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Well, there was no footage of anyone pushing a big red button, if that’s what you mean. 🙁 Somebody said that the mayor of Meyrin was going to push the button but I guess not.
But they had footage from the main control room of them watching beam pulses from the SPS and the almighty Lyn Evans (a man, in case you were wondering) saying to nobody in particular that the next pulse should go into the LHC. Then, I presume, the drones made it so, and people counted down until we saw a white dot flash on a screen signifying that the beam had arrived where it was supposed to go. This repeated several times as they sent it further and further around, with various levels of cheering in the auditorium depending on how many people present were involved in the detector it had passed through, until eventually there were two white dots (one from the initial beam, the other from the one that had gone all the way around the LHC and got back to the start), and even more cheering.
This was all on the BBC, I presume, I think they’re still broadcasting it now (I went and had a look after lunch, they were talking to some people in the CMS control room) and you can watch it on the webcast if you can connect to it (we’ve been told not to from inside CERN because apparently it has a limited number of connections.) I understand they’re going to send (or already have sent?) the beam in the other direction this afternoon.
There are many videos here but they all seem to be old.
I’ve got very little work done today.
Okay… time to make like a quadrupole and focus!