Big Bang experiment on this Wednesday

[Cowke]

This seems to be an interesting experiment, I remember they were planning this a few years ago in switzerland or france from memory.

 

It is excellent news to see that it has gone forward, let's just hope they don't blow up the world during the process!!!

 

These sorts of scientific research is very useful because if we know how the world was formed, we will know how to manage it.

 

Think about a car, unless you know how the car is formed together, how can a mechanic diagnose and fix it? This is why mechanics need to go to mechanic school and learn the ins and out of cars and its formation.

 

I eagerly await this experimentation to see a glimpse of how this vast universe we live in today that started roughly 14 billion years ago came to be. Truly remarkable. Thank you nuune for this useful piece.

[Allamagan]

whatever happened to this Big Bang experiment!!!

[Dhagax-Tuur]

^Something went wrong, and then instead of fixing the collider, they've started hunting Muslim scientists (The Algerian origin, French citizen) last I heard of.

[SeeKer]

^He was linked to Al-Qaeda. Its the Higgs Boson particle I tell you. It is ensuring that nuune's black hole doesn't become a reality. :cool:

[nuune]

News from The Large Hadron Collider at Cern

 

Particles are back in the LHC!

 

During the last weekend (23-25 October) particles have once again entered the LHC after the one-year break that followed the incident of September 2008.

 

Friday afternoon a first beam of ions entered the LHC clockwise beam pipe through the TI2 transfer line. The beam was successfully guided through the ALICE detector until point 3 where it was dumped.

 

During the late evening on Friday, the first beam of protons also entered the LHC clockwise ring and travelled until point 3. In the afternoon of Saturday, protons travelled from the SPS through the TI8 transfer line and the LHCb experiment, until point 7 where they were dumped.

 

All settings and parameters showed a perfect functioning of the machine, which is preparing for its first circulating beam in the coming weeks.

 

 

 

 

 

The first ion beam entering point 2 of the LHC, just before the ALICE detector (23 October 2009).

[nuune]

UPDATE: Mini-Big Bangs created in cosmos origins project

 

 

* Scientists collide particles at highest energy ever

 

* Success hailed as huge step in understanding universe

 

* Mysterious dark matter, new dimensions may be found

 

 

GENEVA, March 30 (Reuters) - Physicists smashed sub-atomic particles into each other with record energy on Tuesday, creating thousands of mini-Big Bangs like the primeval explosion that gave birth to the universe 13.7 billion years ago.

 

Scientists and engineers in control rooms across the sprawling European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva burst into applause as the $9.4 billion project to probe the origins of the cosmos scored its first big success.

 

"This opens the door to a totally new era of discovery," said CERN's director of research Sergio Bertolucci. "It is a step into the unknown where we will find things we thought were there and perhaps things we didn't know existed."

 

"It just shows what we can do in pushing knowledge forward on where we came from, how the early universe evolved," CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer said, speaking, like Bertolucci, on a video relay from Tokyo.

 

Colourful images of the collisions, at the centre of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project which will continue for over a decade, were flashed onto screens across CERN.

 

CERN scientists say the images reflect what happened a fraction of a second after the Big Bang as matter and energy was spewed out, leading to the formation of galaxies stars and planets, and eventually the appearance of life.

 

 

HUGE VOLUMES OF DATA

 

Over the coming months and years some 10,000 researchers in laboratories around the globe, as well as at CERN, will analyse the huge volumes of data that will be produced from billions of LHC particle collisions to see how that happened.

 

Among stuff of the universe they hope to track down are invisible dark material making up 25 percent of the cosmos, a particle dubbed the Higgs boson that gives mass to matter, and perhaps new dimensions to add to the four already known.

 

"These are the known unknowns, but there are unknown unknowns out there which could make us radically revise our view of how the universe works," Bertolucci said.

 

Soon after 1100 GMT on Tuesday, and after two efforts earlier in the day were aborted due to technical glitches, the LHC slammed beams of particles together at a collision energy of 7 TeV, or 7 million million electron volts.

 

This was three and a half times more than ever achieved in a particle accelerator. The particle beams were travelling at a fraction under the speed of light when they hit each other in a tunnel 100 metres (330 feet) under the Swiss-French border.

 

Oliver Buchmueller, a German physicist on the project, said hard information on what the many billions of collisions over the coming years reveal would emerge only slowly.

 

"But by the end of 2010 we think we will find evidence of dark material," he added. The Higgs boson was likely to prove more elusive, and perhaps appear only after 2013, when the collider is boosted to collision energy of 14 TeV.

 

The boson is named after Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed it three decades ago to explain how the disparate matter produced by the Big Bang was converted to mass.

 

The earlier delays were due to problems with the power supply and an over-sensitive magnet safety system. This led the physicists to suspend the mega-power particle collisions.

 

CERN officials insisted it was not a repeat of a major incident in September 2008 that seriously damaged parts of the LHC and delayed the full launch of the project until now.

 

They also dismissed suggestions from some outside scientists -- echoed by doomsday theorists -- that the fleeting mini-black holes that the project is likely to produce could sooner or later swallow up the Earth.

 

 

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[Abwaan]

Originally posted by J.a.c.a.y.l.b.a.r.o:

Iyaguun baaa daali ..........

lol...runtaa.

[B]

nuune, are you trying to tell us your a scientist with this thread and the fact you constantly reawaken it, with elaborate diagrams and complex scientific stuff?

[Kamaavi]

Nune waa duuliye sare ,,,, maryooley aflaxay weeyi ,,,, scientist inuu noqddo waxba kuma aha....