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Jul 12, 2013 20:40:02 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Jul 12, 2013 20:40:02 GMT -6
New Atom-Smashing Magnet Passes First TestsTia Ghose, Staff Writer Date: 12 July 2013 A powerful new magnet to replace existing ones in the world's largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, just passed its first test with flying colors. The magnet, which allows the massive particle collider to study two to three times more proton collisions, could help unveil the mysterious properties of the newly discovered Higgs boson, an elementary particle that is thought to explain how all other particles get their mass. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) between Switzerland and France sends two proton beams barreling at near light-speed around 17-mile (27 kilometers) underground ring until they smash into each other, creating myriad subatomic particles in the process. The new magnet produces a much larger magnetic field to focus the proton beams into an even more miniscule area, thereby ensuring that more protons crash into each other. Focused beamsRight now, the Large Hadron Collider uses a magnet to focus the proton beams before they smash into each other. The farther the protons deviate off course, the stronger the magnet pulls them toward the center of the beam that's just a few thousandths of an inch wide. Though hundreds of billions of protons make up each beam, there are still relatively big empty spaces between them, meaning the odds of a collision are relatively small. The current magnet is made of a superconductor called niobium titanium, which, when cooled to near absolute zero, allows large amounts of current to flow without overheating. Niobium titanium was fine for simply discovering the Higgs boson, but revealing the properties of the Higgs boson requires more collisions than the LHC currently allows. "The LHC is already designed at the limit of the technology," said GianLuca Sabbi, an accelerator physicist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory who helped design the new magnet. "So how do you make it better?" Brittle materialThe answer, it turns out, was to find a better superconductor. One of the top candidates was niobium tin, which can produce a higher magnetic field and more current at higher temperatures. But superconducting coils made of niobium tin are more brittle and therefore prone to moving in response to the huge forces generated as the magnet turns on. That, in turn, could release energy in the form of heat and cause the magnet to lose its superconductivity. Higher-power magnets also cause more radiation of subatomic particles during collisions, which can damage the magnet more quickly. To solve these problems, the team built a thick aluminum shell to support the niobium tin superconductor and prevent its displacement. The new magnet and its housing can produce magnetic fields 50 percent stronger than the LHC's current magnet. That extra strength translates to two or three times the number of collisions, Sabbi said. But the LHC has a bigger goal: Over 10 years, researchers plan to revamp the entire system to achieve 10 times as many collisions www.livescience.com/38129-large-hadron-collider-magnet-passes-tests.html
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Jul 12, 2013 21:34:24 GMT -6
Post by lois on Jul 12, 2013 21:34:24 GMT -6
That was very interesting Paul.. How did man get so intelligent so fast. Look at our history. One invention leads to another and another I guess. Speed of light isn't that something? They even say ufos are keeping a eye on this situation. When it does come man can head for the stars. Wish I could see it.
