I was reading about the Large Hadron Collider and ran across this sentence:
He added: “Our motto is: no short cuts?
And thought — really? Cause if you look at the whole paragraph:
He added: “Our motto is: no short cuts? exchanging a single component which today is cold, is like bringing it back from the Moon. It takes about three to four weeks to warm it up. Then it takes one or two weeks to exchange. Then it needs three to six weeks to cool down again.
It would seem that short cuts would be out of the question. Which the question mark suggests is not the case.
Pesky punctuation.
- The date in the book shows I bought this in 2000. I don't remember reading it, and the first couple of pages didn't exactly change that.
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I think that’s the first article I’ve ever read about the LHC that doesn’t contain a comment about how they travel through the tunnels by bicycle.
I’d also been amused by recurring coverage in the NYTimes about the possibility of it generating a black hole that would swallow the earth, which Slate commented on a few weeks back: http://www.slate.com/id/2194503/
(Honestly, I’ve been trying to push off some very painful work-related work a bit, just in case it becomes irrelevant in a few more weeks…)
Don’t worry Eileen, according to Professor Rossler’s theory, if slow moving micro black holes are created, you would have at least 50 months if not 50 years before it could actually grow large enough to be “a problem”. Assuming theories that “Reverse Hawking Radiation” would not speed up the growth process. (That pesky dark energy!)
It is a bit disconcerting that CERN’s Scientific Policy Committee called the new neutron star and cosmic ray arguments “unverified”. (Pesky magnetic fields protecting neutron stars?)
Either way, nothing to worry about in the coming weeks…
“slow moving micro black holes”??? if we do get them these could be THE Christmas Gift. Is LHC in touch with The Sharper Image?
Anyway, Eileen, sounds like you’ll have to tackle that work after all.
Thanks for swinging by, Tankers.
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