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Offline Kosh

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Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
on: January 10, 2011, 07:23:42 pm
Shall we give it a 21 collision salute?


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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."
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Reply #1 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.

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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Reply #2 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.
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Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Reply #3 on: January 10, 2011, 09:38:43 pm
Well this heaves.
 

Offline Unknown Target

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Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Reply #4 on: January 10, 2011, 11:18:40 pm
There goes science - one of the first things to go in a round of budget cuts.
 

Offline Flipside

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Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Reply #5 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 :(
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Reply #6 on: January 11, 2011, 06:07:54 am
Perhaps not as much as the cancellation of this.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Reply #7 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.
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Offline Flipside

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Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Reply #8 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.
 

Offline Astronomiya

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Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Reply #9 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.
 

Offline watsisname

Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Reply #10 on: January 11, 2011, 07:09:36 pm
yo mamma so fat she explode in puff of gamma rays twelve trillion years later

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Offline Flipside

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Re: Tevetron to retire at end of 2011
Reply #11 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:
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