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Hadron Collider moment

In honor of the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, I hearby bestow upon the world the term “Hadron Collider moment”. This refers to events or moments that under normal circumstances shouldn’t happen but they did but they should’ve happened after the Hadron Collider was switched on which makes this September 10, 2008. This is what I call these moments to infer that the Hadron Collider has already turned our world upsidedown. We just haven’t noticed it yet.

Some examples include,

Sebastian Vettel’s F1 win at Monza.
The Wall Street Meltdown
The Xbox 360 outsells the PS3 in Japan
Jack Thompson disbarred

just to name a few.

If you know any more, do share.

2008: 09/29
POSTED BY: mdelamerced
CATEGORY: stuff
TAGS: CERN
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LHC, closed until spring

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Collider halted until next year

The damage caused by the helium leak last weekend has turned up a lot of problems. It wasn’t just a little liquid helium leak but a huge helium leak. About a ton of liquid helium leaked into the tunnel last week which caused the shutdown of the facility.

But with the incident coming so close to winter, the LHC will not power up until spring. CERN will shut the facility down for the winter in order to save on energy bills since it’s on high demand during the winter.

I don’t know why but I like monitoring any news about the LHC. Probably because if they succeed, they are almost for sure getting the Nobel prize among others. As well as one of the most important researches in physics in this generation.

That is if they don’t kill us all in the process. I kid! I hope.

2008: 09/24
POSTED BY: mdelamerced
CATEGORY: Uncategorized
TAGS: CERN
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It’s on! the LHC powers up!

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider started — are we still here? (updated with video) – Engadget

I just love CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. I think that it’s an important experiment and I wish all the scientists there good luck. True it may not destroy the world despite my previous blog entries but I’m happy that something like this can still be made today.

2008: 09/10
POSTED BY: mdelamerced
CATEGORY: Uncategorized
TAGS: CERN
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Doomsday machine to be switched on very soon

Large Hadron Collider Reminder: World Doesn’t End on Wednesday, and You Can Watch It Live

It’s September folks and what does that mean? It’s time for the Doomsday machine to be turned on!

Of course it’s not a “real” doomsday machine. I have the utmost respect for the scientists who made it. I really admire people who do a lot of things compared to those who do nothing. And when you think, think big. Now we have before us the product of their incredible brilliance.

You can watch all the action happening this week here.