World's largest particle collider busts record
May 21, 2015
A scientist looks at a section of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), during maintenance works in 2013 in Meyrin, near Geneva
The world's largest particle smasher broke the record for energy levels late Wednesday in a test run after a two-year upgrade, CERN announced Thursday.
"Last night, protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the record-breaking energy of 13 TeV (teraelectronvolts) for the first time," the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said in a statement.
The LHC's previous highest energy for collisions was eight TeV, reached in 2012.
In April, it started up again after a two-year overhaul designed to pave the way to experiments at 13 TeV. It has the potential to be cranked up to 14 TeV.
Experiments at the collider are aimed at unlocking clues as to how the universe came into existence by studying fundamental particles, the building blocks of all matter, and the forces that control them.
Before the upgrade, the LHC was used to prove the existence of the Higgs Boson, also known as the God particle, which confers mass.
That discovery earned the 2013 Nobel physics prize for two of the scientists who had theorised the existence of the Higgs back in 1964.
Wednesday's collisions at the giant lab, housed in a 27-kilometre (17-mile) tunnel straddling the French-Swiss border, are part of a recommissioning programme ahead of an even more ambitious roster of experiments, due to start next month.
Presentation of the Large Hadron Collider
"These test collisions were to set up systems that protect the machine and detectors from particles that stray from the edges of the beam," CERN said.
The LHC allows beams containing billions of protons travelling at 99.9 percent the speed of light to shoot through the massive collider in opposite directions.
Powerful magnets bend the beams so that they collide at points around the track where four laboratories have batteries of sensors to monitor the smashups.
Workers check equipment at CERN in February, 2015
The sub-atomic rubble is then scrutinised for novel particles and the forces that hold them together.
One teraelectronvolt is roughly equivalent to the energy of motion of a flying mosquito, CERN says on its website.
But within the LHC, the energy is squeezed into an extremely small space—about a million, million times smaller than a mosquito. It is this intensity which causes the particles to be smashed apart.
http://m.phys.org/news/2015-05-world-largest-particle-collider.html
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Acute, good! In other words, it is impossible to determine that yeast etc is necesary in the process of creating alcohol by studying alcohol alone. Therefore it is impossible to understand how alcohol can be formed by studying alcohol ALONE. This is exactly what I was saying. But you see, the study of alcohol enjoy alot, unlike mr universe. We can define other things as yeasts as to be not part of the concept 'alcohol.' This convenience fail when we apply to the universe as a whole.
Acute, and how exactly will we do that if you subtitue 'alcohol' with 'universe'? Unlike alcohol, 'Universe' must include, yourself, the space around you, time and the apparatus you are using such as the accelerators and the computers!! So the actual process of creating univers is ireplicable WITHIN THE UNIVERSE. This is exactly what I meant.
I just love it when conspiracy theorists rage about things they've gone about 15 years too little in school for to even grasp the basic concept of. ;)
Next they in the process of blasting the ocean floor starting June 1st ,2015...
hope that thing that suddenly appeared has something to do with preventing a catastrophe-there are illuminated masters in India and elsewhere who could tell them all about the beginning of the universe-for free-but hey, designing and building the thing was a boon for the local economy -and a couple guys probably got rich
http://crimsondreams.net/forum/alternative-media-news/1342-object-a...
"there are illuminated masters in India and elsewhere who could tell them all about the beginning of the universe-for free"
There are religious leaders all over the world who can TELL you their version of how things came to be, but none of them have so far been able to answer the detailed follow-up questions.
Until then, religion will always be in the backseat.
PS: What is an "illuminated master" anyway? A person who is under the control of Illuminati?
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