LHC

[Quick Silver]

This thread has been a bit quiet since the fall. Perhaps I can reactivate it by asking what's up with the ITER (the pilot fusion reactor)? Weren't they supposed to be installing the kit by now?

Quick Silver
Hong Kong

[26mi235]

Peter Woit and Matt Strassler both have interesting and generally accessible blogs on the physics. Both are somewhat dubious on string theory and supersymmetry.

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/

http://profmattstrassler.com/

added 3/16 Both, but especially MS have discussions because of the updating of the results from the LHC, which seem to continue (even more over time) to affirm the SM (Standard Model) and show nothing of numerous extensions or alterations.

[JRM]

This thread has been a bit quiet since the fall. Perhaps I can reactivate it by asking what's up with the ITER (the pilot fusion reactor)? Weren't they supposed to be installing the kit by now?

Quick Silver
Hong Kong

I can't say a lot about the progress of this project. It is unrelated to the LHC. Fusion as a returnable energy source has been problematic for decades. It would be nice to see some breakthroughs on that front, but it will require significant advances in engineering, more than physics. On paper, no-cost fusion is easy. In practice... not so much.