What news from the LHC?

[Airbrush]

They just started up 3-30-10 to 3 times the previous power record. When will we hear some news? They keep repeating their mantras about finding the God Particle Higgs boson, a scientific revolution. And just what else is inside matter? Higher dimensions?

 

It seems like it will take a long time before anything new is revealed.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_518196.html

[John Cuthber]

Are you saying that you could do it quicker?

[Icefire]

I'm beginning to think that they are being constantly sabotaged, or that the Universe is trying to prevent the machine from activating because the LHC can destroy the world. Or they could just be experiencing a lot of setbacks, who knows?

[Arch2008]

You might have more luck here than at the Huffington-Post:

http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/

Now that the media event is over, the day-to-day work continues.

[Airbrush]

Thanks for the link Arch. I must sound like a kid on his way to the amusement park, "Are we almost there yet, are we almost there?"

 

Since they will not even turn up the LHC to full power for several years, we can expect to hear something interesting within the next what? Months or Years? What do they see already? Collisions began on March 29th. They've had a few days and there are "dozens" of technicians working on it. Are there 24 hour shifts?

[insane_alien]

if you can find a quick way to analyse a metric assload of data for a tiny tiny signal i'm sure CERN would be happy to hear it.

 

you'll need to wait a year or so until human parsable results appear.

 

the computers while completely kickass and god like still take a LOOONNNNGGGGG time to churn throught the massive quantities of data generated each time a group of particles collides.

 

and then you have to sift through the procesed data for events that are actually interesting rather than the boring old already discovered types. and then you have to make sure there's enough of the interesting bits to ensure that its really there and not just a coincidence.

 

science isn't like CSI's 10-second DNA analysis, the real stuff takes time.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

science isn't like CSI's 10-second DNA analysis, the real stuff takes time.

 

I just got out of the lab after five hours, so I can attest to this. Agh.

[Airbrush]

That sounds good Mr. Alien. So that means over a year from now there may be something interesting to report, and a year after they crank it up full power several years from now, there might be a God particle, or something, after 4 years.

 

What if they don't find anything new?

 

This is like waiting for the Kepler mission to report on Earth-like planets.

[insane_alien]

if they don't find anything new then that is a discovery in itself and it means we can discount a LOT of competing theories as more than a few predict that the LHC should find something new. if it doesn't find anything then these theories are wrong and can be scrapped.