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Hadron Collider restart delayed...again

tech.uk.msn.com — The planned restart of the world's largest atom smasher has been delayed, its operator said. Scientists have to carry out further tests and put in place more safety measures to prevent a repeat of the faults which sidelined the 10 billion-dollar (£6 billion) machine shortly after start-up last year.

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  • wonderchemist, on 07/05/2009, -9/+122Great, at this rate they won't get full energy collision until 2012.
  • inactive, on 07/05/2009, -2/+105As anxious as I am to smash atoms and create tiny black holes, I can be patient to do it "right".
  • bigp3rm, on 07/05/2009, -2/+86That thing has to have some serious blue balls by now.
  • DjOverEZ, on 07/05/2009, -0/+70Nah. Even though it had to stop abruptly twice, it's still got a Hadron.
  • Nudar, on 07/05/2009, -13/+66So that's why the world ends in 2012.
  • inactive, on 07/05/2009, -2/+49These guys need some MIGHTY PUTTY to fix the leaks!
  • twishart, on 07/05/2009, -6/+52We'll never cause the planet to implode at this rate....
  • killerofkiller, on 07/05/2009, -1/+38The man who traveled back in time to stop the LHC must be succeeding.
  • born, on 07/05/2009, -4/+36Where is your God particle now>
  • PanicAK, on 07/05/2009, -3/+33Delayed till December 2012.
  • inactive, on 07/05/2009, -3/+31This just in: CERN receives shipment of 2.2 metric tons of Viagra

    Will have reactor up in no time.
  • eifersucht12a, on 07/05/2009, -0/+27It's obvious at this point they're just trolling. :|
  • TrueJournals, on 07/05/2009, -2/+28That was a joke.
    Ha ha. Fat chance.
  • morphinapg, on 07/05/2009, -3/+26If the LHC needed stopping, there would be no one left to travel back to stop it...
  • colonelcupcake, on 07/05/2009, -2/+24These comments are not of a high quality
  • noahtron, on 07/05/2009, -3/+23NICE.
  • LilJimmyNordin, on 07/05/2009, -7/+25Maybe we'll find someone else to help us.
    Maybe Black Mesa?
  • Dromeciomimus, on 07/05/2009, -1/+15Quick, someone call Spock.
  • linkmandx, on 07/06/2009, -0/+14I'm noticing a small discrepancy in the... no, it's well within containment parameters.
  • iamdegenatron, on 07/05/2009, -0/+12Hurry up, I'm going soft!
  • Iwantawii, on 07/05/2009, -0/+11Two hardons run a circle in opposite directions and then collide? Man, you're into some crazy *****!
  • AddictedToMosh, on 07/05/2009, -2/+13yes! more time to get a girlfriend
  • Paulorific, on 07/05/2009, -0/+11Nudar, I think that's what wonderchemist was getting at.
  • lightningrod220, on 07/06/2009, -0/+11http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
  • AmnesiacJack, on 07/05/2009, -2/+12***** you all for judging me I can't help it that I love science so much it hurts.
  • chessthecat, on 07/06/2009, -2/+10What a piece of *****.
  • vogelshock, on 07/05/2009, -2/+10Dugg, even though pretty lame comment . . . but I just can't get enough Billy Mays references!
  • Sloi, on 07/06/2009, -0/+8Anyway, this cake is great: it's so delicious and moist.
  • themastersb, on 07/05/2009, -2/+9http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/d/d ... nsfw
  • cerejota, on 07/06/2009, -0/+7look at you still talking, when there's science to do
  • noahtron, on 07/05/2009, -2/+9god does not play hide and seek.
  • Ramble, on 07/05/2009, -0/+7You can't predict what will yield good research and what wont.
  • AddictedToMosh, on 07/05/2009, -2/+8Clearly you know nothing about physics and how gravity works.
    First of all the "tiny" black holes created aren't tiny at all, they will be on an atomic scale so smaller than a nucleus of an atom. Just to clarify the meaning of tiny.
    Secondly as we know the size of the "tiny black holes" doesn't matter but the mass because thats how gravity works, by mass. Now the mass of these black holes will be around the mass of a small nucleus so it will exert about the same amount of gravitational attraction as a helium atom, which is NOTHING! Because of the inverse square law and it having a tiny tiny mass 10^(-27) kg, the tiny black hole won't be able to absorb matter i.e energy and will just evaporate because it won't be able to sustain itself.
    Gravity is the weakest force the black holes in space have such great gravitational fields only because of their enormous mass concentrated in a small space.
  • Omek, on 07/05/2009, -2/+8how convenient...
  • beaversprite, on 07/06/2009, -1/+7...or harness electricity, or vaccinate for polio, or scan your body for cancer, or... yeah, scientists suck. So long, digg. I'm smashing my computer and living in a yurt in Montana. Enjoy your death trap, suckers!
  • martage, on 07/06/2009, -0/+6End of the world delayed... again
  • mithrasinvictus, on 07/06/2009, -1/+6I always knew it would be some scientist saying "i wonder what would happen when i do this..."
  • inactive, on 07/06/2009, -2/+7This thing isn't a black hole factory. If we could create black holes by smashing particles, we would have done it already with the relativistic heavy ion collider. The RHIC deals with heavier particles and heavier particles = greater chance of making a world destroying black hole.


    We've smash billions of particles per day with that machine and haven't yet produced a killer black hole or even a microscopic hole.
  • Tripacer9999, on 07/05/2009, -2/+7Playing hide and seek.
  • Sethbacca, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4The last thing you need is scientists getting cocky when colliding hardons.
  • ousthouse, on 07/05/2009, -4/+8Of course not... You can always trust scientists. Remember all of the wonderful things that happened after they figured out how to split an atom?
  • MaTT2011, on 07/05/2009, -5/+9It'll be worth the wait. Discovering truth always is.
  • Lobsterfish, on 07/05/2009, -4/+8Good news for Fermilab
  • treas, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4you must be high as *****
  • kitsua, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4As far as I'm concerned the LHC is one of the most important news stories and I rely on digg to keep me up to date most of the time, so I, for one, am glad for these updates.
  • kolobcreek, on 07/06/2009, -1/+5*****!!!! I hate it when the postpone the end of the world.
  • AmnesiacJack, on 07/06/2009, -1/+5You assume it destroys everything, and while it certainly does come close, I can assure you that Kansas and Missouri survive in some form or another. It took us 200 years to reform and send some one one back, but it must done if humanity is to survive as you know it.
  • luckless, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4yes! more time to level up in battlefield heroes
  • linkmandx, on 07/06/2009, -1/+5The possibility of a resonance cascade scenario are tiny, don't worry.
  • treas, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3The only thing velcro has done for me is make me cringe.
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