T H E O R Y O F E V E R Y T H I N G
And welcome back to the stone age. You'd think that we'd moved on from striking two flints together and seeing what the pretty sparks do. But no. Here we are again. This time the technology looks so much more impressive; but essentially the process is the same. Physicists will swamp you in science, but stand your ground; all they are doing is smashing two objects together and seeing what happens. When stone age man engaged in this process he got an immediate and practical result; and his discovery is still in use today. Ask someone at CERN what all their work has produced....simple answer; nothing much...so far.
Cost of lighter: 89p. Cost of LHC: £6.19bn.
But has it produced nothing? It's estimated that they've actually created over 200,000 'mini-big bangs'. According to the many worlds theory every time that a pair of particles collide creates a quantum event with multiple potential outcomes and therefore multiple potential universes to accommodate them. As we know in a 'fractal' universe scale loses meaning and time is merely a construct of the human consciousness. A mini-big bang in our universe could be a mega-big bang somewhere else. Maybe there was a Large Hadron Collider in a distant universe that created our big-bang. Or maybe we are in the process of creating our own causal event...just a thought.
Cost of lighter: 89p. Cost of LHC: £6.19bn.
But has it produced nothing? It's estimated that they've actually created over 200,000 'mini-big bangs'. According to the many worlds theory every time that a pair of particles collide creates a quantum event with multiple potential outcomes and therefore multiple potential universes to accommodate them. As we know in a 'fractal' universe scale loses meaning and time is merely a construct of the human consciousness. A mini-big bang in our universe could be a mega-big bang somewhere else. Maybe there was a Large Hadron Collider in a distant universe that created our big-bang. Or maybe we are in the process of creating our own causal event...just a thought.
Large Hadron Collider creates 'mini Big Bang' with lead ions
The Large Hadron Collider has succeeded in recreating a miniature version of the Big Bang by smashing stripped-down lead atoms together. The reaction created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun, which have not been reached since the first billionths of a second following the Big Bang. This was expected to cause atomic particles such as protons and neutrons to melt, producing a "soup" of matter in a state previously unseen on Earth. Scientists, including British particle physicists, will now study the particles in the hope of discovering what holds atoms together and gives them their mass. The collisions were produced by firing lead ions – atoms with their electrons removed – at incredible speeds in opposite directions around the LHC's underground tunnel at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva. The heavyweight particle collisions follow seven months of earlier experiments crashing protons – which are 200 times lighter than lead ions – at near-light speeds. The TELEGRAPH Wednesday 03 August 2011 |
“With the LHC running so well in 2010, and further improvements in performance expected, there’s a real chance that exciting new physics may be within our sights by the end of the year.
"For example, if nature is kind to us and the lightest supersymmetric particle, or the Higgs boson, is within reach of the LHC’s current energy, the data we expect to collect by the end of 2012 will put them within our grasp.” Sergio Bertolucci CERN Research Director |