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Large Hadron Collider Experiment Fundamental Particles That Make Up Entire Universe? Moments After the Big Bang? What Gives Particles Mass? Higgs Field? Biggest Jump Into the Unknown Michio Kaku: Mini Black Holes and the Large Hadron Collider Potential to Create a Black Hole That Will Destroy Earth? Eleven Dimensions? Superstrings? Did Physicist Answer to God Question Kill Super Collider in Texas? - - - Large Hadron Collider http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html - - - Excerpt: Our understanding of the Universe is about to change... The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles - the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionise our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe. Two beams of subatomic particles called 'hadrons' - either protons or lead ions - will travel in opposite directions inside the circular accelerator, gaining energy with every lap. Physi- cists will use the LHC to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, by colliding the two beams head-on at very high energy. Teams of physicists from around the world will anal- yse the particles created in the collisions using special detec- tors in a number of experiments dedicated to the LHC. There are many theories as to what will result from these col- lisions, but what's for sure is that a brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator, as knowledge in particle physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe. ... - - - end excerpt - - - - - - September 10, 2008 First Beam For Large Hadron Collider, World's Mightiest Particle Accelerator http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080910180851.htm - - - Excerpts: ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 2008) - An international collaboration of scientists today sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the 17-mile-long underground circular path of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator, located at the CERN lab- oratory near Geneva, Switzerland. The scientists also accelerated a second beam of protons through the path in the opposite direction, the goal being head-on collisions of protons that can offer clues to the origin of mass and new forces and particles in the universe. The second beam made one turn around the LHC. ... the LHC's Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, a large particle-capturing detector whose discoveries are expected to help answer questions such as: Are there undiscovered principles of nature? What is the origin of mass? Do extra dimensions exist? What is dark matter? How can we solve the mystery of dark energy? And how did the universe come to be? "After many years of preparation, particle physics is taking a huge step towards understanding whether our theories about the origin of mass are correct and whether there is new physics that can explain dark matter and help us under- stand dark energy and the origin of the universe" ... ... "We are now on the verge of making hopefully many dis- coveries over the next years in our understanding of particle physics and how the universe works. For the first time in a long time, we will be breaking new ground. We may discover the Higgs boson; we may discover supersymmetry. We may discover completely new and unexpected phenomena, which would be by far the most exciting prospect." ... - - - end excerpts - - - |
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