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Nov 13, 2013 12:35:37 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Nov 13, 2013 12:35:37 GMT -6
www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/257768/hawking-disappointed-by-higgs-boson-findHawking disappointed by Higgs boson findPosted on Wednesday, 13 November, 2013 Professor Stephen Hawking. Image Credit: CC BY 2.0 Doug Wheller Professor Stephen Hawking believes that the particle's discovery has made physics 'less interesting'. The world famous wheelchair-bound physicist revealed his thoughts on the discovery of the Higgs boson during a recent talk at London’s Science Museum during the launch of a new exhibit dedicated to providing visitors with a behind-the-scenes look at Cern's Large Hadron Collider. During the talk Hawking, who has suffered from motor neuron disease for most of his life, said that "physics would be far more interesting if it had not been found" and went on to talk about a bet he'd made over whether or not the particle would ever be discovered. "I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn’t be found," he said. "The Nobel Prize cost me 100 dollars." Hawking also spoke a bit about M-theory, the idea that our universe is but one of many and that the Large Hadron Collider will one day help to prove this to be true. "Each universe has many possible histories and many possible states," he said. "Most of these states will be quite unlike the universe we observe, and quite unsuitable for the existence of any form of life. Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist." www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/257768/hawking-disappointed-by-higgs-boson-find
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Jul 15, 2014 14:05:54 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jul 15, 2014 14:05:54 GMT -6
www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28218775 10 July 2014 LHC scientists to search for 'fifth force of Nature' By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News The next couple of years will be make or break for the next big theory in physics called supersymmetry - SUSY for short. It might make way for a rival idea which predicts the existence of a 'fifth force' of nature. Next Spring, when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) resumes its experiments, scientists will be looking for evidence of SUSY. It explains an awful lot that the current theory of particle physics does not. But there is a growing problem, provocatively expressed by Nobel Laureate George Smoot: "supersymmetry has got symmetry and it's super but there is no experimental data to suggest it is correct." Continue reading the main story “Start Quote There is less and less focus on supersymmetry and more people are starting to branch out into other models” Thibaut Mueller PhD student, Cambridge University According to the simplest versions of the theory, supersymmetric particles should have been discovered at the LHC by now. One set of null results prompted Prof Chris Parkes, of the LHCb to quip: "Supersymmetry may not be dead but these latest results have certainly put it into hospital". But other forms of the theory are still very much in play. Next year will be an important year for SUSY. The LHC will be smashing atoms together at almost twice the energy it did in its first run. Even those who are still strong advocates of SUSY, such as Cern's revered professor of theoretical physics, John Ellis, agree that if LHC scientists do not find super particles in the LHC's second run, it might be time for the hospital patient to be moved to the mortuary. "If it is not found in LHC run two then there will be relatively few corners it could hide," he told BBC News. "I know that at that point the community may decide that the guys who predicted supersymmetry are dying off like flies and that young guys will be interested in different types of theories and supersymmetry may be forgotten. But I don't think we are at that point yet." CONTINUE READING: www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28218775
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Oct 21, 2015 19:04:24 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Oct 21, 2015 19:04:24 GMT -6
Could scientists soon discover a parallel universe? New data from the extra powerful Large Hadron Collider is being analysed• 'Atom smasher' at Cern, Geneva is turned up to its highest level • This means it could detect miniature black holes - a sign of a 'multiverse' • Ongoing experiment at the LHC could shed new light on the universe •
By Sarah Griffiths and Ellie Zolfagharifard 20 October 2015
It has found the 'God particle', but the Large Hadron Collider could soon detect a 'parallel universe'.
The 'atom smasher' at Cern in Geneva is now operating at its highest level in a bid to detect miniature black holes, which are considered a key sign of a 'multiverse'. And data collected since June is now being analysed.
The experiment may alarm critics who fear the LHC could bring about the end of the world, but scientists say the ground-breaking experiment could transform our understanding of the universe.
'Just as many parallel sheets of paper, which are two dimensional objects (breath and length) can exist in a third dimension (height), parallel universes can also exist in higher dimensions' Cern employee Mir Faizal from the University of Waterloo told Dailymail.com.
'We predict that gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC.'
He said: 'Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualised.
'This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science. 'This is not what we mean by parallel universes. 'What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions,' ZME Science reported.
In March, Professor Faizal and his team calculated the energy at which they expect to detect mini black holes in gravity's rainbow.
'If we do detect mini black holes at this energy, then we will know that both gravity's rainbow and extra dimensions are correct,' he explained.
Since June, the energy with which the LHC smashes particles together is twice what it was during the time when it made the discovery of the Higgs boson, making the detection of small black holes possible for the first time.
Billions of particles flying off from each LHC collision are tracked at Cern detectors to establish when and how they come together and what shapes they take.
The Cern theoreticians say this could give clear signs of dimensions beyond length, breadth, depth and time. At such high energy gravity many be even tracked disappearing into them.
Parallel universes can exist within these dimensions, the theory goes, but only gravity can leave our universe into these extra dimensions.
If extra dimensions do exist, experts believe they would lower the energy required to produce black holes.
Professor Faizal said in March that the reason these black holes have yet to be detected is because our current model of gravity gets modified at very high energies.
