Hiccups CERN has met while starting Big Bang machine
Hiccups that bother Big Bang machine The Sept. 19, 2008, failure of the Large Hadron Collider is costing 40 million Swiss francs ($40 million) to fix and it set back experiments for more than a year. But the world’s largest atom smasher has lesser hiccups to contend with: Physicist Stephen Hawking steps down as Lucasian professor at Cambridge, in UKLONDON — Physicist Stephen Hawking stepped down Wednesday as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University after 30 years in the post. Particle collider a year on: Black hole or crucial to understanding the universe?GENEVA —When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would suck in the world. It turns out the Hadron may be the black hole. CERN: damaged atom smasher will restart at half energy, but a new repair pause is neededGENEVA — When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would destroy the world. The world’s largest scientific machine, built at a cost of $10 billion, has worked only nine days and has yet to smash an atom. |
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