Gary that is a very silly post and you know damn well it is, without me needing to tell you.

I'm so glad you should understand your previous post now.

If you look at the history, they have had major operational problems with it from day 1. How would you have done it better?

I'd keep my mouth shut about minor issues involving R&D into the unknown. As to the mis-manufactured part, which is what seems to have rankled you, when you build custom items by hand the failure rate is going to be higher and they did not have to build it to maned spaceflight specifications. I'm sure you would have willingly ponied up the additional tax monies to upgrade to those specifications!

Look at NASA. They lost 40% of the shuttles and none of the shuttles made it to their design lifespan of 100 launches.

I think you actually have your expectations set too high.

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Gary that is a very silly post and you know damn well it is, without me needing to tell you.

I'm so glad you should understand your previous post now.

If you look at the history, they have had major operational problems with it from day 1. How would you have done it better?

I'd keep my mouth shut about minor issues involving R&D into the unknown. As to the mis-manufactured part, which is what seems to have rankled you, when you build custom items by hand the failure rate is going to be higher and they did not have to build it to maned spaceflight specifications. I'm sure you would have willingly ponied up the additional tax monies to upgrade to those specifications!

Look at NASA. They lost 40% of the shuttles and none of the shuttles made it to their design lifespan of 100 launches.

I think you actually have your expectations set too high.

Now this is a rarity: To give a positive acknowledgement to a Charpentier post...


Further:

Note for such first-of-a-kind extreme engineering and extreme design... That the LHC works at all is phenomenal! All the more so for needing to be synchronized to the world's previously only-one-in-the-world most powerful accelerators that are now used as the start-up generators!

Can you blink with sub-nanosecond precision, billions of times a second, for years?


Chris: I'm very sure you would suffer a very bad mess if you tried to run your pipework and wiring at liquid helium temperatures and extremes of power whilst still requiring superconducting conditions and all despite extreme radiation.

And all with no maintenance possible for a year or few years at a time...


Makes all the silliness of IT and Marketing look pathetically trivial.

All in our only one planet,
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See new freedom: Mageia Linux
Take a look for yourself: Linux Format
The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3)

The 'improvements' the LHC underwent:

http://press.web.cern.ch/backgrounders/lhc-season-2-stronger-machine

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Update:

CERN experiment brings precision to a cornerstone of particle physics

Geneva, 11 February 2015. In a paper published yesterday in the journal Physical Review Letters, the COMPASS experiment at CERN1 reports a key measurement on the strong interaction. The strong interaction binds quarks into protons and neutrons, and protons and neutrons into the nuclei of all the elements from which matter is built. Inside those nuclei, particles called pions made up of a quark and an antiquark mediate the interaction. Strong interaction theory makes a precise prediction on the polarisability of pions – the degree to which their shape can be stretched. This polarisability has baffled scientists since the 1980s, when the first measurements appeared to be at odds with the theory.

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Gluons are the carriers of the strong force between the quarks. They exist in three versions, called colors: red green and blue. Quarks exist in six types.
Professor Higgs says he did not believe in the existence of quarks until the Seventies.
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Gluons are the carriers of the strong force between the quarks. They exist in three versions, called colors: red green and blue. Quarks exist in six types.
Professor Higgs says he did not believe in the existence of quarks until the Seventies.
Tullio

But importantly, those decay products should include the lightest and most stable superparticle, known as the neutralino – the particle that researchers have proposed is what makes up dark matter, the missing mass in the cosmos that gravitationally binds galaxies together on the sky but which cannot be seen directly with telescopes.

"This would rock the world,” said Prof Heinemann. "For me, it’s more exciting than the Higgs."

We need something else to rock the world grmpf...professor.... Why is it so important to create antimatter?? Why the hell do we need antimatter?

The University of California at Berkeley researcher made her comments at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

http://meetings.aaas.org/

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The neutralino is not antimatter but a WIMP, a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle, which would solve the dark matter mystery.
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"We hope that we're just now at this threshold that we're finding another world, like antimatter for instance. We found antimatter in the beginning of the last century. Maybe we'll find now supersymmetric matter."

Supersymmetric matter?!? Oh c'mon, those are just meaningless words man. This makes me think of the energy world, because particles consist of energy. Energy can't be humanly controlled. Building a space telescope like the JWST is perfectly controlled by humans, therefore it cannot harm anyone.