According to Phys.org, in the latest study, the new theory of gravity's rainbow has been used to account for why the LHC has not yet found tiny black holes. Einstein's theory of relativity states that gravity is caused by space and time curving.
Gravity's rainbow says that space and time curve differently for particles of different energy. So, gravity's rainbow suggests that gravity's effect on the cosmos causes different wavelengths of light to behave differently. This means that particles with different energies will move in space-times and gravitational fields differently.
The new theory of gravity's rainbow (illustrated) has been used to account for why the LHC has not yet found tiny black holes. Einstein's theory of relativity states that gravity is caused by space and time curving. Gravity's rainbow says that space and time curve differently for particles of different energy.
Using gravity's rainbow, the scientists found that more energy is required to detect mini black holes at the LHC than previously thought.
Before June the LHC has searched for mini black holes at energy levels below 5.3 TeV. But the study said says this is too low. It predicts that black holes may form at energy levels of at least 9.5 TeV in six dimensions and 11.9 TeV in 10 dimensions so they could potentially be detected now the LHC is running at 13TeV.
If mini black holes are detected at the LHC at the predicted energies, it prove the existence of extra dimensions and by extension parallel universes, said Ahmed Farag Ali from Florida State University.
Mohammed Khalil told Phys.org: 'If black holes are not detected at the predicted energy levels, this would mean one of three possibilities: 'One, extra dimensions do not exist. Two, they exist, but they are smaller than expected. Or three, the parameters of gravity's rainbow need to be modified.'
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3280977/Are-scientists-discover-parallel-universe-Large-Hadron-Collider-powered-incredible-experiment.html#ixzz3pFf1EXbV
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Nov 4, 2015 15:59:32 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Nov 4, 2015 15:59:32 GMT -6
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2015/11/hacking-the-cosmos-physicists-analyze-cerns-vast-large-hadron-collider-data.htmlNovember 04, 2015 "Hacking the Cosmos" --World's Physicists Analyze CERN's Vast Large Hadron Collider DataAt CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator, scientists initiate millions of particle collisions every second in their quest to understand the fundamental structure of matter. The CERN image above illustrates a Higgs boson event from collisions between protons in the CMS detector on the LHC. From the collision at the center, the particle decays into two photons (dashed yellow lines and green towers) Argonne physicists are using Mira to perform simulations of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments with a leadership-class supercomputer for the first time, shedding light on a path forward for interpreting future LHC data. Researchers at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) helped the team optimize their code for the supercomputer, which has enabled them to simulate billions of particle collisions faster than ever before. With each collision producing about a megabyte of data, the facility, located on the border of France and Switzerland, generates a colossal amount of data. Even after filtering out about 99 percent of it, scientists are left with around 30 petabytes (or 30 million gigabytes) each year to analyze for a wide range of physics experiments, including studies on the Higgs boson and dark matter. To help tackle the considerable challenge of interpreting all this data, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory are demonstrating the potential of simulating collision events with Mira, a 10-petaflops IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. "Simulating the collisions is critical to helping us understand the response of the particle detectors," said principal investigator Tom LeCompte, an Argonne physicist and the former physics coordinator for the LHC's ATLAS experiment, one of four particle detectors at the facility. "Differences between the simulated data and the experimental data can lead us to discover signs of new physics." This marks the first time a leadership-class supercomputer has been used to perform massively parallel simulations of LHC collision events. The effort has been a great success thus far, showing that such supercomputers can help drive future discoveries at the LHC by accelerating the pace at which simulated data can be produced. The project also demonstrates how leadership computing resources can be used to inform and facilitate other data-intensive high energy physics experiments. CONTINUE READING: www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2015/11/hacking-the-cosmos-physicists-analyze-cerns-vast-large-hadron-collider-data.html
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Apr 29, 2016 10:24:39 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Apr 29, 2016 10:24:39 GMT -6
Awwwww,,,,,, Poor little weasel! Weasel halts LHC experiments after chewing on a power cableBy Jacob Aron
The world’s largest scientific experiment has been taken offline…by a weasel.
