Large hadron collider teardown :) - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Wartex
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2012, 04:36:23 am
content: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/07/12/interactive-panorama-step-inside-the-large-hadron-collider/?hpt=hp_c2#endClick "full screen" button. Mouse wheel to zoom, drag to rotate.

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2012, 04:53:33 am
content: gah, such horrible render distortion :/ still intersting, but feel it could be done much better

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2012, 06:10:21 am
content: I tried watching it but it made me feel ill.

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2012, 07:09:15 am
content: Quote"Compact"RIGHT.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2012, 08:21:52 am
content: Compared to standard, which is a million gallon tank of ultra pure water sitting a couple of hundred metres underground in a salt mine, yes.

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2012, 08:33:22 am
content: I wonder how many cable ties are in that thing

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2012, 08:48:35 am
content: The entire year's output of Tytron Hellerman I would guess.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 15, 2012, 08:53:22 am
content: I am relieved to see pieces of wood and some forgotten washers in there. They are humans after all.

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2012, 09:22:19 am
content: I would love to see Dave and Mike do a collaborative tear down of that thing. Trouble would be the number of hours required to watch it.Even the support steel work is a masterpiece of engineering,Looks like submerged arc welds, and those level jacks either end are quite something, then all that wire harness. The label reads PSL engineering and instrumentation University of Wisconsin. Madison. I would have thought that the steel work would have been made in Europe to save transport of such a large fabrication, that steel plate is about ten inch thick.

author: M. András
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2012, 03:52:12 pm
content: tax payers paid for it anyway, so why bother to make it close to the site?i would love to see some progress from them suchs as finding new powersource etc if they are messing with atoms anyway and consuming few terawatts of power. but here comes the fun part the peeps should turn off everyhing at home not to waste power from standby power

author: Wartex
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2012, 05:35:52 pm
content: Quote from: G7PSK on July 15, 2012, 09:22:19 amDon't mean to diss Dave, but Mike's teardowns are a lot more interesting and he doesn't talk out of his ass if he doesn't know what the part does. He also knows how to interface the weird-ass components to make them work again. Dave just takes shit apart.Also LHC is FAR, FAR BEYOND what Dave and Mike does, so there is no possible way in their lifetime they can teardown and explain something that is built on millions on man-hours of labour and research. I think you don't appreciate the complexity of LHC.