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Anonymous ID: 475fde Dec. 3, 2018, 11:44 a.m. No.4132318   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2379

Possible gunman on campus of William Peace University in Raleigh, school officials say

Updated: Dec 03, 2018 02:26 PM EST

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) - Authorities said police were investigating a possible gunman on the William Peace University campus in Raleigh on Monday afternoon.

 

The university first posted an alert about the threat on their website on Monday. The alert headline asked everyone to "seek shelter."

 

The alert said: "A possible gunman was reported on his way to campus. Shelter in place until further notice."

 

A later post on Twitter at 1:43 p.m. said: "Raleigh Police is investigating a possible gunman on campus."

 

Earlier, at 1:28 p.m., the university, which is located just north of downtown Raleigh along Peace Street near Capital Boulevard, also posted a tweet with the same original information.

 

The tweet told people to "shelter in place."

 

Several Raleigh police vehicles and officers were seen on campus around 1:35 p.m.

 

As of 2:15 p.m. sirens on campus were still sounding alarms, a CBS 17 reporters on the scene said.

 

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

Anonymous ID: 475fde Dec. 3, 2018, noon No.4132543   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2694

The Large Hadron Collider is shutting down for 2 years

Scientists will use the break in operations to beef up the accelerator’s energy

1:39PM, DECEMBER 3, 2018

The world’s most powerful particle accelerator has gone quiet. Particles took their last spin around the Large Hadron Collider on December 3 before scientists shut the machine down for two years of upgrades.

 

Located at the particle physics laboratory CERN in Geneva, the accelerator has smashed together approximately 16 million billion protons since 2015, when it reached its current energy of 13 trillion electron volts. Planned improvements before the machine restarts in 2021 will bring the energy up to 14 trillion electron volts — the energy it was originally designed to reach.

 

During a round of lower-energy collisions between 2009 and 2013, researchers found the elusive Higgs boson, filling in the last missing piece of the standard model of particle physics (SN: 7/28/12, p. 5).

 

The planned adjustments to the machine will also lay the groundwork for another incarnation of the collider further in the future, known as the High-Luminosity LHC (SN Online: 6/15/18). That upgrade, expected to be ready by 2026, will increase the rate of proton smashups by at least a factor of five.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cern-large-hadron-collider-shutting-down-2-years