Big Bang Experiment Ready To Go TODAY - WEDNESDAY, September 10, 2008 at Centre Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire (CERN)
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Thousands of scientists have spent more than a decade building the Large Hadron Collider at the European Centre For Nuclear Research in Geneva.
By smashing atoms together, the machine will recreate the conditions just after the 'Big Bang' when the universe was created.
The machinery is housed in a 17 mile tunnel 100 metres beneath Switzerland and France. Atoms will race around at virtually the speed of light in an atmosphere colder than outer space.
The millions of collisions will create temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the sun.
Scientists hope that will uncover secrets about the universe's structure and reveal more about dark matter.
They also believe the experiment could confirm the existence of the so-called 'Higgs Boson', dubbed the 'God Particle', which would explain why some particles have differing mass. The theory is named after British scientist Peter Higgs, who developed it in 1964, but no-one has ever seen the particle.
Scientists have also dismissed claims that the experiment will create black holes to swallow up the planet.
Physicist Dr Pippa Wells said: "In the universe at the moment the stars we see don't explain how the stars and galaxies move around each other. There must be more 'stuff' out there."
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3 comments:
Some say Big-Bang is not due to explosion of atoms but merely expansion of atoms which have bloated from miniscule form to the form it is now and we're leaving inside.
I personally feel the outcome by reproducing the big bang theory might invoke natural disaster, as the regression that is produced from Proton, neutron radiations is much super powerful than nuclear atoms. If those energy is not caliberated well the impact could be disasterous. Rutherford and Mendeleev principles can't e wrong !!
hi suresh, good info, what happen the next ..i meant after that experiment...
Hi,
Scientists are still working to analyze the outcome of teh experiment. they say that the analysis make take as long as 15 years. :)
Suresh
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