Cern and the LHC...

As CERN has been in the news regarding terrorism or at least its vague link to* I thought I go and see what the LHC (The Register calls it the "Doughnut of Death") was up to these days - when its not being pointed at rouge Western states ... I suppose the best we can hope for is the production of a stranglet or maybe a black hole that doesn't decay via Hawking radition fast enough...

Anyway, a collection of pictures here: http://multimedia-gallery.web.cern.ch/multimedia-gallery/PhotoGallery_Main.aspx and this particularly nice one showing a simulation of what we can expect:

Picture (C)CERN.

The LHC is supposed to be back up and running in November and there is some news via their home page about the various components now being ready and the ring itself now having 6 out of 8 sections cooled.

* Six degrees of Separation
   .. which implies that you are related not only to Osama Bin Laden, but George W Bush, Matti Vanhanen, Margaret Thatcher, Gordon Brown and the Spice Girls too...