Anyone know what happened with the LHC startup that was supposed to happen this week?

[tridim]

I'm kind of shocked at the lack of news on the official sites. Last time I checked the countdown (last week) it was at 4 days. Now it's at 27 days. http://www.lhcountdown.com/

What the heck is going on?

Did they already turn it on and go back in time or something? :)

[Dogmudgeon]

1. I heard it would be August 1st

And http://www.misunderstooduniverse.com/France_Builds_Doomsday_Machine.htm">the world will be destroyed by being sucked into a black hole created by the device. (There's a cool video there, too.)

They had intended to build such a device in Texas, but they realized that Texas had aready produced a "hole" with the capability of destroying the world.

--p!

[Posteritatis]

4. The FUD level of that article is completely ridiculous. (nt)

[DavidDvorkin]

2. The world was destroyed

We're all just software daemons running on a CPU floating free in space.

[Indenturedebtor]

3. Lol no doubt n/t

[bananas]

5. They turned it on, created a worm, and we went back in time.

This time, it won't be turned for another month.

[rayofreason]

6. We all died...

...or didn't.

With no one around, who can make the observation and collapse the wave function?

[Indenturedebtor]

9. HAH one flaw with your theory...

You forgot about the Space Hamsters. They've been watching us for generations.

[MicaelS]

7. Our alien overlords called....

Said turning it on at this time would be a bad idea. :bounce: :hide:

[patriotvoice]

8. 3-August-2008 - Short sector test, start of beam commissioning

More on the injection testing:
http://lhc-injection-test.web.cern.ch/lhc-injection-test

Hardware Commissioning Coordination schedules:
http://hcc.web.cern.ch/hcc/meetings_schedules

Commissioning schedule:
http://lhc-commissioning.web.cern.ch/lhc-commissioning

Looks like it will be as late as October before 10TeV reached. 14TeV won't be attempted until 2009.