Posted on 04/08/2007 8:55:49 AM PDT by LibWhacker
It lifted a 20-ton magnet off its mountings, filling a tunnel with helium gas and forcing an evacuation.
Imagine a crowd of workers emerging from a tunnel with the smoke roiling out behind them, all squeaking "run away" in helium voices.
It appears Fermilab made elementary mistakes in the design of the magnets and their anchors that made them insecure once the system was operational.
The self-esteem factor was off by three orders of magnitude.
Coincidentally, Fermilab stands to gain most from delays at Cern. Its researchers also operate a rival but less powerful particle accelerator, the Tevatron.
"I smell a rat, a great big Fermi rat," said the CERN director. (with apologies to George C. Scott)
Fermilab staff are pushing the Tevatron to ever-higher energies hoping that they might find the Higgs boson before the LHC switches on. An LHC researcher said: “Ironically, this delay could be all they need.”
Which Fermilab engineer gets the employee of the year award for this one?
“It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!”
I guess they haven’t created anti-matter yet or the place would cease to exist. (reference to Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons”)
The machine, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), aims to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang,
well, based on what they want to do, I’d say they’re off to a good start on a smaller scale..
Alright, who forgot to put new batteries in the calculator?
This would be the smoke test. Didn’t they have an old cigar-chewing railroad engineer available? You know, the kind that looks at a trestle bridge and says: that’ll hold.
-Scotty.
I remember how embarrassed I was when that happened during my first attempt to build a particle accelerator.
I wonder if these scientists can pump their own gas.
You said: The machine, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), aims to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang, well, based on what they want to do, I’d say they’re off to a good start on a smaller scale..
My thought: Maybe that’s how the first one happened . Some scientists tried to reproduce the big bang and BANG. Every 15 billion years a reset button.
Fermilab staff are pushing the Tevatron to ever-higher energies hoping that they might find the Higgs boson before the LHC switches on. An LHC researcher said: “Ironically, this delay could be all they need.”
It's a conspiracy, but what are the girlie men in Europe going to do about it, have the UN send us a strongly worded letter?
Good grief. An explosion in Europe's accelerator, and it's traced back to us.
PROFESSOR: WHAT HAPPEN?
ASSISTANT: WE SET UP US THE BOMB.
LOL
Let’s see.......Magnets are used to simulate the effects of gravity, to direct the SAP and control their directional course, then, how in the Universe, does this simulate the Singularity from which at the time of the “Big Bang”, there was no gravity?
Questions, questions, certain things just require faith.
LOLOLOLOL. Spot on analysis.
(”Helium voices.” LOLOLOLOL)
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