The Large Hadron Collider - Free access to articles Vol. 448, No. 7151 (19 July 2007)
In 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will come into operation at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. The highest-energy accelerator ever built, it heralds a new era in particle-physics research, in which we hope to complete the standard model and even go beyond, into a new realm of physics.
Source: Nature Alert [Nature@ealerts.nature.com]
How is that president (Aymar) able to say in good faith that there will not be further delays past the May 2008 start date. Check this link with a schedule. By October 5 sectars had to be cooled down. Only one actually was. And the same lame excuse. Aaaaaaaa its a complex task so these things happen. As if they did not know it was complex when they came up with the schedule. This is one FUBAR project. I wish someone would cancel it already. They'll be lucky if they operate by 2015. And they deserve to be beat at the game by Fermilab.
http://sylvainw.home.cern.ch/sylvainw/planning-follow-up/Schedule.pdf