According to internal documents placed online, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva has suffered a power outage after the critter chewed on a 66-kilovolt electrical transformer. The unfortunate animal was fried and caused a CERN-wide power cut.
“I can confirm that we had some issues overnight with electrical trouble,” says CERN spokesperson Arnaud Marsollier. “We suspect it might be due to a small animal.”
It will likely take a few days to bring the collider back online, says Marsollier, but the equipment is fine and should be easily fixed. . The incident is reminiscent of a widely reported story in 2009 that a similar power cut at the LHC was caused by a bird dropping a piece of baguette on a substation, but Marsollier says that was a tall tale. “This was a story that was told, but we never knew exactly what happened,” he says, though as this latest incident demonstrates, it’s not impossible. “We’re in the countryside, you have wild animals.”
Before going offline, the LHC was gearing up to start colliding beams of protons again after a switch-off during the winter months. “We had collisions at low intensity recently, this is all part of the commissioning, we check that everything is working well, that the detectors are ready,” says Marsollier.
Physicists at CERN are keen to search for signs of a mysterious particle weighing in at 750 gigaelectronvolts, which was hinted at in earlier data presented before the switch-off. For now, that search will have to wait. “You never know with the LHC if it will take a few days or a bit more, but we will be back in action very soon,” says Marsollier.
www.newscientist.com/article/2086451-weasel-halts-lhc-experiments-after-chewing-on-a-power-cable/
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Post by auntym on May 9, 2016 12:08:19 GMT -6
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/05/the-totally-unthinkable-in-2016-cerns-lhc-may-unveil-unknown-dimensions-of-the-universe-1.html "The Totally Unthinkable" --In 2016 CERN's LHC Could Unveil Unknown Dimensions of the UniverseMay 08, 2016 Going beyond the Standard Model would "mean that there is yet another unbelievable idea out there. Something that is totally unthinkable," said CERN senior physicist Paris Sphicas. In 2016, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could unveil whole new dimensions, help explain dark matter and dark energy, of which we have no understanding but which together make up 95 percent of the universe. Late last year, before CERN shut down its LHC for a technical break, two separate teams of scientists said they had discovered anomalies that could possibly hint at the existence of a mysterious new particle that could prove the existence of extra space-time dimensions, or explain the enigma of dark matter, scientists say. The high-energy frontier has traditionally had one primary goal, to probe directly any uncharted physics waters. This has translated into the gigantic effort to complete the unobserved elements of the Standard Model of particle physics as well as to search for for signs of physics beyond.These measurements form a solid base from which searches for physics beyond the standard model have been launched. Since the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012, searches for supersymmetry and several signatures of possible new exotic physics phenomena have been developed, and new parameter space is being explored. In 2016, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful proton smasher, is preparing for its biggest run yet which scientists hope will uncover new particles that could dramatically change our understanding of the Universe. "We are exploring truly fundamental issues, and that's why this run is so exciting," Sphicas told AFP at Europe's physics lab, CERN, last week. "Who knows what we will find," he added, with CERN saying preliminary results from the run could be available in the next few months. Scientists had been gearing up to resume experiments at the LHC this week, but the plans were delayed after a weasel wandered onto a high-voltage electrical transformer last Friday, causing a short-circuit. CERN told AFP that experiments were now expected to get underway next week. The LHC, housed in a 27-kilometre (17-mile) tunnel straddling the French-Swiss border, has shaken up physics before. In 2012 it was used to prove the existence of the Higgs Boson -- the long-sought maker of mass -- by crashing high-energy proton beams at velocities near the speed of light. (A proton-lead ion collision, shown below as observed by the LHCb detector during the 2013 data-taking period LHCb/CERN). CONTINUE READING: www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/05/the-totally-unthinkable-in-2016-cerns-lhc-may-unveil-unknown-dimensions-of-the-universe-1.html
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Post by auntym on Sept 22, 2016 13:06:18 GMT -6
