Very Cool LHC Pic

[Pangloss]

Very cool pic of the Large Hadron Collider on today's Astronomy Picture of the Day:

 

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080225.html

(That's a perma-link, so it should work even after "today".)

 

Pretty exciting that they're just about ready to fire that thing up. Almost makes me want to donate CPU cycles to the LHC@Home project.

[timo]

I don't think LHC@home is running anymore. Afaik, it was supposed to help designing the storage ring, not for analyzing the data of the detectors.

[ecoli]

that's quite impressive... what's the LHC@home project

 

edit: crossposted with Atheist... he pretty much answered this question.

[Severian]

I posted this a while ago: http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?p=380520#post380520

[Phi for All]

I posted this a while ago: http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?p=380520#post380520

You mean I have to hit that hole behind where you're standing?! I used to bullseye wamp-rats in my T-16 and they're not much bigger than 2 meters.

[timo]

You have to hit it from a distance of 27 km (which is also where the previously-mentioned LHC@home comes in)

[swansont]

You mean I have to hit that hole behind where you're standing?! I used to bullseye wamp-rats in my T-16 and they're not much bigger than 2 meters.

 

Use the electromagnetic force, Luke.

[Severian]

You mean I have to hit that hole behind where you're standing?! I used to bullseye wamp-rats in my T-16 and they're not much bigger than 2 meters.

 

Er... no. You have to hit the beam coming the other way, which is roughly 10 microns in diameter.

[thedarkshade]

I posted this a while ago: http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?p=380520#post380520

And I just wanted to say that as soon as I saw the thread:rolleyes:...