14Sep Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider
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Hackers have mounted an attack on the Large Hadron Collider, raising concerns about the security of the biggest experiment in the world as it passes an important new milestone.
The scientists behind the £4.4bn atom smasher had already received threatening emails and been besieged by telephone calls from worried members of the public [...]
13Sep What Happened When They Turned on the LHC?
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What happened yesterday when Cern switched on the Large Hadron Collider? Scientists accelerated protons - the nuclei of hydrogen atoms - into the LHC’s 27km underground ring for the first time. In the morning the particles travelled clockwise around the $8bn circular track, almost at the speed of light, guided by superconducting [...]
13Sep LHC Suicide by Indian Girl
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A girl in India has committed suicide after watching TV reports that a physics experiment could bring about the end of the world, her family says.
Sixteen-year-old Chaya poisoned herself at her home in the central city of Indore, her father, Bihari Lal, said.
He said Chaya had been worried the “world [...]
13Sep CERN LHC HACKED BY SECURITY TEAM
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NEW DELHI: When the whole world’s attention was on the much-publicised `Big Bang‘ on September 10 — particle collider tests are actually a few weeks away — a motley group of `grey hat’ hackers from Greece managed to crack into CERN’s (The European Organisation for Nuclear Research) network.
Though the hackers did not [...]
13Sep LHC Doesnt Destroy World…Yet
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It was the week the world was supposed to end. Only it didn’t – or at least it hasn’t yet. Paul Rowland explains why we were right to be scared of the Large Hadron Collider – but only to a point…
So the world didn’t end then…
Not quite, no. Meaning that those of [...]
12Sep Large Hadron Collider Has Black Hole Button
Though the Large Hadron Collider didn’t kill us when those crazy CERN scientists closed their eyes, said a prayer, recited a few theorems and switched it on for the first time, the secret is that it could have killed us. When they built the collider, the scientists installed a black-hole creation button. (The button is [...]
12Sep Large Hadron Collider Switch-on Fears Are Completely Unfounded, Report Finds
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A new report provides the most comprehensive evidence available to confirm that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)’s switch-on, due on Wednesday next week, poses no threat to mankind. Nature’s own cosmic rays regularly produce more powerful particle collisions than those planned within the LHC, which will enable [...]
12Sep LHC Crash Course in Particle Collision
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN,
has its offices on the outskirts of Geneva, in an area once devoted to
dairy farms and now given over to sprawl. The offices occupy several
dozen buildings, some of them in Switzerland and the remainder, a few
hundred yards away, in France. The buildings are reachable [...]
12Sep CERN Large Hadron Collider Explained
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A video giving a tour of the LHC (underground accelerator) at CERN. Measuring 27km in circumference, it will become the world’s largest particle accelerator. The first beams are due for injection mid-June 2008 with the first collisions planned to take place 2 months later. The LHC will become the [...]
12Sep What is the LHC?
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An international team is currently installing the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in a 27-kilometer ring buried deep below the countryside on the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland. When its operations begin in 2008, the LHC will be the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. Scientists predict that its very-high-energy proton collisions will yield [...]
