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You can now get your CERN info in PODCAST form via the Cern Podcast Website.
I post this in good faith that you will still come here to Hadron Hater because you love the witty comentary.

Posted on October 14th, 2008 under news. Tags: Add new tag, news. Comments: None

The Columbus Dispatch has a nice article by Kevin Mayhood called Rock The Universe where among other things they spell out what all those crazy detector acronyms stand for, and what each detector aims to do.
LHC: Large Hadron Collider (duh?)
ATLAS: A Toroidal LHC Apparatus
CMS: Compact Muon Solenoid
ALICE: A Large Ion Collider Experiment
I think it is [...]

Posted on September 25th, 2008 under news. Tags: news. Comments: None

For the haters out there, add two more months to wait for Armageddon.
For everyone else, add two more months to the time we wait to find out if the Higgs Boson exists. 
Ctv.ca Damage to new collider forces two-month halt
Doesn’t helium always leak? It is the second smallest atom! Hydrogen is smaller but since [...]

Posted on September 24th, 2008 under news. Tags: news. Comments: None

Swissinfo.ch reports Electrical fault halts “Big Bang” machine. Scientists at CERN report that a failure in an electrical transformer has affected a refrigeration plant at the LHC. Without proper refrigeration the Super conducting magnets that steer the proton beam cannot function. The issue has been fixed but CERN has not stated when the beam will [...]

Posted on September 18th, 2008 under news. Tags: news. Comments: None

Telegraph.co.uk reports that Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider. The ne’er-do-wells, a group calling themselves the “Greek Security Team”, posted files on one of the LHC systems and changed the web page at the cmsmon.cern.ch website which was, and still may be, unreachable from the outside world for security purposes. The bad men, I don’t like [...]

Posted on September 12th, 2008 under hater, news. Tags: hater, news. Comments: None