02 October 2007

prospect magazine october issue

"Two weeks before I’d arrived, testing of the magnetic sections had been disrupted by an unexpected explosion. The machine filled with dust and helium. It turned out that Fermilab, the American suppliers of some of the magnets, had made basic errors in their engineering calculations, and the components they’d manufactured were unsafe. This meant that the opening of the LHC had to be postponed from autumn 2007 until spring 2008. As Fermilab, the national physics laboratory which built the faulty components, is Cern’s main rival in the race to find the Higgs particle, many eyebrows were raised"

asa se procedeaza in lumea fizicii avansate?
baga unu o surubelnitza in acceleratorul de particule al vecinului?

2 comments:

Immortal Ping said...

sa dai la gioale la ciclotronu' inamic, zau, nu e ok. pai sa nu pui hadronu' pe ei si sa le ciocnesti la caterinca particulele?

hai CERN, hai Europa!

dj plan b said...

da, da, si eu (europtimist fiind) tot cu CERN tin.