CERN LHC/ ALICE Experiment..!

02:14 PM

There's been a couple of threads in which theories behind all that LHC research at CERN got mentioned in possible relation to what might be going on with the island's physics- tomorrow's the big day for one important ALICE experiment! With or without relevance for LOST, huge event for science & people.

YouTube - Large Hadron Rap

(good rap!)

ALICE - A Large Ion Collider Experiment
(info on ALICE)

CERN,Large Hadron Collider experiment on Wednesday,10 September,2008 | Odeo: Search, Discover and Share Digital Media from Millions of Audio and Video Clips
(info on the experiment)

I have been Reading the news stories about this.. This experiment whether it works or not could lead to new and intresting things with understanding how the particles work.. I'm excited about this and if I find any updates on this I will be sure to post them here..

Thanks Flaneuse for posting this..

no prob.. so any reports of missing objects or flying rabbits from Switzerland yet?

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?

Guess not.

I read that the first trial runs and first run of it was sucessful.. That is good I would suppose..

Scientists beaming after test of big atom smasher - Yahoo! News

Here is a news story following the first tests for anyone who is intrested

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Originally Posted by LOST

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?

Guess not.

LOL. Thanks LOST.

10:16 AM

Some highlights from the article Wednighter gave the link to, above:

"The beams will gradually be filled with more protons and fired at near the speed of light in opposite directions around the tunnel, making 11,000 circuits a second. They will travel down the middle of two tubes about the width of fire hoses, speeding through a vacuum that is colder than outer space. At four points in the tunnel, the scientist will use giant magnets to cross the beams and cause protons to collide. The collider's two largest detectors — essentially huge digital cameras weighing thousands of tons — are capable of taking millions of snapshots a second.

It is likely to be several weeks before the first significant collisions.

The CERN experiments could reveal more about "dark matter," antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. It could also find evidence of a hypothetical particle — the Higgs boson — which is sometimes called the "God particle" because it is believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.

Smaller colliders have been used for decades to study the makeup of the atom. Scientists once thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of an atom's nucleus, but experiments have shown that protons and neutrons are made of quarks and gluons and that there are other forces and particles.

The LHC provides much greater power than earlier colliders.

Its start came over the objections of some who feared the collision of protons could eventually imperil the Earth by creating micro black holes — subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.

"It's nonsense," said James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN, which also received support for the project by leading scientists such as Britain's Stephen Hawking.

Gillies said the only risk would be if a beam at full power were to go out of control, and that would only damage the accelerator itself and burrow into the rock around the tunnel. No one would be endangered because the tunnel is evacuated when beams are being fired.

No such problem occurred Wednesday, although the accelerator is still probably a year away from full power.

The project organized by the 20 European member nations of CERN has attracted researchers from 80 nations. Some 1,200 are from the United States, an observer country that contributed $531 million. Japan, Canada, Russia and India — also observers — are other major contributors."

Thanks Wed. Gotta read a few of these to make sense what is really going on there at CERN

Think of all the possiblilities in the coming years for the scientific world.. Very intresting..

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