Comments on: Chamonix Summary @ CERN

By: Worth Reading « Not Even Wrong

Worth Reading « Not Even Wrong — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:18:09 +0000

[...] CERN, here’s a report from JoAnne Hewett about the summary session discussing the Chamonix workshop on the state of the [...]

By: luis sancho

luis sancho — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:32:42 +0000

Lol, they are in a kamikaze hurry to shoot the quark canon russian roulette to eearth before the Fermi proves ad nauseam black holes dont evaporate, before they prove ad nauseam that pulsars are quark star pulsars, before theorists prove ad nauseam that with 10.000 strong quarks you start an ice-9 reaction (as per weng and chen)and some intelligent politicians (yes i know that is an oxymoron), make the calculus: 1 million strange quarks per second and 10000 blow up the earth? uh!, maybe maybe we should unplug?! those nerds?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:33:49 +0000

I still don’t understand why CERN wants to run during the winter, instead of just taking their time, saving money, and being careful. It seems that the real motivation is to make sure Fermilab doesn’t find the Higgs first.

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:52:18 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/Chamonix2009

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:57:49 +0000

“A lot.”

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:24:06 +0000

Won’t the savings from not having run the machine for most of this year cover the extra costs of running through the winter? In any case, I should have thought that 8M Euros is a drop in the bucket when compared with the cost of having repaired the current problem. How many times is the LHC allowed to fail before the various governments pull the plug on it?