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/09/todays-galaxy-insight-weirdness-of-the-higgs-boson-a-dead-end-or-a-gateway-to-another-universe.html Today's 'Galaxy' Insight --Weirdness of the Higgs Boson: "A Dead End or Gateway to Another Universe"September 22, 2016 “Whatever we find out, that is what nature chose,” Kyle Cranmer, a physics professor at New York University, told bob Resnick at VOX. "It’s a good attitude to have when your field yields great disappointments." For most of 2015, evidence was suggesting that CERN's Large Hadron Collider had found a new subatomic particle, which would be a discovery surpassing even the LHC’s discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, and perhaps the most significant advance since Einstein’s theory of relativity. The Large Hadron Collider's 750 GeV diphoton bump registered at least one unambiguous conclusion the LHC physicists believed: they'd found something new. In the showers of proton collision byproducts that occurred during the 2015 run of CERN's ATLAS and CMS experiments, it seemed there was a new particle.But, nature had other plans, in August, CERN reported that the evidence for the new particle, what at first looked like a promising “bump” in the data, indicating the presence of a particle with a unique mass, was just noise, that the 2016 data failed to replicate the bump, indicating that the earlier observations were just statistical fluctuations. This has resulted in a general let down shared by many researchers in high-energy physics: The LHC managed to bag the Higgs boson, but as for bagging supersymmetry, a New Physics, the presence of a particle or interaction so-far unknown it appears nature wasn't co-operating. “It would be a profound discovery to find that we’re not going to see anything else,” Cranmer says, suggesting that supersymmetry isn’t the answer, and theoretical physicists will have to go back to the drawing board to figure out how to solve the mysteries left open by the standard model. “If we’re all coming up empty, we would have to question our fundamental assumptions,” Sarah Demers, a Yale physicist, tells me. “Which is something we’re trying to do all the time, but that would really force us.” An alternative possibility is that the the answers do exist, but they exist in a different universe. If the LHC can’t find answers to questions like “why is the Higgs so light?” scientists might grow to accept a more speculative out-of-the-box idea where there are tons of universes all existing parallel to one another. It could be that “in most of [the universes], the Higgs boson is really heavy, and in only in very unusual universes [like our own] is the Higgs boson so light that life can form,” Cranmer says. Basically: On the scale of our single universe, it might not make sense for the Higgs to be light. But if you put it together with all the other possible universes, the math might check out. The problem with this theory is that if heavier Higgs bosons exist in different universes, there’s no possible way to observe them. “Which is why a lot of people hate it, because they consider it to be anti-science,” Cranmer says. “It might be impossible to test.” CONTINUE READING: www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/09/todays-galaxy-insight-weirdness-of-the-higgs-boson-a-dead-end-or-a-gateway-to-another-universe.html
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Jun 10, 2017 10:58:49 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Jun 10, 2017 10:58:49 GMT -6
Can World's Largest Atom Smasher Solve the Universe's Deepest Mysteries?By Don Lincoln, Senior Scientist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Adjunct Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame
June 9, 2017
Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab, America's largest Large Hadron Collider research institution. He also writes about science for the public, including "The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Things That Will Blow Your Mind" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014).
Deep beneath the Swiss and French countrysides, a giant is awakening. No, this isn't the beginnings of this summer's latest blockbuster movie. The awakening is very real, if perhaps a bit metaphorical.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located at the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) laboratory just outside Geneva, is an enormous particle accelerator. IT IS THE LARGEST SCIENTIFIC FACILITY EVER CONSTRUCTED BY HUMANITY, WITH A CIRCUMFERENCE OF MORE THAN 16 MILES (27 KILOMETERS). AND AFTER BEING SHUT DOWN FOR ABOUT HALF A YEAR, IT RESUMED OPERATIONS IN MAY WITH SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED CAPABILITIES.
The LHC is most famous for its measurements that led to the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson particle, the last missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. The Higgs boson, along with the associated Higgs field, is the origin of the mass of all subatomic fundamental particles. Its discovery was a scientific triumph that took nearly half a century to accomplish. Indeed, after its discovery, in 2013, two scientists who predicted the Higgs boson's existence won the Nobel Prize in physics.
But with that success under its belt, why is the LHC still operating?
