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Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang'
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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.
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THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

    * The LHC is smashing together particles in a bid to unlock the secrets of formation of our Universe
    * It is operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva
    * The collider is housed in a 27km-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss border
    * The giant tunnel is located an average of 100m underground
    * The LHC is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator
    * The circumference of the LHC is 26 659 m, with a total of 9300 magnets inside
    * The magnets are cooled to an operating temperature of -271.3°C (1.9 K) - colder than deep space

    * Large Hadron Collider: A Guide

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.

'Strong force'

David Evans from the University of Birmingham, UK, is one of the researchers working at ALICE.

He said that the collisions obtained were able to generate the highest temperatures and densities ever produced in an experiment.

"We are thrilled with the achievement," said Dr Evans.
One of the lead-ion collisions, LHC One of the lead-ion collisions at the LHC

"This process took place in a safe, controlled environment, generating incredibly hot and dense sub-atomic fireballs with temperatures of over ten trillion degrees, a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun.

"At these temperatures even protons and neutrons, which make up the nuclei of atoms, melt resulting in a hot dense soup of quarks and gluons known as a quark-gluon plasma."

Quarks and gluons are sub-atomic particles - some of the building blocks of matter. In the state known as quark-gluon plasma, they are freed of their attraction to one another. This plasma is believed to have existed just after the Big Bang.

He explained that by studying the plasma, physicists hoped to learn more about the so-called strong force - the force that binds the nuclei of atoms together and that is responsible for 98% of their mass.

After the LHC finishes colliding lead ions, it will go back to smashing together protons once again.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11711228


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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang' [Re: LobsterSauce]
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:omgz:




No but really though, that is some amazing stuff :thumbup: ...






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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang' [Re: LobsterSauce]
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/ / / / / / / LISTEN TO MY MUSIC: E X E D / / / / / / /
The universe gives no fucks. And takes no fucks.
May His Circuits Ever Function

Edited by The_Ghost (11/09/10 04:10 AM)

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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang' [Re: The_Ghost]
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The_Ghost said:





exactly :smirk: ...



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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang' [Re: openmind]
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We were sent to hell for eternity :hellfire: Ø:omgawesome:h®
We play on earth to pass the time :foreheadslap:

Over-population the root of all Evil-brings the Elites Closer to the gates.

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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang' [Re: The_Ghost]
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The_Ghost said:

Shes a beauty.


Good god, i bet insurance is high as holy hell there.


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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang' [Re: collie man]
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/ / / / / / / LISTEN TO MY MUSIC: E X E D / / / / / / /
The universe gives no fucks. And takes no fucks.
May His Circuits Ever Function

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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang' [Re: collie man]
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collie man said:
The_Ghost said:

Shes a beauty.


Good god, i bet insurance is high as holy hell there.


actually its much cheaper than you think to insure planet earth, because if we all get swallowed up into a blackhole there's nobody left to pay.


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We were sent to hell for eternity :hellfire: Ø:omgawesome:h®
We play on earth to pass the time :foreheadslap:

Over-population the root of all Evil-brings the Elites Closer to the gates.

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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang' [Re: makaveli8x8]
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The god particle.

Shpongle made a song about this.

Interesting stuff.


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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang' [Re: RobMarley420]
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~The Cultivators Motherload~

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama

Live long and prosper.


Edited by Kada (11/09/10 06:41 AM)

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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang' [Re: Kada]
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Kada said:



Well the good news is that it looks like the experiment worked.
+1 Science

-1 God


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Re: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang' [Re: SmittysPawnShop]
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fascinating :awesome:


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