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Old 06-August-2008, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by tomkinsr View Post
One of two things will happen shortly after the beam is turned on and the first collision occurs. Higgs Boson will be proven to exist, the experiment, now a complete success will, will be shut down and thousands of scientists, technologists and technicians and support staff will become unemployed.
Or, someone will come running into the control room screaming, "It's gone, It's gone!", as it will have winked out of existence.
Actually, I doubt both of those scenarios (sorry for being serious if you were joking). As I understand it, there is going to be a fairly long period of time after start-up where they are shaking everything down. And even once they get into the meat of the experiments, they have to run many multiple runs to get enough data, and the data crunching can take months. And the search for the Higgs Boson isn't the only work they are doing.
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