Today, 10th of September 2008, the final, complete, clock and anti-clock wise test of the Large Hadron Collider was a major success. The LHCis working and ready to start to “crash protons”… and probably blow up your (our all) mind ;) .
4.5K-1.9K: brrrrrrr
Some interesting links (that are updated on a frequency of 15/30 minutes):
LHC Cooldown Status - It shows the temperatures in the different sectors. While they were testing it was on an average of 1.9k!!! O_o
BBC Radio 4 following the event on the ground from the Control Room of the LHC