Large Hadron Collider appreciation group
September 12th 2008 07:47
Todays group: Large Hadron Collider appreciation group
2,710 members and counting
Group description:
"Humans have always strived to understand where the universe came from. Aristotle believed it could not have had a beginning and would not end. Immanuel Kant asked why, if there was a beginning, the universe had waited an infinite time before it began." -- Stephen Hawking
The year is 2008, somewhere between France and Switzerland 100 meters below the earth surface, a machine called Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be turned on. The 27 kilometers circumference tube will accelerate protons as close to speed of light as any object ever is accelerated by equipments of men. The protons are to be accelerated by powerful magnets and gain energy up to 7 trillion electron volts (a 3 Volts battery give electrons 3 electron volts, you do the maths how many batteries it would be). At the instant of collision, particles will be "popped out of nowhere" and the gigantic detectors such as ALICE or ATLAS will be used to witness the creation. New particles that have never been found are expected to be found (Higgs) and some theories like Supersymmetry is expected to be tested out. But best of all, no one really knows until that "start" button is pushed. There is so much more that there wouldn't be space in this page to write in.
"Today we visit Stongehenge or Great Pyramids, and we marvel first at their beauty and at the technological achievement of building them. But they had a scientific purpose as well; they were crude "observatories" for tracking astronomical bodies. So we must also stand in awe of how ancient cultures were driven to errect grand structures in order to measure the movements of the heavens in an attempt to understand and live in harmony with the universe. Form and function combined in the pyramids and Stonehenge to allow their creators to seek scientific truths. Accelerators are our pyramids, our stonehenge" - Leon Lederman, ex director of Fermilab, 1988 nobel prize winner.
Click Here to see the group (if you are a member of facebook of course)
My thoughts: My last post was a group who didnt like the LHC, so now just to be fair, this is for people who love the LHC. I just hope it finds what they are looking for and doesnt kill us all in the process.
2,710 members and counting
Group description:
"Humans have always strived to understand where the universe came from. Aristotle believed it could not have had a beginning and would not end. Immanuel Kant asked why, if there was a beginning, the universe had waited an infinite time before it began." -- Stephen Hawking
The year is 2008, somewhere between France and Switzerland 100 meters below the earth surface, a machine called Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be turned on. The 27 kilometers circumference tube will accelerate protons as close to speed of light as any object ever is accelerated by equipments of men. The protons are to be accelerated by powerful magnets and gain energy up to 7 trillion electron volts (a 3 Volts battery give electrons 3 electron volts, you do the maths how many batteries it would be). At the instant of collision, particles will be "popped out of nowhere" and the gigantic detectors such as ALICE or ATLAS will be used to witness the creation. New particles that have never been found are expected to be found (Higgs) and some theories like Supersymmetry is expected to be tested out. But best of all, no one really knows until that "start" button is pushed. There is so much more that there wouldn't be space in this page to write in.
"Today we visit Stongehenge or Great Pyramids, and we marvel first at their beauty and at the technological achievement of building them. But they had a scientific purpose as well; they were crude "observatories" for tracking astronomical bodies. So we must also stand in awe of how ancient cultures were driven to errect grand structures in order to measure the movements of the heavens in an attempt to understand and live in harmony with the universe. Form and function combined in the pyramids and Stonehenge to allow their creators to seek scientific truths. Accelerators are our pyramids, our stonehenge" - Leon Lederman, ex director of Fermilab, 1988 nobel prize winner.
Click Here to see the group (if you are a member of facebook of course)
My thoughts: My last post was a group who didnt like the LHC, so now just to be fair, this is for people who love the LHC. I just hope it finds what they are looking for and doesnt kill us all in the process.
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