To me,
a massive relief the technical achievement wasn't achieved quickly. I'm sure d02sjm would see this.

I just hope enough people on the side of safety certainty can tolerate a halt for a year, or three over which time those disagreers among us <well not us ourselves so much> are given the right to have a meaningful input.

God only knows how we could continue like this when the 'respected astrophysicist'* Plaga seriously considers, after reviewing and countering the criticisms,
that there are string theories that can be correctly applied so as to bring a very dangerous scenario forward.

Is there actually a mistake in his work? Isn't he in a better position to establish that, as an astrophysicist, than ourselves, criticising from the outside.

*phrase from (disagreeing) nasa Ask an Astrophysicist

The LHC is still on schedule for September/October this year. The CERN team has given an update on June 19 2009 which puts the delay to the restart at most to two or three weeks.

The news from Symmetry Breaking is that two new vacuum leaks have set the project back to mid November.