Yisel Martinez, a Cuban atomic physicist that worked at CERN, said the machine is too complicated and that "...it will keep failing until they give up." http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5213 (scroll down to almost the end of the web page) Hope she is wrong.
I am 75 delta that Fermilab will prove the existance of the Higgs boson before the LHC even becomes operational: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/mar/13/particlephysics-cern
"Search for 'God particle' hit by huge repair bill." http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16208-search-for-god-particle-hit-by-huge-repair-bill.html
I can't get enough of PAMELA http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2008/10/pamelas-coming-out.html The PAMELA excess is hyper-interesting.
Cern physicist admits links with al-Qaida http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/11/french-cern-physicist-admits-al-qaida-links :eek: :eek: I don't know exactly what al-Qaida wants from CERN, but I do know these two facts: 1) Certain forms of Caesium, a sample the size of a pinhead, will kill a human being in minutes. No explosion needed, just exposure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium 2) The most efficient way to release energy is in a mater anti-matter explosion. Even tiny amounts of anti-matter would encinerate a city the size of Chicago. The LHC produces anti-matter in miniscule ammounts. 1/4 of the population of France is unemployed and muslim. I pray these people [the french] understand the problem.
The LHC is getting very close to going hot. The prize discovery amongst others (e.g., supersymmetry) is the Higgs vector Boson. A very nice article on why it is so important: http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2010/08/News Articles/1241788?ln=en
I know you already know how truly miniscule the amounts of anti-matter that has been captured after all these years... and how many more centuries it would take to have enough to annihilate a toilet.
Ja, I forget where I read it, but it would bankrupt the United States if it tried to gather enough AM to due any real damage.