[Quote]Dr David Evans: "From conception to design and building this, it's taken about 20 years."
The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a "mini-Big Bang" by smashing together lead ions instead of protons.
The scientists working at the enormous machine on Franco-Swiss border achieved the unique conditions on 7 November.
The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun.
The LHC is housed in a 27km-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss border near Geneva.
Up until now, the world's highest-energy particle accelerator - which is run by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) - has been colliding protons, in a bid to uncover mysteries of the Universe's formation.
Proton collisions could help spot the elusive Higgs boson particle and signs of new physical laws, such as a framework called supersymmetry.
But for the next four weeks, scientists at the LHC will concentrate on analysing the data obtained from the lead ion collisions.
This way, they hope to learn more about the plasma the Universe was made of a millionth of a second after the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago.
One of the accelerator's experiments, ALICE, has been specifically designed to smash together lead ions, but the ATLAS and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiments have also switched to the new mode.
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awesome :buddy:
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[QUOTE=helpiminabox;25943766]Well, it's nice to know that we're all still alive.[/QUOTE]
I actually expected the test to create a new substance,but we'll find out later lol.
Well, it's nice to know that we're all still alive.
Might want to fix your source link though.
fuckin' awesome
Science!
I don't think many people will realize just how big of a deal this is. Now if only they could have sustained the reaction in a vacuum.
And General_Xing said it wouldn't work, ha.
"mini Big-bang" is somewhat of a misnomer but this is awesome nonetheless
[QUOTE=helpiminabox;25943766]Well, it's nice to know that we're all still alive.
Might want to fix your source link though.[/QUOTE]
That was meant to happend :ninja:
can't wait for four weeks from now
i made it work
Really awesome. I hope we get to know more after this.
I know this really cool, but I don't know why. I hope I can learn soon.
[QUOTE=PariahKing;25943851]I know this really cool, but I don't know why. I hope I can learn soon.[/QUOTE]
Well appart from the fact they managed to do this with lead ions which is pretty impressive (lead ain't light) They are also one step further towards finding the Higgs boson, and who knows what that will lead to
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I actually expected the test to create a new substance,but we'll find out later lol.[/QUOTE]
:confused:
Are you a physicist or something?
I am really interested what the result is going to be!
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;25943969]Well appart from the fact they managed to do this with lead ions which is pretty impressive (lead ain't light) They are also one step further towards finding the Higgs boson, and who knows what that will lead to[/QUOTE]
AN EVEN BIGGER PARTICLE ACCELERATOR!
One that circles around the sun and collides blocks of Tungsten.
[QUOTE=Billiam;25944024]AN EVEN BIGGER PARTICLE ACCELERATOR!
One that circles around the sun and collides blocks of Tungsten.[/QUOTE]
You load a Volkswagen in both ends and turn it on
[QUOTE=Billiam;25944024]AN EVEN BIGGER PARTICLE ACCELERATOR!
One that circles around the sun and collides blocks of Tungsten.[/QUOTE]
I read somewhere that to prove string theory, You will need a accelerator the size of a galaxy.
Meetup in my garage. The project starts now :science:
SCIENCE :eng101:
I still don't understand the importance.
[QUOTE=BreenIsALie;25944143]I read somewhere that to prove string theory, You will need a accelerator the size of a galaxy.
Meetup in my garage. The project starts now :science:[/QUOTE]
With an accelerator the size of a galaxy is would take thousands if not millions of years for the particles to crash. I just found that kind of interesting.
Man would it be cool to work on something like that.
Also "The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun" what the hell is that right?
Is it just me or is science progressing faster and faster each day?
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Also "The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun" what the hell is that right?[/QUOTE]
It could be. Keep in mind that the area this temperature would cover would be incredibly tiny and wouldn't come anywhere close to the energy stored in the centre of the sun.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;25944258]With an accelerator the size of a galaxy is would take thousands if not millions of years for the particles to crash. I just found that kind of interesting.[/QUOTE]
Plus building and transport of materials, That will take some time. I don´t think NASA is up for it yet
[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;25944334]It could be. Keep in mind that the area this temperature would cover would be incredibly tiny and wouldn't come anywhere close to the energy stored in the centre of the sun.[/QUOTE]
And don't forget to take into account that it would last for less than a second.
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[QUOTE=BreenIsALie;25944358]Plus building and transport of materials, That will take some time. I don´t think NASA is up for it yet[/QUOTE]
Well of course there are the obvious reasons for it being impossible, but it would take around 314159 years for the particles to travel right around our galaxy at the speed of light. Just an interesting fact for the day.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;25944261]Also "The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun" what the hell is that right?[/QUOTE]
temperature is just a measure of the average energy level of the stuff you're looking at
keep in mind that you have a small number of atoms with an insanely high energy level; the average turns out pretty high, but compare the actual energy level with stuff we encounter day-to-day and you'll find it's insignificant
Is it ironic i'm listening to Split the Atom by Noisia?
About time.
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