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Title: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Post by: Kosh on January 10, 2011, 07:23:42 pm
Shall we give it a 21 collision salute? (http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01/10/2034209/Tevatron-To-Shut-Down-At-End-of-2011)


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"It appears Fermilab's Tevatron will be shutting down by the end of 2011. Rumors confirmed today at the ISP220 conference say that the DOE denied further funding for the project. Looks like the LHC is our only hope in the hunt for the Higgs after all."
Title: Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Post by: General Battuta on January 10, 2011, 07:25:32 pm
I have a friend who took a spin working there - everything I've heard suggests they used their last years well.

o7
Title: Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Post by: NGTM-1R on January 10, 2011, 07:38:54 pm
Damnation and hellfire. Now we're going to end up using the parts to make EMP bombs.
Title: Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Post by: Mongoose on January 10, 2011, 09:38:43 pm
Well this heaves.
Title: Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Post by: Unknown Target on January 10, 2011, 11:18:40 pm
There goes science - one of the first things to go in a round of budget cuts.
Title: Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Post by: Flipside on January 10, 2011, 11:20:47 pm
A pity, the two accelerators were actually approaching the problem from different angles and complimented each other, it's as much a loss for science in Europe as it is for science in the US :(
Title: Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Post by: Kosh on January 11, 2011, 06:07:54 am
Perhaps not as much as the cancellation of this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider).
Title: Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Post by: SpardaSon21 on January 11, 2011, 12:12:14 pm
Now it looks like we only have one potential black hole creator.  Fortunately that scientist at the LHC who looks like Gordon Freeman already has a crowbar, so I'm not too concerned.
Title: Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Post by: Flipside on January 11, 2011, 02:48:28 pm
With the size of the Black Holes that might be created, the Crowbar would have enough mass to close about a million of them ;)

Basically, as I understand it, these holes are so small that the moment they release their first wave of Hawking Radiation, they will collapse in on themselves.
Title: Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Post by: Astronomiya on January 11, 2011, 05:01:54 pm
They don't collapse in on themselves (a black hole is already the most compact possible object...).  They evaporate and explode in a puff of gamma rays in some ungodly short amount of time.
Title: Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Post by: watsisname on January 11, 2011, 07:09:36 pm
yo mamma so fat she explode in puff of gamma rays twelve trillion years later

wait what
Title: Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Post by: Flipside on January 12, 2011, 02:18:26 am
Quote from: Astronomiya on January 11, 2011, 05:01:54 pm
They don't collapse in on themselves (a black hole is already the most compact possible object...).  They evaporate and explode in a puff of gamma rays in some ungodly short amount of time.

Yeah, bad choice of words on my part there :nervous: