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LHC-CMS hacked?

“The Telegraph reports that Greek hackers were able to gain momentary access to a CERN computer system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) while the first particles were zipping around the particle accelerator on September 10th. “ With all this nonsense about the LHC right now, this article is not a big surprise: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/12/1657211 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/12/scicern312.xml&page=1 […]

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CERN LHC: First beam(s)

Yesterday the 10th of September 2008 thus the CERN LHC had its start-up and the first beam(s) were successfully circulating.  As I’m part of the ATLAS project this summer I was in the “first-row”when the first beams were injected. We watched the transmission from the CCC, inside CERN, in the main auditorium. This video captured […]

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Cosmoproleten

Nach Tasia, Martin & Lorenz hat mich dieses Wochenende Fritz mit einem Kurzbesuch am CERN beehrt. Dabei kam mein neues Lieblings-Kunstwort “Cosmoprolet” zur Sprache. Zwei Videos zum besseren Verständnis (Nr. 1: der gemeine Kaisermühlner, Nr. 2: der weltgewandte Cosmoprolet ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBJRT_1S8mQ