Tuesday, September 9, 2008

A Quantum Leap in Particle Physics


This week, a group of scientists come together under a mountain at the French-Swiss border. The ground holds the Large Hadron Collider or LHC. It is a massive particle accelerator that aims to collide opposing beams of a special proton. This machine accelerates the protons in a long tube driven by magnets. It is believed that when activated and put into operation, the collider will create or produce the elusive Higgs Boson particle or god particle. This is the only standard model particle not observed before. The observation of this Higgs Boson would allow scientist to fill in the gaps in the existing standard model of physics. The project cost is around S$13 Billion. This LHC is also said to be able to dive into the secrets of dark matter.


Dark matter is believed to be the holding webs of the universe and galaxies. It exist only in space. The theory is that the dark matter has mass the gravitate the entire universe in a specific position and not just drift off.


Again, scientist play with the E=mc^2 theory.
Physics is fun.


This is the standard model of particle physics. Complex.

4 comments:

Giant said...

interesting. hope something comes out from this experiment. and just to pre-empt, no panzerz, there is no conspiracy theory.

this post also spurs me on to look for something great about bio.. hrm..

LimeX20A said...

LOL GLUE-ONS xD

Most probably, they're making this all so that they can discover the secret of making a bomb which is able to blow up planets using th mass of this dark energy, but is compct enough to be stored on Holy Terra.

^^

K said...

Who said anything about a conspiracy?

But does it mean Athiests win? LOL

LimeX20A said...

hmm...

maybe not LOL. hahahas When you die then you;d know who wins (;