Let’s welcome David Berenstein, physics Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, to the blogosphere. David is a particle physics/stringy sort of theorist, and I encourage you to drop by and check out his new blog, Shores of the Dirac Sea.
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September 10th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
If the protons in the LHC travel at almost the speed of light why does the LHC Beam take so long to traverse the circumference of the LHC? Please Explain
Thank You
Gerald Hooper
September 10th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Mark,
Thanks for the shout. Now I’m swamped! How do you handle it all?
September 10th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Welcome, David! Mostly we ignore it.
Gerald, the only reason it took so long for the beam to go around the LHC is because they kept stopping it to check that all was well. Under ordinary operations, it will take a microblink for a bunch of protons to zip around.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
U guys are ultra cool.
September 11th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Moshe Rozali has joined in.