Beams are circulating in the LHC in both directions again …
[Update]
CMS announced crossed beams on Twitter!
They also give some updates on the beam status on webpage.
Media echo (in Germany)
After last night’s successful restart of the LHC also the German media restarted on this issue …
Tagesschau
Heise
The giant awakes …
… and ATLAS has seen its first beam splash events. Or in other words beams are passing by the machine! Here’s a picture and an animation of two of the first events from last night …
Of course CERN has released an official press release on the restart of the LHC. They also offer a CERN twitter tweet now. For those you who care and know what it is. More footage (that will be kept updated) can be found on the ATLAS Event Display web page.
Just in case you don’t fully understand … this is quite exciting! At least for someone in the field of particle physics … and this is just the beginning (hopefully) … it’s gonna be great.
Going green
This weekend we decided to go a bit more green … we changed our electricity provider.
After some research (actually carried out by a friend of us), some thinking and some calculations we decided to invest a little extra in green energy.
And the provider of choice is … naturstrom.de!
Which apparently is as green as it gets in Germany.
In case you live in Germany an feel like changing as well … we can hook you up ;)
Weired physics
I almost forgot to give a little update on new things happening in my field … Holger B. Nielsen is back with some new/updated theories!
He made it into the NY Times and to Tagessschau.de