The Eternal Light Will be switched off......

[Michael Alexander]

With regard to the Eternal Light that has now recently been disclosed as the light burning behind the Voortrekkers.......... The Eternal Light Will be switched off......

[SandyB]

WHEN PERPETUAL MOTION  BECOMES A REALITY ...

[Alfred Boehme]

Guys please listen to me the light cannot be turned off

[Andrew Darné]

As Mike V put it, probably connected in the poop pump station... and Alf did the connection... directly to the busbars, b#%ger the switch!

[Michael Alexander]

Alf , more than likely ran an HT CABLE straight from the main line that feeds the town and then attached a transformer to the base of the light.....




Any light can be switched off, just chuck a rock at the bulb.....

[Alfred Boehme]

Any light but not this light you have named it

[Bob Molloy]

Found it! I knew I'd read it somewhere. You are right Alf, the light cannot be switched off. Read on...........


Cern's Large Hadron Collider is up and running for the first time since its high-profile breakdown in September last year.

The trial run on Friday was low-key compared to last year's ill-fated switch-on, but scientists said that the first beams suggested that the £3.6 billion experiment was finally back under way.

"It's the beginning of a very well-planned and cautious switch-on," Professor Brian Foster, a particle physicist from the University of Oxford, said.

Proton beams and lead ions were sent at a relatively low energy around a section of the ring containing the "A Large Ion Collider Experiment" (Alice) detector. Protons were also sent through the LHCb detector, which is designed to investigate why the Universe is made up almost entirely of matter and hardly any antimatter.

The accelerator is being ramped up to full energy gradually to minimise the chances of a repeat of the failure that led to a year's worth of repairs. The first particles to be sent around the whole ring are scheduled for mid-November and the first collisions will take place in the new year.

The accelerator was switched off last September after only nine days because of a faulty electrical connection between two magnets. The flaw resulted in more than a ton of liquid helium coolant leaking from magnets, causing them to warm up by as much as 100C. After a year of repairs, the magnets have been cooled back down to just 1.9 degrees above absolute zero (-271 C).

When the accelerator is fully functioning, protons and heavy ions, such as lead, will be accelerated to almost the speed of light around the machine's 17-mile underground ring. By smashing them together in high-speed collisions, scientists hope to recreate conditions similar to those of the early Universe.

The collisions could provide the first experimental evidence for the Higgs boson, which many scientists believe explains the origin of mass. Other researchers are looking for evidence of Supersymmetry, the idea that every particle in the Universe has a "companion" particle.

Last week, Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya, of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, suggested that the breakdowns at the collider could be caused by the Higgs boson itself.

They said that the boson could theoretically ripple backwards through time to destroy whatever had created it in the first place. This could also cause the accelerator to malfunction, they said, and create such occurrences as "strangelets". An example of this was an eternal light reportedly found burning in an old mining ghost city in the Namib Desert. The reports have been dismissed as unfounded.

However, most scientists have attributed the initial failure to more mundane factors. "The idea that you need to postulate time travel is simply absurd," said Professor Foster. "It's like postulating that little green men must have landed in your garden when you can't find your keys in the morning. It's simply a very complicated experiment and it's not that surprising that something should go wrong in the first attempt."

[Michael Alexander]

In the words of Victor Mildrew...... "I DON"T BELIEVE IT!"   

Bob, did the article really state that?

Gee! We also have an eternal light, obviously a common occurrence here in the Namib desert....

Must research this one.....

[Alfred Boehme]

I told you so

[SandyB]

Ha Ha .. bob took what is commonly called journalistic licence and added in his own bit ...  a journo never dies , just continues with  mischief ..   

[Andrew Darné]

And so the eternal light hath ended...