The search for the Higgs boson was not the only reason this facility was built. More broadly, the LHC was built to study deep scientific questions. For example, why are the laws of nature the way they are? How did the universe come into existence? And does the universe have to be the way it is?
These aren't new questions. After all, we find musings about these same questions in some of our most ancient writings, whether it be in the Bible (e.g. Ecclesiastes 12:13) or the Hindu Katha Upanishad . What's changed in the past century, however, is that the scientific method can now definitively answer some questions.
The Standard Model is the name for our modern understanding of matter. Using two classes of subatomic particles (called quarks and leptons) and three subatomic forces (strong force, weak force and electromagnetic force), scientists can use the Standard Model to weave together an explanation for the tapestry of much of the cosmos.
But the Standard Model doesn't answer everything. For instance, we don't know answers to simple questions such as, why are there two classes of subatomic particles, and why are there three forces? IS THERE A DEEPER AND MORE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE THAT UNIFIES THESE PIECES?
At an even broader level, scientists are now pretty sure that all matter on Earth (including what makes up you and me) constitutes a mere 5 percent of the matter and energy of the universe. The remainder is thought to be made of two proposed substances, called dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter appears to experience only the force of gravity and seems to make up about 25 percent of the mass of the universe. THE REMAINING 70 PERCENT OF THE UNIVERSE'S MASS IS DARK ENERGY, A PERVASIVE ENERGY THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE THAT CAUSES THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE TO ACCELERATE.
Even though we can't directly see dark matter, we see its effect because galaxies rotate more quickly than can be explained given the laws of gravity and the observed matter. The evidence for dark energy is more obscure, but still compelling. The expansion of the universe is speeding up. Ordinary gravity says it should slow down and a repulsive form of gravity is needed to explain the accelerating expansion. The name for that repulsive gravity is dark energy. There is still much to learn about the nature of dark energy.
In the future, the LHC could possibly make dark matter in the laboratory. The LHC accelerates two beams of protons to unprecedented energies and smashes them together. Using Albert Einstein's famous equation showing that energy is mass, E = mc^2, scientists hope to convert the enormous amount of energy that's released during collisions into matter — dark matter, that is.
The LHC can also re-create the conditions that were present in the universe shortly after the Big Bang. WHEN BEAMS OF PROTONS COLLIDE, TEMPERATURES INSIDE THE COLLIDER SHOOT UP TO 100,000 TIMES HOTTER THAN THE CENTER OF THE SUN, RE-CREATING THE CONDITIONS LESS THAN A TRILLIONTH OF A SECOND AFTER THE UNIVERSE BEGAN. ESSENTIALLY, THE LHC HAS ALLOWED PHYSICISTS TO CREATE THE BIG BANG IN THE LABORATORY, TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE RULES OF THE UNIVERSE THAT ALLOW US TO EXIST AT ALL.
Even more broadly, the LHC is an instrumentation of intellectual exploration. It generates conditions never before seen by humanity. My colleagues and I already have gobs of data from previous runs of the machine. Now, we need only dig through that data, hoping for discoveries and surprises that will divulge a few more of nature's secrets.
In essence, although the LHC has been an astounding success thus far — IT'S GENERATED MORE THAN 1,000 SCIENTIFIC PAPERS — IT'S REALLY JUST GETTING STARTED. BY THE END OF 2018, IT WILL HAVE DELIVERED ONLY ABOUT 3 PERCENT OF THE DATA IT IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE OVER ITS LIFETIME.
WE CANNOT POSSIBLY KNOW WHAT DISCOVERIES LIE BEFORE US. After all, if we knew what the answer was going to be, it wouldn't be called research. But we can be completely certain that the journey will be fascinating, and we can hope that this amazing scientific work, performed by scientists from across the globe, will reveal answers to some of the universe's deepest mysteries. And, stepping back and remembering the ultimate goal, eventually, and digging deeply enough, WE’LL FINALLY FIGURE OUT WHY ANYTHING EXISTS AT ALL.
www.livescience.com/59433-particle-collider-may-solve-universe-mysteries.html
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