Comments on: LHC photoshoot

By: El Gran Colisionador de Hadrones (II) « Pasa la vida

El Gran Colisionador de Hadrones (II) « Pasa la vida — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:16:40 +0000

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By: Bodi Thung

Bodi Thung — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:22:34 +0000

OK, I’m missing something.
The caption reads:
“The Magnet Core
Winding the solenoid coil of the CMS took five years to complete. When it is fully operational, it will generate a magnetic field 100,000 times stronger than the one produced by the Earth.”
Where does this explain why the image is blurred?

By: Coffeeassured

Coffeeassured — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:48:00 +0000

From what I have heard there are some MRI machines that get up to about 2-3T and there hasn’t been any kind of obvious damage to patients (yet) but there are some concerns about what high strength might do someones health. Though in this case I think it is probably somewhat academic as from what I understand the hallway will be bathed with all kinds of interesting radiation once everything it up and running.

By: CafeenMan

CafeenMan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:13:07 +0000

Ok, now I feel like an idiot. I totally forgot you have a forum.

By: CafeenMan

CafeenMan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:09:01 +0000

Phil – I’m a regular reader of your blog and sometimes poster. I apologize for the O/T but I keep thinking of questions I want to ask and you don’t have a place for that.

So I’d like to propose you have a place for people like me to post our questions and you can start a topic on them if you think they’re interesting enough.

I read your e-mail page and don’t want to bombard you with more. I get a lot of it myself and often delete real mail accidentally so I don’t see why it can’t happen to me.

Lastly, for quite some time now, my posts are flagged for moderation as potential spam.

I’m pretty sure it has something to do with my e-mail/website combination. But a lot of times my comments don’t get posted until way later so I’m functionally not a part of the conversation. I don’t know if you can fix that or not.

Thanks for the great blog!

By: Sanity

Sanity — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:54:00 +0000

Also, does anyone know if they will set up some kind of distributed computing system? I’ve got some spare cycles that i’m willing to donate to science.

(the World Community Grid will just have to settle for half my overhead)

By: Sanity

Sanity — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:47:32 +0000

Well, if it’s 100.000 times stronger then the 0.00005 Tesla field of the earth, that puts it at 5 T

A 3 Tesla MRI is strong enough to do this to a chair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uzJPpC4Wuk

So I asume standing near the active LHC with a pacemaker or metal on your bones will be… how to describe it… Chestburster like.