Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Whew!!!! No end of the world (LHC experiment)-1

I am referring to the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) experiment which started on September 10 2008. This experiment is being conducted by CERN the place where the WWW (World Wide Web) was invented by Tim Berners-Lee.
The LHC is a particle accelerator which means it smashes particles into each other at very high speeds. This experiment also known as the Big Bang project aims to re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang in an attempt to answer fundamental questions of science and the universe itself.
It will answer the following questions
What is the origin of mass?
Why do tiny particles weigh the amount they do?
It will also confirm the existence of Higgs Boson.

The experiments of LHC had sparked fears among the public that it would created microscopic black holes which would then gobble up everything and this would be the end of the world.
The scientists at CERN have run the experiments successfully and proven the fear of doomsday to be just a rumour.
These theories are really and warrants another post in detail later.

As for now no blackholes or strangelets so no end of the world

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