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To: dvdw© who wrote (2642)	9/28/2008 9:35:10 AM
From: dvdw©	Respond to of 3821

Follow up to the great CERN search for Higgs boson, published On September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider fired its first single beam of protons around the 17-mile-long underground circular tunnel – but not two beams of protons colliding head-to-head near the speed of light. There are at least four reasons for the proton collision delay. First, LHC wanted to try out the hardware and magnets. Even that gentle test caused an electric transformer to break down. Then, electrical connections between two magnets failed, causing the magnets to melt, which shut down the superconducting at near absolute zero temperature needed for LHC operations. The LHC demands so much power that France has dedicated one of its nuclear power stations to it. But because it needs so much power, transformers are going to periodically break down. Fourth, shortly after the first test firing, hackers broke into the computers connected to the Compact Muon Solenoid Detector (CMSD) experiment and left this message: “We're pulling your pants down because we don't want to see you running around naked looking to hide yourselves when the panic comes.” CERN now confirms that damage to the Large Hardon Collider is so serious that it won't operate again before some time in Spring 2009. The lead scientist on that hacked Compact Muon experiment is Joseph Lykken, who received his Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 1982. Dr. Lykken has been a particle physicist for nineteen years at the Fermi Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Lykken told me that the hackers themselves in an ironic good deed closed the “hacked doorway” through which they entered. Further, none of the computers controlling the actual LHC proton beam collisions have any connections to the outside world for precisely the reason to prevent hackers from interfering with such a powerful laboratory. Full history and article here; earthfiles.com