Physicists hope to enter uncharted territory with Europe's new massive particle smasher - the Hadron Particle Accelerator - scientists say. The first photon beam is scheduled to be sent inside the facility on September 10
Particle accelerators have a simple main purpose: to smash atoms together or their particles - known as the elementary particles of nature - in order to find out what is inside them.
The results are often surprising and illogical, but with their help a wide variety of natural phenomena have been revealed over the decades. Physicists hope to gain new insights from bigger and more powerful accelerators.
The hadronic particle accelerator, LHC, will test "hot" and controversial theories when it produces data from its experiments.
On the same subject:
- Now it's final. The new particle accelerator is safe to use (Roi Cezna, 7/9/2008)
- The great Israeli contribution to the study of the small particle (Avi Blizovsky, 21/7/2008)
- Everything you wanted to know about the Large Hadron Collider (Avi Blizovsky, 31/5/2008)
- Is the Earth about to be swallowed by a black hole? (Yel Petar, 30/5/2008)
Potential breakthroughs may include answers to what created mass, and what dark matter is, which makes up most of the universe, physicists say. More exotic possibilities include evidence of new forces of nature or hidden dimensions of space-time.
"We don't know what we'll find," says Abraham Seiden, director of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, an American participant in the project. About half of the experimental particle physicist community in the US focuses their efforts on the two large particle detectors known as ATLAS and CMS, according to Seiden.
The Large Particle Accelerator is huge in every sense - its size, the speeds to which it can accelerate particles, the amount of data it provides, and the scale of the international cooperation involved. The powerful particle beams will rotate inside the ring-like facility 27 km long underground, of CERN, the European particle laboratory based in Geneva. After several examinations, the beams will enter a path within the detectors to produce a first collision.
Scientists say that the debris left from the collisions will completely change our understanding of nature. A milestone they hope to discover is the Higgs boson, a theoretical particle that fills the gap within the Standard Model of particle physics by being the one that gives particles mass. This should be confirmed by 2010, Seiden says, if the Higgs boson exists at all, nature has found another way to create mass. "I actually expect we'll find something unexpected," he says.
The Higgs particle is part of a theory known as the electroweak theory, which proposes a deep uniformity and symmetry between forces and particles, but also claims that the symmetry was broken a long time ago and is therefore not visible. The accelerator will reveal how the symmetry breaking happened, says physicist Howard Huber of the University of California. But detecting the Higgs is difficult, he adds, because different events may mimic the signals we observe.
Evidence regarding another grand theory, "supersymmetry", may also appear in the data from the accelerator. This theory predicts that every particle has a massive, invisible "super-closer". The theory creates a close connection between two types of families of particles, those that create the matter, and those that transmit the forces. In addition, supersymmetry predicts particles that could be dark matter—matter that groups of astronomers say can be detected through its gravitational effects, but is otherwise invisible.
Supersymmetry is in many ways a more exciting possibility than the Higgs, says theorist Michael Dean of the University of California: "In itself, the Higgs is a wonderful particle, so there are many hypotheses regarding new physics that are different from the Standard Model. Supersymmetry adapts itself in the fastest way to what we already know."
Ironically, theorists say the accelerator would be a huge advance even if nothing happens there, precisely because current theories demand that things do. "If we don't find anything beyond what is known today, it will be so radical, because it will be a violation of many basic laws," says Dean.
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All those who fuck with the date 10.09.08
It can't be, we're just moving with the times, that is
After September 10.09.08, 11.9.08, September XNUMX, XNUMX will come, time is getting longer...
So there is no countdown here at all..
A drop of computer, that's what I'm asking for!
What associations between today's proton crush and the nuclear fission of that time:
Are there new and proven physical theories that gave birth to the experiment and support it.
Or is it all based on modern quantum physics.
Do you expect to develop a proton bomb, from the potential of releasing energy with intensity and simultaneity. And what is her class?
Trying to understand how a system will be built.. a new system will indeed be built (which will harm the existing system) but according to our time it will take thousands of years.
good night cuties,
Dreams full of floating and floating.
If they find a way to create a "quantum black hole"
This could be the easy way to solve the energy problems of the human race.
Black holes are among the most radiating bodies in the universe because the matter that falls into them has to lose all its angular momentum and it does this by many collisions with other matter like it that rotates in a disk around the black hole. These collisions release a lot of energy. In order to use the black hole as a tool for energy production A charged substance with one charge must be thrown into it, so that a "charged black hole" is created and then they can stabilize it by repelling the plates charged with the same charge and extract the energy released from it.
I must point out that those poor people who think that the earth will explode, why?, because they will never be able to tell us: "We told you so!"
On the other hand, we who believe that nothing will happen can tell them with a hint of pride: "We told you there was nothing to worry about!"
Nothing will happen!!!
