Decay

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(Security)

(Sign:
LHC Safety interlocks

Danger:
Do Not Deactivate)

Hi, it's you. You're not supposed to be here.

James, get up. We're late.

What else can I say, drunk on a Sunday night.

Do you remember that part last night, when Amy got on the table...

That's my sister, I do not need to be reminded.

Where's all the food?

Come on, let's go.

Come on, guys, we're going to be late.

Do you care to drive after your stunt last night, Amy?

Oh - Hi Mark!

You're in.

Not going by bus, today?

Nope.

I - sorry, I was driving past the shops and I picked him up.

Oh, OK.

So what's the rush, anyway?

Some kind of emergency meeting?

(Decay)

What do you think this emergency meeting is about?

I don't know, but it can't be that important.

Go on ahead guys, I'm gonna...

No, Dr Niven. LHC is most important experiment of our time.

I will not, due that unfounded theory -

Unfounded? Director, my results show that -

Inconclusive! Your results are inconclusive at best!

No. You'll have plenty of time for measurements when you're down in the tunnel tonight.

Director, we have to stop the LHC until we assess the danger.

No. Dr Niven, once we have fixed this problem, the LHC will run again as usual.

Finding the Higgs is the highest priority.

Why is Dr Niven going into the tunnels?

Why do you think the Director General said it?

Maybe they made a black hole.

Sorry!

Hey!

Hey!

So did you recover from last night?

Yeah, you too?

Mhm.

Wait, aren't you meant to be on your way to Barcelona by now?

I... might have missed my flight?

Oh no! [Laughs]

Good morning. I am professor Vacinski, Director General of CERN.

This meeting has been called because last night there was an emergency beam dump.

Here we see a monopole magnet in LHC sector 7G.

Beam sensors have detected that an unknown event caused this magnet to quench

and triggered an uncontrolled shut down.

If this happens again, the results could be catastrophic.

Due to the special circumstances, Dr. Niven is taking a team into the LHC tunnel

to investigate the cause and see what damage there is.

The LHC will be in shut-down, at least until the end of the week.

Since Dr. Niven will not be available, we will need four volunteers

to be on shift in the control room.

We'll do it.

Okay. You four.

Oh, I'm going to be in a conference in Barcelona.

Very well, you, you then.

Uh, I have an analysis note due this week so I'm not going to have time to do this.

The collider will be shut down, you can work in the control room.

Report to the control room at 9 p.m., that is all everybody.

Sucks to be you guys!

Here you go.

Thanks.

They don't look like proto-decay matricies.

No.

Dr. Nivens got me working on this Higgs bio-entanglement simulation.

Some company gave a lot of money to CERN and I get stuck working on it.

I've got so much work to do.

Listen, are you okay after last night?

Why?

You and Matt?

Don't know what you're talking about. Anyway, are you jealous?

Hm, sorry.

Listen, I better go, I've got a lot of work to do.

Ugh, I'm so tired. I can't even think about work right now.

I hope he doesn't expect me to remember anything.

Ahh, Lisa! Did you finish the talk?

Yeah, just in time.

I had every confidence in you.

Did you get a chance to look at my simulation?

Ah yes, problems with the simple symmetric parameter lattice...

I think I found a way to express it differently.

I didn't implement it in my analysis code yet, but you might like to try it.

It looks more complex though, I don't know if it will work on my laptop.

Well, we'll deal with that later if we need to.

Okay, thanks.

Anyway, I have to prepare my team for going in the tunnels and look over Lisa's talk

so I'll talk to you later.

And Lisa? Don't miss the plane again.

I won't.

Hey guys, wait.

I'm bringing someone.

Who?

Just someone.

OK. Well, we're gonna be late, so...

Hi!

Everyone, this is my girlfriend Kate. Kate, this is Matt and Connor

Hi.

and my sister Amy.

Hi.

Nice to finally meet you.

Finally? I didn't tell you...

Mom let it slip. I was waiting for you to tell me!

It's nice to finally meet you as well.

Are you coming with us?

I think so.

Yeah.

Okay.

Should we go?

So uh, why have you thrown away your evening away to go on shift?

James was gonna come meet me for dinner but then he told me that you guys had to uh...

Oh sorry.

It's okay, don't worry.

And how did James manage to convince you that

vending machine food was going to be an acceptable substitute?

Shift can sometimes be boring, are you going to be okay?

I told her.

Well, I insisted.

She's with me.

So are you guys visitors, like James?

Yeah, but he works on the accelerator. The rest of us analyse the data.

Yeah, he's an engineer, and we're real physicists.

So, what do you do?

I'm a trainee nurse.

I hope you're not claustrophobic, it's a long way down.

Guys, I've thought of a joke.

Ugh, another one.

So a chimpanzee and a sloth...

And then the chimpanzee's like, "Stop it, stop it!"

Do you want to watch "A Clockwork Orange"?

I borrowed it from Amy.

Yep, sure.

That's a pretty deep film for a lowly engineer like yourself.

You shouldn't let him talk to you like that.

He's only messing around.

So the accelerator boosts the beam of protons to almost the speed of light.

And then we collide them... here.

And then we detect what's made in the collision.

What's up?

I thought I'd got it working!

Got... what working?

Her Higgs simulation.

Her... what simulation?

My Higgs radiation simulation.

The "God" particle.

It's a particle that we're trying to make in the collider.

I'm meant to be investigating how it acts on living tissue...

...but my programme just crashes every single time that it starts to look bad.

So what, you think Higgs radiation is dangerous?

I don't know. I'd know if I could get it to finish!

They wouldn't run the LHC if they thought it was a danger.

Must be a glitch or something.

Have you tried on the central computer system?

Except... she doesn't have access to the mainframe.

Are you not allowed to use it?

Well... not exactly.

There we go.

Nice!

Nice one Amy!

It wasn't me!

It's not you... the LHC is ramping.

"Ramping" ramping?

The beams are firing!

The team's still down there! Shut it off!

What the f***?!

The phones are down!

What... what's going on?

The LHC is turned on.

The radiation levels will be killing everyone down there.

People are dying?!

No one is dying!

Shut up Matt!

James, what can we do?

I don't know, the overrides aren't working.

I haven't got any signal!

We're a hundred metres underground, what do you expect!

The radiation levels are spiking.

The shielding's not in place when the maintenance tunnels are open.

Well why the f*** not?!

This shouldn't be able to happen.

...Sh*t!

We've got less than two minutes and we're fried.

We've got to get out!

What about the people in the tunnels?

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