demagogue on 10/9/2008 at 01:21

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Watch it live when they turn it on.
(http://webcast.cern.ch/index.html)

9 am CEST

... Which says it's +2 GMT (don't they mean +1?), anyway 6 hours after the original time of this post ignoring the minutes ... so uh, 8 am GMT, 3 am U.S.EST, 12 am PST, 5 pm AEST, uh ... the rest of you can figure it out for yourselves.

demagogue on 10/9/2008 at 06:23

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About a half hour until the LHC goes operational.
Hope some of you are watching.
Go science. :)

demagogue on 10/9/2008 at 07:16

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Funny how not only the live webcast page is overloaded, but even sites that just talk about the LHC going online are getting overloaded. I'm not getting a signal... Too bad not a single cable news show is covering it (that I can find).

Anyway, now the preliminary stuff is going on. The first actual injection of a beam "is scheduled for 9:30 CET", about 15 minutes.

Edit: some forums are following it ...
(http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message603923/pg1)

demagogue on 10/9/2008 at 07:46

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Yeah, still sort of fun to follow, though.

I just read this:

Go here, (http://wwitv.com/portal.htm), search Euronews, French Stream, they cut to it every so often... edit: not for long.

And here's a webcam in the Control Room - (http://pcatdwww.cern.ch/atlas-point1/ATLASview/ACR.htm)

Edit: This is it: (http://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/special/webbtv/wmlive/wmp6.html)

applause ... beam's in ... now 1/2 way ... edit 3: ... now completed the circle. Lots of applause. good job everybody.

crunchy on 11/9/2008 at 04:11

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Where's the KABOOM? There was supposed to be an earth shattering KABOOM!