Cern's Large Hadron Collider makes first collisions.
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8375486.stm


Here we go...in search of the Graviton partical, or rather, the search for 'where did it go'...and what ever else they are trying to accomplish...

The money spent on this is staggering, Check out pics below

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200..._collider.html


Peace

Re: Cern's Large Hadron Collider makes first collisions.
 

jross - "great achievement"... 'Smashing news'... :sweatdrop:

I read this one on the CBC news website:

Large Hadron Collider sends beams in 2 directions
Last Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...-collider.html

Or, check this: "Really, there’s no reason to worry." What was this about then, just nothing?

European Court of Human Rights Rejects Move to Shut Down Large Hadron Collider
http://hereticalideas.com/blog/?p=4568

Re: Cern's Large Hadron Collider makes first collisions.
 

Fascinating pictures ross! I did not realize it was so huge and the pictures were so interesting to see.

Thanks so much for posting!

Truth

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This is nice indeed, but what would they REALLY use it for?

My friend, Diego, told me that they could be using it to open up a portal.

Diego is kind of a medium, and didn´t got his conclusion from nobody else, thats what it came to his head... so , what do you guys think? :smoke:

GreenBeret

Re: Cern's Large Hadron Collider makes first collisions.
 

Cerns main objective (officially) is to find the theorized Higgs Bossom partical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

However they are also trying to find the Graviton Partical, theorized to exist. They will be looking for "where it disappears too' into a suspected 4th dimension.

Re: Cern's Large Hadron Collider makes first collisions.
 

im actually quietly quite exited by this, hope that they push the bounderies of known physics with this........but also hope that safety is a priority :wink2:
bou x

Re: Cern's Large Hadron Collider makes first collisions.
 

Wow! What a machine...with all of those parts it's no wonder it broke down

I wonder where all the money comes from to build something like that?

Re: Cern's Large Hadron Collider makes first collisions.
 

World's largest atom smasher breaks power record

GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher broke the world record for proton acceleration Monday, firing particle beams with 20 percent more power than the American lab that previously held the record.

The power of the Large Hadron Collider's proton beams is essential to the project's ultimate goal: smashing particles into each other with enough force to shatter them into the smallest building blocks of matter.

The early-morning test continues a recent sequence of successes that have elated scientists who were disappointed by the $10 billion machine's collapse last year during its opening in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel under the Swiss-French border. The breakdown required extensive repairs and improvements.

The collider fired two particle beams at 1.18 trillion electron volts early Monday, surpassing the previous high of 0.98 1 TeV held by the Chicago-area Fermilab since 2001, according to the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

Physicists measure the energy of the hair's-width beams, not their speed, because the protons are already traveling close to the speed of light and cannot go much faster.

One proton at 1 TeV is about the energy of the motion of a flying mosquito. When a beam is fully packed with 300,000 billion protons with 7 TeV energy — the goal of the LHC — it is like an aircraft carrier traveling at 20 knots. That is why the scientists are carefully learning how to run it and make sure all protection systems are working, said James Gillies, spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

For the rest of the article...
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/200911...g_bang_machine