The New York Times takes a look at the problems that have plagued the Large Hadron Collider since its turn-on last September. What the article doesn’t mention is that about a year ago some people were worrying that the launch of the LHC would literally lead to the destruction of the universe. That kind of puts the current wave of technical problems in perspective.
In other CERN-blogging, why not revisit this post I did when I was in Switzerland:
My group had a chance to talk to the head of CERN yesterday. Mostly his talk and our discussion focused on the Large Hadron Collider and also some organization aspects of CERN. He did, however, mention that the work that led to the development of the World Wide Web was done at CERN. He also said that when CERN realized this Web concept was promising, they tried to put it up for sale. But nobody was interested. And since nobody was interested, they released their work to the public for free and one thing led to another and now we have the Web we all know and love.
Scary!
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