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Atom smasher ramped up in quest for secrets of universe

Scientists are restarting the world's most powerful atom-smasher over coming days, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Sunday, as they prepare a new campaign to explore the secrets of the universe. The 3.9 billion euro (5.6 billion dollars) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was shut down in December to ready it for collisions at unfathomed energy levels. It was run for a few weeks after being successfully revived from a 14 month breakdown. The particle collider -- inside a 27-kilometre (16.8-mile) tunnel straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva -- is aimed at understanding the origins of the universe by recreating the conditions that followed the Big Bang. "We should be getting beams back in the LHC between Monday and Wednesday, with the first high energy collisions - so the real start of the research programme - coming two to four weeks later," CERN spokesman James Gillies told AFP.

"This is as scheduled when we switched off in December."

In the weeks before the technical shutdown, the collider achieved over a million particle collisions and accelerated proton beams to energy levels never reached before, according to CERN. Collisions reached a world record energy level of 2.36 teraelectronvolts (TeV), already allowing scientists to gather data. But CERN now wants to reach 7.0 TeV to try to recreate conditions close to the Big Bang, and run it at those levels for 18 to 24 months. Subsequently the scientists aim to reach the LHC's design energy of 14 TeV, but only following another long technical shutdown in the second half of 2011. Before the LHC experiment, no particle accelerator had exceeded 0.98 TeV. One TeV is the equivalent to the energy of motion achieved by a flying mosquito. The winter standby was used to bolster the accelerator for the higher electric currents demanded by such enormous energy levels, and upgrade its cryogenic cooling system. The LHC, a global effort, aims to resolve physics problems including "dark matter" and "dark energy", thought to account for 96 percent of the cosmos. The scientists' Holy Grail is to find a theorised component called the Higgs Boson, commonly called the "God Particle", which would explain how particles acquire mass. The experiment, the fruit of decades of experiments and research by physicists from around the world, has even attracted Hollywood in recent years with the fictional blockbuster "Angels and Demons".

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Soccer star 'attacked at taxi rank'

Glasgow Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor has received medical treatment following a disturbance at a taxi rank, it has been reported. The football club said only that the 28-year-old had been involved in an "incident" in Glasgow city centre on Saturday night. McGregor is said to have received a graze to his back after being attacked by up to three men in Bath Street. The Daily Record said the star had been attending a Celtic player's birthday party at a nightclub when he was hurt. He later underwent X-rays at a private clinic, according to the paper. Strathclyde Police said it had not received a report of the incident. A Rangers spokesman said: "We are aware of an incident involving Allan McGregor in the city centre and we have no further comment to make." The alleged assault followed Rangers' postponed Clydesdale Bank Premier League game at St Johnstone. McGregor has spent his entire professional career at Rangers, joining the club in the summer of 1998.(my view)-Sorry i don't post about football EVER....i HATE ANY AND ALL SPORT that doesn't involve disabled people,lets face it....disabled people are better at sport ect,their more carmer,none violent ect.anyway. i have one sentence for you all.....IT'S ONLY A FUCKING GAME ASSHOLES,sport DOES NOT benefit anyone.

Planespotters face India charges-WTF

Two planespotters are facing charges of illegally monitoring aircraft in India. Stephen Hampton and Steven Ayres aroused suspicion after asking staff at a Delhi hotel for a room overlooking a runway. They were carrying an air traffic control scanner, laptop, binoculars and cameras. Police arrested them on February 15 and questioned them over monitoring flights at Delhi International Airport. The pair were hoping to be released without charge but a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spokesman said they are due in court on Tuesday after being charged with misusing communications equipment under the Indian Telegraph Act. Railway worker Mr Hampton and Mr Ayres, both from Bristol, are being held in a New Delhi immigration centre.(my view)-WTF lol no wonder the country is so backwardly challenged..........WHAT WE CAN'T EVEN LOOK UP NOW! what the fuck their planespotters.....like trainspotters who have book and right the numbers down ect...what even the shit hobby entails.........they were doing NOTHING wrong......talk about slavery of rights.....WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO LOOK UP! SIDEWAYS.....what ever we look at......its not illegal you fuckers

Pc 'let dogs die in baking car'-Concluded ?

A police dog handler left his two devoted German Shepherds to bake to death in the back of his car when he became distracted by paperwork, a court has heard. Pc Mark Johnson, 39, was suffering from depression and obsessive compulsive disorder leading to him forgetting his dogs, 18-month-old Jay-Jay and Jet, seven, on June 30 last year. Paul Taylor, prosecuting the case for the RSPCA, told the trial at Nottingham Magistrates' Court: "Jet and Jay-Jay suffered excruciating pain when their handler Pc Johnson left them in the boot of his private motorcar. "Pc Johnson's usual routine would have been to have transferred them to a police vehicle which had an air cooling unit but he did not transfer them and went about his business. He had some paperwork which needed to be done and by the time he realised what had happened, seven hours had passed and he went out and realised the dogs had died. "Pc Johnson had always been devoted to animals and his dogs in particular - who would have saved his life or got him out of tricky situations on operations in the past. I can find no evidence that he harboured any malice towards his dogs or that he would have wished to harm them but he made an error which nevertheless had fatal consequences for the animals. "His failure in this case is an aberration of his normal high standards. However his actions had catastrophic consequences for the two dogs in the car." The RSPCA alleges Johnson unnecessarily confined his dogs "in an environment that was detrimental to their wellbeing". He denies the charge. The deaths happened on one of the hottest days of the year, when temperatures reached 29.3C (84.7F). The dogs died from heatstroke during a heatwave. Pc Johnson, who has served with the force for nearly 18 years, told the court that he was left severely depressed and suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder after facing repeated investigations by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. He said: "Basically it was to do with the IPCC, that they were out to get me. Complaint after complaint came in and they were referred to the IPCC when they shouldn't have been. I always felt they were trying to prove a case against me."(my view)"He denied the charges"! what the fuck.....they were your dogs and it your car..the dogs didn't leave themselves in the car shit for brains!i BET they will NOT even fire this fucker.....cops are criminals who make us suffer and waste OUR money for their stupidity...PIGS SUCK!