Large Hadron Collider is colder than space

22 yards · #1 16.10.2009, 23:55

LHC gets colder than deep space

By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News

The giant Atlas detector will search for hints of the elusive Higgs boson particle

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment has once again become one of the coldest places in the Universe.

All eight sectors of the LHC have now been cooled to their operating temperature of 1.9 kelvin (-271C; -456F) - colder than deep space.

I'm not surpised, if Geneva's getting the weather we've had in Basel this week!

Treverus · #2 17.10.2009, 00:01

I guess they are about to immanentize the eschaton.

22 yards · #3 17.10.2009, 00:07

	Quote:	Treverus
	I guess they are about to immanentize the eschaton.

"immanentize" ... lovely word ...

Good to see the conspiracy theories spring to life!

22 yards · #4 17.10.2009, 00:09

(e-shat-on -- is that the etymology, perhaps?)

Treverus · #5 17.10.2009, 00:13

	Quote:	22 yards
	(e-shat-on -- is that the etymology, perhaps?)

No, Eschatology (obviously)

22 yards · #6 17.10.2009, 00:14

	Quote:	Treverus
	No, Eschatology (obviously)

Er -- yes. The end of the world. When we all get sh*t on.

Treverus · #7 17.10.2009, 00:24

Ok, I have to admit that I did not get the joke at first.

22 yards · #8 17.10.2009, 00:31

	Quote:	Treverus
	Ok, I have to admit that I did not get the joke at first.

It wasn't very good, was it?