LHC or BBM per BBC?

[AMDave]

The BBC have presented a nice interactive introduction to the LHC, but they have headlined it as the "BBM" or "The Big Bang Machine"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7543089.stm

It is a "tag" that they are propagating as the first non-test interactions approach
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/

It is a shame that they think that it is all for one "Big Bang" test and seem to have little idea of the rest of its purpose.

However, it is encouraging to see the BBC approaching this project in this way given the effect of their publicity machine that we observed on CPDN.

If they can get lots more people on board then I don't care what they think it is for.

[AMDave]

Oh.
And by the way, if we cease to exist this week, it had nothing to do with me this time.
I just want to be clear about that.

[Bender10]

Really?? You had nothing to do with that??

Where were you at 10:15 utc, on Tuesday the 9th of September??

Just pour the coffee down the sink, and "Don't Touch THAT LIGHT SWITCH!!!" said a voice from the closet.

Hmmm....

Another World saved with a timely interrvention by the "TIME LORDS" .......

Nothing to see here..move along.... You did't see anything....

[mitchellds]

heres a nice video also

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzug...eature=related

[AMDave]

Rumour has it that the countdown will be on the CERN page
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html

Looks like "kick off" is around 20hrs from now.

/edit -
Just watched "Hot Docs" from BBC Horizon.
A well presented explanation of the science and theory as it has eveolved and the puzzles they now have.
Now I see why they are focussed on the "Big Bang Machine" reference.
- edit/

[Bubben]

Yes!

It starts today!

2008-09-10

Prepare your engines..!

Wrooomm..wrooomm..

[Danish Dynamite]

well we are still all here i guess or am i in my own universe ? lol

[AMDave]

ha ha ha

No collisions today,
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/Press.../PR08.08E.html
but plenty of diagnostics!

LHC@home is sending out SixTrack work at the moment as promised now that they have live feedback on the performance of the magnets etc.

The sooner the LHC@home work queue is done the sooner the magnets will be tuned and they can bring on the collisions will.

This is is not a test.
This is science in real-time.
What more could we ask for?
So ... get cracking

[AMDave]

from the LHC@home front page:

10.09.2008 09:30 BST -
Live from CERN - News from the guy wearing an LHC@home t-shirt
Things have gone far better than expected. It took LEP, the previous giant accelerator, 12 hours to get to this stage.
Beam is now being injected every 48s, and going around about 3 times. They're working on optimizing the parameters of all the focussing elements, this uses a lot of the information that LHC@home volunteers have helped provide through the millions of simulations they have run.
Once they've 'cleaned up the beam', they'll try sending the beam around the other way. Then they'll work on getting the beam dumps operating properly, so they can get rid of the beam in a controlled way (at present, since it is a very low energy beam, it is just being allowed to decay as it goes around the ring, but that could do damage for more intense beams). They may get to interleaving the two beams later today, but collisions are not on the cards.
Lyn Evans (the LHC project director) looks jubiliiant!

[Danish Dynamite]

i have allowed work on boinc on all comps for lhc@home