast still isn't up. I saw mention of them using evo, but halfway through setting evo up I got too freaked out and stopped. Weird program with many errors on pages and incorrect certificates. Seems a bit strange for a multi billion dollar project to use something so cheap. It says that you can use either WindowsMedia or FlashPlayer. I use Linux and can see both streams with Mplayer and FlashPlayer. If the stream is bad I shall switch to the BOINC tutorial session in Grenoble. Tomorrow is the start of the BOINC Workshop, with both David Anderson and Bruce Allen speaking. Tullio ID: 806631 ·  |
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1
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This is all I could see: Due to a huge interest for this live video feed of the LHC First Beam day, you may not be able to see the live video stream and we apologise for this. Please try reloading the page, come back later, or check the other connection options available on this page. Many thanks for your interest in CERN and the LHC! ID: 806640 · |
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beaxme Send message Joined: 14 Jul 03 Posts: 5 Credit: 4,075,899 RAC: 0 
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Keith T.  Send message Joined: 23 Aug 99 Posts: 962 Credit: 537,293 RAC: 9 
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If you are in the UK, BBC Radio 4 is doing a whole day of broadcasts from CERN. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/programmes.shtml will take you to the guide. I think most of this will be webcast too. Also for those in Western Europe, you may be able to receive Radio 4 on 198 kHz AM Long Wave (1500m).  Sir Arthur C Clarke 1917-2008
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1
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If you are in the UK, BBC Radio 4 is doing a whole day of broadcasts from CERN. Thanks, but I 've gone to the BOINC Workshop in Grenoble, where my Linux-Seamonkey-Mplayer-Mplayerplug-in combination works beautifully and allows me to see a tutorial. Tullio ID: 806650 · |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21514 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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The first beam has gone round all 27km: Working LHC produces first images Protons have made their first complete lap of the world’s most powerful accelerator to cheers and high fives from assembled physicists. At 1025 (local time) scientists sent a single beam of protons in a clockwise direction around the full 27 kilometres of the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. The journey began at 0930 when LHC project leader Lyn Evans and his team launched protons into the ring. Progress was made in short steps of a few kilometres, so that physicists could learn how to steer the beam... See also: CERN: News on LHC start-up Let the particles flow! Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 806664 · |
squishymaster  Send message Joined: 21 Oct 03 Posts: 34 Credit: 784,496 RAC: 0 
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Now that it is the next morning and not 2am, I have been watching the webcast so it is of course up now. Though by the previous post I may have just gone to bed a few minutes too early. ID: 806690 · |
champ  Send message Joined: 12 Mar 03 Posts: 3642 Credit: 1,489,147 RAC: 0
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Good news. The earth is still alive. LOL Lots of people though, they will create a black hole, and destroy the earth. ID: 806713 · |
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1
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Good news. The earth is still alive. LOL Yes, but head-on collisions between clockwise and counterclockwise protons have not yet occurred. So we are safe, for a while. Cheers. Tullio ID: 806715 · |
Fuzzy Hollynoodles  Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
Good news. The earth is still alive. LOL No, Judgment Day was not today, it will be in a couple of weeks. I'm not worried about a black hole to absorb us, then we all will be gone, no, I'm more worried about eventual strangelings to be created, so maybe life is not what we supposed it to be here on Earth in a few weeks? Maybe Star Trek won't be fiction then but reality? LOL "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me 
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wombleme Send message Joined: 7 Sep 08 Posts: 1 Credit: 281 RAC: 0
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Dirk Villarreal Wittich  Send message Joined: 25 Apr 00 Posts: 2098 Credit: 434,834 RAC: 0 
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The same in Russian!----->áðüыù üðÑÂштðñýыù ÑÂúÑÂÿõрøüõýт ÑÂþòрõüõýýþÑÂтø-÷ðÿуÑÂú Ñþûьшþóþ ðôрþýýþóþ úþûûðùôõрð/The biggest (in size/scale) experiment in present days-The start of the Large Hadron Collider Click on the small window/picture on the top right to start the stream....thanks. You can follow the speaker by reading the text next to the right.   
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squishymaster Send message Joined: 21 Oct 03 Posts: 34 Credit: 784,496 RAC: 0
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I'm mostly worried about what they haven't thought of as far as escaping reactions. I have to wonder if large scale tests will send out unwanted signals into space that may be perceivable by aliens. Strange thought I know, but you never know. ID: 806785 · |
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Dirk Villarreal Wittich Send message Joined: 25 Apr 00 Posts: 2098 Credit: 434,834 RAC: 0
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I'm mostly worried about what they haven't thought of as far as escaping reactions. I have to wonder if large scale tests will send out unwanted signals into space that may be perceivable by aliens. Strange thought I know, but you never know. I think those signals will take a long time to reach other worlds....remember the case of the Phoenix sonde on Mars: it takes about 40 minutes for just one way back to Earth/Mars. As said before by scientists and physicists, the LHC is boringly the same experiment as Nature has been producing since the beginning of time/Big Bang: the difference is this time we have more control over it, so we can see what happens, like the different laboratories at CERN and the computer grid system to analyze the results, which, by the way, will take some years from now. It is also interesting to know that at CERN there´s now the coldest place in the Solar System...the -271 degrees Celsius or 1.5 degrees Kelvin, which is the coldest temperature that can be reached at all; and the hottest place in the Milky Way Galaxy, with billions of degrees Celsius, far more that the core of our Sun. All this has been achieved in a controlled way.
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1
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Physicists are insatiable for energy. Now that LHC has started, they are already planning a bigger machine, to be built in Russia. See this article on CERN Courier: ILC Tullio ID: 806794 · |
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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
It looks like you must have BOINC 5.10.45 to run LHC@home. No 6.x allowed. I learned this from the LHC home page. It looks like they have resolved the issue they had with 6.* BOINC, I now have a LHC WU in my cache, and my BOINC client is 6.2.16. I guess they are testing before the real thing. "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me
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Keck_Komputers  Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 1575 Credit: 4,152,111 RAC: 1
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It looks like they have resolved the issue they had with 6.* BOINC, I now have a LHC WU in my cache, and my BOINC client is 6.2.16. Actually 6.2.18 resolves the issues LHC was having, please upgrade. BOINC WIKI   BOINCing since 2002/12/8 ID: 807199 · |
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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
It looks like they have resolved the issue they had with 6.* BOINC, I now have a LHC WU in my cache, and my BOINC client is 6.2.16. Will do. Thanks. :-) ----- Done! "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me
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Yon  Send message Joined: 21 Aug 08 Posts: 39 Credit: 19,892 RAC: 0 
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Even the upgrade plan is come out for LHC. the machine will stop a while and run the upgrade operation at 2013 and finish at 2015-2016,from the news,the machine will be more powerful,sensitive and 10xefficiency. The next generation collider ILC (International Linear Collider) where it going we don't know. We don't having any capable to product such terrible unknown particle and destroy our solar system.What we capable in near term is send a man to cycle the planet jupiter and back without landing and not such create mini-black-hole or something. æ„›ï¹Âä»Âï¹Âå¿Âï¹Âå–„ï¹Â勇 Any people can sense their die just a couple of their live ID: 809448 · |
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Dirk Villarreal Wittich Send message Joined: 25 Apr 00 Posts: 2098 Credit: 434,834 RAC: 0
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The "Big-Bang machine" will be out of service for two months because of a breakdown---->Helium leaking
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