Was the Large Hadron Collider a Waste of Time (and Money)?
Was the Large Hadron Collider a Waste of Time (and Money)? Wednesday January 7, 2009 The Large Hadron Collider was one of the biggest news stories of 2009, but there are plans for other types of accelerators which might make such a massive machine completely obsolete. The Large Hadron Collider is a massive, 27-kilometer wide machine, which uses electromagnets to slowly ramp a proton beam up to high energies and speeds, then collides it together with another beam. The scale of the device is immense and a large reason why it had a $9 billion pricetag … before the recent repair bill, for fixing the problems that arose shortly after start-up. One problem with devices like this is that each of them is essentially its own prototype. Particle accelerators are not devices which can be mass produced … o
Was the Large Hadron Collider a Waste of Time (and Money)? Wednesday January 7, 2009#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)The Large Hadron Collider was one of the biggest news stories of 2009, but there are plans for other types of accelerators which might make such a massive machine completely obsolete. The Large Hadron Collider is a massive, 27-kilometer wide machine, which uses electromagnets to slowly ramp a proton beam up to high energies and speeds, then collides it together with another beam. The scale of the device is immense and a large reason why it had a $9 billion pricetag … before the recent repair bill, for fixing the problems that arose shortly after start-up. One problem with devices like this is that each of them is essentially its own prototype. Particle acce
