When is the lhc first being turned on?

Question

When is the lhc first being turned on?

Answer 1

I think it is this wedseday at around 08:00 GMT.

I am going to double check.

EDIT:- it is on the 10th. Not sure about 08:00hrs. But I am sure I saw a report that mentioned 08:00Hrs.

http://www.scitech.ac.uk/lhc/

Answer 2

It is already on, but just the cooling systems for getting ready for the final commissioning. The first particle beam will be fired through it on September 10th. The first collisions will happen about 30 days later and the first experiments will start about 45 days later.

Answer 3

Actually it has been running for two months and therefor the world has ended two months ago.

It's just that "THEY" keep it secret...

Answer 4

It was turned on the first day after it was finished being built.

LHC will initialise the final low energy test run will take place on the 10th of September 2008.

LHC will then do some low-energy based test runs.

LHC's first high energy test run will be on the 21st of October, onwards will be the official line of experiments.

The high energy may be dangerous, but other Hadron Colliders in the past, although not so big did not cause any dimensional dangers, like microscopic black holes that could grow and destroy certain parts of the machine, etc.

And a little note on the dangers of black holes:

Microscopic black holes are not rare, they go through us all the time, the size of atoms.

Microscopic black holes don't live long, they die before they can destroy anything, and are easily contained within LHC, the LHC only accelerates matter at 'c', the speed of light, acceleration rates were 1,000 times that of 'c', yes the microscopic black holes, would probably begin to grow off the energy and live longer, and even then, it wouldn't make it bigger than a tiny speck of dust at the very top.

LHC is however, a controlled environment, forcing matter, so without being able to see what this would do in the uncontrolled environment out there in space, we cannot tell what will happen, so scientists leave it with a 1% probability rate, but 1% is a huge percentage in the consequences of a large black hole destroying the Earth, all you'd get from a CERN scientist if you popped the question, they'd just raise their eyebrows and weasel their way out of the conversation, because its possible and they don't want to have a bad name for their ignorance, but they're ignorant anyway...