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This article says the LHC at CERN shut down on purpose on Dec 4, 2018. I don't know that I believe them.
http://atometry.com/the-large-hadron-collider-just-shut-down/
The Large Hadron Collider Just Shut Down
By admin on December 4, 2018 Future, Hard Science, large hadron collider, LHC, particle physics, Physics
The Large Hadron Collider was shut down for routine maintenance on Monday. Come 2021, CERN scientists will have equipped it with all new accelerators.
Shut it Down
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the particle accelerator famous for producing evidence of the elusive Higgs Boson, is taking a well-deserved break — all experimentation temporarily shut down on Monday. But unlike the time the LHC shut down in 2016 after a weasel chewed through some wires, this pause in operations was deliberate.
Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, will spend the next two years performing routine maintenance and upgrading the LHC’s capabilities. If all goes according to plan, they’ll switch it back on in early 2021, according to a CERN press release.
More Power
The next run of experiments will involve collisions at higher energy levels than ever before, which CERN scientists hope will yield more and higher quality data than ever before. To make that possible, scientists will replace the two accelerators in the LHC — which contains two particle accelerators facing each other — with new and improved models that can generate more intense beams of hydrogen ions.
Better accelerators and more intense beams will allow CERN scientists to smash particles together harder than ever before, which they say unlocks new experiments that are currently beyond the LHC’s capacity.
Meanwhile
While the LHC’s operators won’t conduct any new experiments for over two years, there’s a good chance that we’ll hear about new discoveries in particle physics in that time. Right now, CERN is sitting on a massive backlog of LHC data. The recently-completed run of experiments, which began back in 2015, yielded 300 petabytes of data, which CERN compared to a millennium of nonstop video footage.
While some CERN scientists will be preparing the LHC for the future of particle physics experimentation, others will spend that time poring through the existing data, looking for any findings that they may have missed — stay tuned.
So what really happened on Dec 4th?
WAS there a "massive power glitch" causing a shutdown and the need for the "fire brigade to secure the sites"?
Or was there a planned shutdown for maintenance/upgrade of facilities per the article?
Since we don't know where the screencap came from or whether it's authentic, I don't know what to believe.
When did the 17 second pulses occur? Was it on Nov. 11, 2018? Did it recur a week or two later? I cannot recall.
Is there any correlation between this CERN incident/shutdown and the 17 second pulses that rang the earth?
Is there any possibility that /ourguys/ do not want CERN running and somehow made it shut down?
Not sure where to dig further, but intrigued at the possibilities here.