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Antimatter was foreseen by Dirac in his equation, and was found later by Anderson, Powell and Occhialini.There is tittle antimatter in our world, but it is used in Positron Emission Tomography for medical radiology.
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It just seems to me that everytime a new even smaller particle is found, it is then found to have even smaller component particles and so on and so on. Will they still be finding new particles in 100 years or is there a theoretical limit to the number of them?

According to the Rosicrucian studies there are still 34 elements to be found.

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AFAIK there are only three stable particles, the proton, the electron and the neutrino. Ordinary matter is made up from protons, neutrons and electrons, but a free neutron decays with half life of about 15 minutes in a proton, an electron and a neutrino, all with 1/2 spin units. All other particles decay in a short time. They are called fermions, since they obey the Fermi-Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle, which builds the chemical elements.
Particles with integer spin units are called bosons, since they obey the Bose-Einstein statistics, They are the quanta of the fields. The Hoggs boson has zero spin and is the quantum of the Higgs field, the photon has spin 1 and is the quantum of the electromagnetic field, the still hypothetical graviton has spin 2 and is the quantum of the gravitational field.
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It just seems to me that everytime a new even smaller particle is found, it is then found to have even smaller component particles and so on and so on. Will they still be finding new particles in 100 years or is there a theoretical limit to the number of them?

Now you're starting to sound like an old foggy dinosaur Chris that doesn't want to acknowledge that new discoveries can be found or that there are other ways to find new 1's that have always existed. It's called progress buddy and it will always be with us whether you like it or not and others will always find new ways to find things. ;-)

Cheers.

According to the Rosicrucian studies there are still 34 elements to be found.

Interesting, I didn't know that. REAL elements or derived Isotopes etc?

Real elements. I have an adapted periodic table with question marks where the missing elements should come.

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Personally I think that the most important discoveries will be not in physical sciences but in the brain/mind and consciousness question, a field pioneered by John Eccles, Karl Pribram and Roger Penrose and now entered also by Federico Faggin, the builder of the first microprocessor. I've had an exchange of ideas with letters with both Pribram and Penrose but all attempts to send my ideas to be read by Italian scientists so far have failed. They probably think I am a crackpot. Only Roberto Battiston, a physicist who is now President of the Italian Space Agency, seemed interested.
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Real elements. I have an adapted periodic table with question marks where the missing elements should come.

Can I have a copy please, I would be very interested to see it.

Sure, I'll take a pic of it tonight and post it here.

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Good news!

For the first time ever, a scientist has detected a simulated version of the so-called “God particle” using superconducting materials, providing evidence that the Higgs boson can be detected without the use of an energy accelerator environment, according to a new study published by the journal Nature Physics.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1113338068/scientists-witness-simulated-god-particle-for-first-time-022015/

Unlike CERN’s research, which required the use of an advanced particle accelerator that cost approximately $4.75 billion to build, the results of the new experiments were obtained through relatively low-cost methods that took place in a regular laboratory. The findings could also help scientists better understand how the particle behaved in different conditions.

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Collision events in LHC are simulated on my computers using the CERN programs vLHC@home and Atlas@home, which require the installation of Virtual Box by Oracle. LHC@home instead checks the stability of particle orbits in the LHC.
The program MCPLOTS gives the number of events simulated by my 3 computers, of which 2 use Linux and one Windows 8.1. I have simulated so far about 879 million events and I am approaching 1 billion events, after which I shall be admitted to the Billionaire club.
Tullio

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Update:

CERN wins award for best Twitter account in Switzerland

Nicholas Muldoon, Agile coach at Twitter, selected CERN from a list of 10 Twitter accounts (link is external), ranging from tourism to luxury brands to sports personalities. He presented the award to Kate Kahle, CERN’s social media manager and James Gillies, CERN’s head of communication.

“I chose the @CERN account for a number of reasons,” explained Muldoon. “The most significant thing for me was that @CERN is bringing people around the world into one of the greatest explorations of our universe, and doing it in a very social media savvy way.”

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Start of beam commissioning now scheduled for Wednesday 25th March.

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Start of beam commissioning now scheduled for Wednesday 25th March.

Yup, posted that on facebook. Anxious to see what it gives..

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