Just a controlled explosion!!!!
Everyone will be disappointed with the result!!!
Because after all... even science is not exact!!
For sure there is no doubt about it
Time 10:00 in the morning a red button that starts the experiment
You are a warrior
What time is the experiment according to Israel time?
I am looking forward to hearing the new discoveries! lol
Come on, he'll come soon =]
"Just someone" you exist thanks to people who knew too much. Take that into account.
Your nickname indicates that you are just someone...
A person does not need to know too much.
Hope the experiment won't do anything.
Lani and S
at 8 in the morning until 9.
Joining the question of s
To-:!
Patience, baby.
Does anyone know what time the experiment will take place tomorrow (according to Israel time)?
Hugin and Monin.. of Odin..
What do you write there?? I can't follow all the nonsense you write
To Kobe - in a nutshell: tomorrow they will make a plus or minus, just running and without collisions of particles. The device is safe to use because it performs actions that have been taking place in the universe since time immemorial and have not caused us harm, and the main difference between the particle collisions at the LHC and the collisions that happen outside of it is the ability to control and thus measure the activity
Yael
The most important discovery is the recognition of everything we have achieved until today..oops..tomorrow.
And again I mention the "recognition" that's the key word - it's a kind of sudden enlightenment, grasping the
The head suddenly says..Wow, how did we not see this until now! It was all the time in front of our eyes..We saw everything and we saw nothing until now..But now I suddenly understand, see, you are a whole
The picture!..that's why I do think that walking "to the edge of the experimental abyss" is important, for the sake of understanding
of the hardest in the shiny peaks, the most stubborn of all. This is actually my point
On this nice site.
Regarding processes, there are those for whom the threshold has not yet been reached, perhaps it is more difficult for them
from others, but they too will benefit from what happens at the vertices, and the discovery of the "hypotheticals" of sorts.
I will go further, since the hatch of my big mouth has already been opened.
The Jew, who went through the Holocaust (all of us).. and our connection to all the peoples of the world.. but.. later.
Can someone translate something from English to Hebrew for me here that I received in the email?
nothing bad will happen tomorrow because of the LHC. Tomorrow, a first beam of protons will circulate in one of the rings of the machine. There will be no collision yet.
The LHC is a perfectly safe scientific instrument. Nature makes particles collide at even greater energies since EVER. And we are all there, together with our planet. Collisions at the LHC will be EXACTLY the same as those produced by Nature. The laboratory environment is different only in the fact that we can control, and therefore measure these events while natural events are unpredictable and therefore very difficult to study.
Hugin,
If they discover nothing, it will be a very important discovery because it means that all our scientific theories are not acceptable in reality and that we need to find new theories - this is something that will change the face of physics.
And for all concerned,
The accelerator hopes to create a tiny black hole that will destroy itself instantly. The chance that this black hole will grow and swallow the Earth is really zero.
7.7 billion is a drop in the ocean stop complaining about giving the poor hungry sick disabled
It's so much more important than most things, you never know what discoveries it will lead to in the long run, it's a smart investment
Discoveries don't fall from the sky, you have to discover them
Even if it really makes a black hole, this is a huge discovery because as far as I know, no one has harmed a black hole directly, but only through its effect on the environment, so this is also a discovery
They threw 7.7 billion dollars on a toy that looks for the Higgs boson, they couldn't do research on cancer or AIDS or give the money to the poor and hungry in the world
In short: the article presents in the most diplomatic way the paradoxical questions we face
Today, all the judges of all times, and allowing all phases to remain, are ultimately "right".
The foundations of physics are laid."
The science that "the day after" will also be called: "The irony effect for solving the issues of being-and understanding them".
And the master of the sonnet, the runner of the kilometers of this site: maybe you will allow yourself, if only once, to be heard
Your lofty thoughts on the subject, in the most intelligent way, that you are capable of and through your shiny tassels (assuming, in the meantime, you may have washed a little, here and there). What do you think of the accelerator?
Or... we'll move on to the rings of Saturn..??
Answer to Mickey. impossible.
Just don't forget that thinking is a mental product, not a physical one.
The accelerator will not change the face of physics but will eliminate the world altogether
Stop them
Is it a coincidence that the accelerator will start working on 10.09.08? A date that is counting down from left to right, what about all the apocalyptic predictions we read about in the last few days?
: )
The saddest thing is that they don't find anything and nothing happens until they realize that the Bible has what they need and besides they are scientists not supposed to develop the science of the present what are they doing in the past or in the future will the quality of life and solutions to the hole in the ozone or the energy crisis be developed
I am quite convinced that they will discover new things and we will even get answers to some of the questions, but we will also ask a lot of new questions.
Question: How can you examine a system and understand it comprehensively if you are trapped inside it...
Don't think you think 😛
I don't think they will find anything unusual in the accelerator