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efforts have been concentrated on correctly tuning the parameters of the Quench Protection System ...
In the CERN Control Centre, the operators are now working on optimising the beam parameters and improving the beam lifetime. The energy of the proton beams is currently 450 GeV. The first energy ramp-up is expected in the next few days. High-energy collisions are planned for the end of March.
The ‘Great Magnetic Filament’ on the sun that we’ve been tracking for the past week finally erupted yesterday… The event did not produce a bright solar flare, as sometimes happens when filaments erupt, but there was a coronal mass ejection (CME). SOHO coronagraphs observed at least one and possibly as many as three clouds billowing away from the sun… If any of this material is heading for Earth - a big unknown! - it would arrive on Feb. 27th or 28th.“
Originally posted by WarriorKing
Do I dare suggest something in the way of an approaching huge celestial object tugging on (or repelling) that same protective magnetoshpere?
Let's take a look at the numbers and try to see what kind of advantage the toss-winning team has. The data is pretty straightforward - in 43 coin tosses, the winner has gone on to win 20 games and lose 23 games. As such it would seem that winning the toss is a disadvantage.
the winner does in fact have an important advantage.
Data taking has begun for the 2011 run after stable beams at an energy of 3.5 TeV were announced shortly after 6pm on 13th March. Physicists from the LHC experiments will now begin acquiring and analysing data from proton collisions, slowly building evidence for current models and seeking tantalizing clues of new physics.