LHC delayed until spring 2009...

After the "failure" of the maiden voyage of the Large Hardon Collider (LHC) on September 10th of this year, CERN has scheduled a date for the relaunching of the LHC. That date will most likely be in April. Now, the failure was the fact that there was a helium leaking cause by a faulty connection between two of the magnets of this $10 billion dollar science experiment. It also had major overheating of the magnets which are scattered accross the LHC. The LHC will have to come back to room temperature before any maintanence can be done. This should take about a month becase the opperating temperature is -456.3 degrees Farenheit. That is pretty damn cold. After maintanence is done, the LHC will have to be brought back down to that same temperature.
Surely one of you is thinking "what in the world is the LHC?" The short answer to that is that it is super powered atom smasher. What this device does is send particles around a 17 mile (located under France and Switzerland) ring at close to the speed of light. Then, they make the particles collide. Scientists are hoping that it will bring us insight on how the universe was created and what exactly is dark matter. IF they get results, it will take close to a decade and the data will fill 10,000 CDs a day. Many think that there will be catastrophic events from the LHC. Some of these are a black hole engulfing the earth, alien races coming through a vortex and destroying mankind, and a huge explosion. The most realistic thing that could happen is the 17 mile ring exploding causing that part of France and Switzerland to explode. The reality is that the chances of anything bad happening are less that 0%. The number is somewhere around 0.00000000024%. Don't worry about the world ending or any catastrophic events ruining you weekend.
I can't wait for the project to be set off and will post on the blog about what happens.