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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
BTW, off topic, do any of you folks know how the Hadron collider is progressing? I'd sure love to know when results of experiments might start coming in.
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They haven't started running beam yet. Here are some articles that might or might not be of interest!
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000562
In addition to being sort-of their competitor, Fermilab is also their collaborator. We have a remote control room set up here, where physicists can monitor the operations that are going on in CERN, in Switzerland.
P.S. Fermilab's daily e-newsletter for today, Feb 8, 2008 has a short bit about the search for the Higgs.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive.html