Well, I napped through the ceremonial opening. Just as well. I'm not getting anything on the
live webcast (or
the Flash version) -- a quick "connecting" then blackness on the Windows Media version and endless loading on the Flash version. That's what I saw a couple of hours before the event, too.
Some other pages are completely failing to load. I bet they're just swamped by interest.
Let's take a snapshot of the
CERN Twitter, for the record:
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10:25, 10 September 2008. Historic moment. The LHC first beam has just circulated. Amazing moment. about 1 hour ago from web
This is the big moment. Next injection should one full circuit. about 1 hour ago from web
10:00 The beam has now done half a lap. Still going well. about 2 hours ago from web
9:30. First beam injected and stopped at 1/8 of a circuit. Loud applause in the control room. about 2 hours ago from web
It's LHC first beam day. Beams at the door of the LHC, ready for first injection. http://www.cern.ch/lhc-firs... about 2 hours ago from web
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Press Association: Smooth start for 'Big Bang' machine
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The eyes of the world were on LHC project leader Dr Lyndon Evans, from Aberdare in south Wales, in the tense minutes before the machine was "switched on".
Looking relaxed in a short-sleeved shirt and jeans, Dr Evans counted down the last few seconds before the first beam of protons was put into the LHC.
"Five, four, three, two, one, zero - nothing," he joked before a blip appeared on a computer monitor signalling that the long years of hard work had paid off and the machine was working. Dr Evans, whose father was a coalminer, said: "This is really the biggest and most complex scientific project ever undertaken, and you cannot do a thing like this without engineers and applied scientists of very top quality."
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