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[Stu]

... until the LHC is switched on, and science is either revolutionised or tweaked, we'll have to wait and see. In the meantime, here's a YouTube clip definitely worth watching...

LHC Rap

I know, I know.... usually I feel the same hatred for rap music I reserve for people who crunch crisps and nachos through movies or talk at the theatre, but this rap is a work of genius. It actually explains a lot of the science behind the project, and you can... shock horror... hear the words!!! Keep watching to the end credits, v funny what it says about the dancers...

[Tman]

An incident occurred at mid-day on Friday 19 Sep. resulting in a large helium leak into the tunnel. The needed repair is not a huge one, but it will be very time consuming because of the necessity of warming up the magnets to do it. Too time consuming to restart it before CERN’s obligatory winter maintenance period (that's because of electricity is more (too) expensive then). All that now puts off the date for restart of the accelerator complex into early spring 2009.

Btw. There's an informative blog from US staff members at the LHC.