LHC/Cern has Restarted Today - I was hoping this day would Never Come!

LHC/Cern has Restarted Today - I was hoping this day would Never Come!

I personally have Never liked the idea of this thing! I don't believe the scientist should be playing and "looking for the God Particle". The fact is they have said it will create black holes, but they believe the black holes will dissipate immediately. They do not Know that for sure! Besides that it is a magnet science experiment. Well, if you are not aware of the fact our magnetic field around the Earth has been decreasing, some say 10% others say 25%. We are lucky our sun has been at a solar minimum. I in fact am starting another blog that will be dedicated strictly for the magnetosphere and what is happening with it. It does not have any information on it yet, but it will, including pictures.

I always have in the back of my mind Nostradamus quatrain about Geneva too - will the Cern be what causes that to come true?

Article:

The first tests of injecting sub-atomic particles began around 1600 (1500 GMT)," CERN spokesman James Gillies told AFP.

He said the injections lasted a fraction of a second, enough for "a half or even a complete circuit" of the Large Hadron Collider built in a 27-kilometre (17-mile) long tunnel straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.

CERN's Director General Rolf Heuer said later the scientists had successfully managed to get particle beams once again circulating in the particle accelerator, and that they had been able to go ahead earlier than expected.

"It's great to see beam circulating in the LHC again... we've still got some way to go... but with this milestone we're well on the way."

The LHC circulated its first beams on September 10, 2008, but suffered a serious malfunction nine days later.

It said a failure in an electrical connection led to serious damage, and that scientists had spent the 14-months since repairing the machine.

The LHC promises to unlock scientific mysteries about the creation of the Universe and the fundamental nature of matter.

Since September 2008, the LHC's components have been tested to an energy equivalent of five teraelectronvolts at full power.

The maximum output of what is currently the largest functioning collider in the world, at the Fermilab near Chicago in the United States, is one teraelectronvolt.

CERN had said in August that upon its relaunch, the LHC would run at 3.5 teraelectronvolts in order to allow its operators to gain experience of running the machine.

The first data should be collected a few weeks after the first particle beam was fired.

CERN said the partial power level would be kept until "a significant data sample has been gathered" and ramped up thereafter.

Designed to shed light on the origins of the universe, the LHC at CERN took nearly 20 years to complete and cost six billion Swiss francs (3.9 billion euros, 4.9 billion dollars) to build.

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UPDATE 11/22/09 STORY OF CERN FROM REUTER:

GENEVA (Reuters) - After a year's delay, scientists at the world's biggest accelerator have restarted an experiment to recreate "Big Bang" conditions that had sparked suggestions the earth would be sucked in by millions of black holes.

Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have established circulating particle beams in both directions in the underground Large Hadron Collider, a step that is already beyond where the experiment stalled during a first attempt in September 2008, CERN spokesman James Gillies said.

The high-profile experiment, through which tiny particles are smashed in a bid to learn more about the birth of the universe, failed just nine days after it was launched due to a technical problem that took longer than expected to fix.

"We are further advanced now than where we were after five days of experiment last year," said CERN's Director for Accelerators Steve Myers, saying the extra year had allowed researchers to upgrade instrumentations and computer software.

Myers added that researchers had increased the sensitivity of the protections at the 10 billion Swiss franc ($9.82 billion) collider under the French-Swiss border.

"If anything happens, we would not have the same amount of damage we had last year," he said.

CERN, a 55-year-old organization that counts 10,000 scientists and technicians worldwide working on its research projects, has vigorously rebuffed any suggestion the ground-breaking experiment would cause the world to end.

CERN's Director General Rolf Heuer said getting the experiment re-started had been an "herculean effort."

"We've still got some way to go before physics can begin, but with this milestone we're well on the way," he said.

If things continue to progress at this speed, scientists may be able to accelerate particles at the highest energy level ever tested before Christmas, although high-energy collisions that may shed light on the secrets of the universe would only happen in the new year, Myers said.

The experiment will be fully under way when the particle beams will be smashed at high energy levels. This will most likely happen in January.

The next important step in the experiment will be low-energy collisions, expected in about a week from now, CERN said.

The experiment can be followed on twitter.com/cern.

(Writing by Lisa Jucca, Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)