Tuesday, September 9, 2008

LHC

Today everyone is talking about LHC. And I’m excited about that as well.
Large Hadron Collider is the largest particle accelerator in the world. Today it’s going to be switched on and it‘ll be the first attempt to circulate a beam in it.
The main purpose of the experiment is to explore the theory of Big Bang(the standard model of particle physics) by colliding two beams of protons, which will generate temperatures more than 100 000 times hotter than the heat of sun and the detectors will observe the collision. This 27km-long scientific instrument will definitely change our conception of the Universe and its origin.
It’s said that there is a chance that this collider could produce “mini” black holes that could damage the Earth. There are a lot of "anti-LHC" materials in the internet(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzugu39pKM&feature=related), even a movie was shoot(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1vKisefsuI), and I think nobody has a 100% assurance of success, but there is a big percent that after a while new theories will appear in physics text-books.

See live webcast: http://webcast.cern.ch/

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