Hey, now, this is some great news, right? The
trouble-plagued Large Hadron Collider looks to be doing a bang up job in some of its primary tasks. After breaking the energy record previously held by the Tevatron particle accelerator back at the end of November, 2009, reports are now coming in that the
LHC is, in fact, producing some extremely high energy collisions. A research team led by MIT, CERN and the KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics in Budapest, Hungary have released a report detailing findings that the collisions are producing an "unexpectedly" high number of particles called mesons, subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark. The research is considered one of the first steps in the search for rarer particles, and the elusive, theoretical
Higgs Boson. The paper, published in the
Journal of High Energy Physics has led scientists to fine-tuning their predictive models for how many mesons will be found in even higher energy collisions. Hit the read link for the full, high energy news.
posted February 7th 2010 12:30PM
@fingers thats not a fire extinguisher thats a blackhole-plugging device
@fingers There are a lot more cautions taken place.
@307598 that may be, but +1 for you fingers. Good stuff.
@smazms Best comment ever! Thanks, it made my day :)
it's interesting to realize that the Web is basically a by product of LHC's design.
@huh
wha? the internet may have been a byproduct of C.E.R.N research but im pretty sure the L.H.C had nothing to do with it.
@weirdo557 the Web, not the Internet. The Web is essentially a by product of CERN's LHC project.
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/About/web-en.html
http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html
(sorry about any repeat, (#$#($#( commenting system)
That's great but not nearly as awesome as chicken fried bacon!
Could I get that in English please?
@Jaylittles531, sure: Trust us, it's awesome!
I really don't like to hear "unexpected" when dealing with this much power.
@zibraham Well, things would be quite boring if everything turned out just as we predicted it.
Physics are interesting because we know so little compared to how much we can find out. Einstein discovered that there is no such thing as time (he called it space-time not to freak out people too much). We are going to now find out that something else doesn't exist - maybe gravity.
Go LHC go!
@TOPSPEED gravity need not be a force. Actually it was Einstein who figured this out. So consider this: you'r in a rocket. You're on the bottom of the rocket, and a ball is floating above you. The rocket then accelerates at 9.8 m/s^2, the same acceleration as gravity. Seeing as you are inside the rocket, you don't know the difference from the force of inertia (the rocket moving) and gravity (which is, well, gravity). Therefore, the same thing that happens in the rocket must happen with gravity, because we've already proven they are the same thing. And in a rocket, then you are accelerating at 9.8 m/s^2, and you shine a flashlight, the light will 'bend' and the beam will eventually end up at the bottom of the rocket. Since we know the inertia frame (the rocket) to be the same as the gravitational frame (on earth) light would also have to bend here on earth. However, light has no mass, and since a force needs a mass to be a force, and gravity still acts on the light, gravity need not be a force. And I just proved that part of physics to myself right before my exam next week, so thanks for commenting on that. LOL.
@haubey "However, light has no mass, and since a force needs a mass to be a force, and gravity still acts on the light, gravity need not be a force"
Would this not also conversely mean that light is not exclusively energy. Though we perceive light as energy, can it not also be treated as matter? The essential Atomos idea is that all things, both energy and matter, are composed of an infinite number of smaller things. Is it not also possible that both matter and energy are made up of the same elementary pseudo particle, and that is why gravity holds influence over light. And is it not also possible to believe gravity hold influence over other forms of energy, though this fact is overlooked by the fact that we fail to notice minute influences of gravity over certain energies, due to our limited capacity to perceive energy?
e=mc^2, correct? Which means that within any piece of matter, it is composed of that which composes energy, only in stasis. If energy is standing still, is it still energy? If mass accelerates to or exceeds the speed of light, doesn't it become energy? Does this not, in fact, mean that both matter and energy are interchangeable, only discernible by their relative state of motion?
I believe that the Higgs Boson is merely a representation of energy in stasis or matter in an incredible state of motion. Also, I think that the true purpose of this experiment, the way they will determine the existence of the Higgs Boson, is not by a physical molecule that we can handle, but by the impact. That one molecule will become a Higgs Boson, while the other will bounce off of it, carrying with it modifications in the molecules nature that will allow us to discern physical evidence, or confirm with physical evidence, what we believe we know about the Higgs Boson.
Correct me if I'm wrong, though.
I think this is a fantastic experiment though, seeing as this can give us an even greater understanding of the difference in between matter and energy, as the Higgs Boson may be that razors edge, that one subatomic particle that resides in the gray area, limbo if you will, neither matter nor energy. It's practical applications can, abstractly, be limitless. From more efficient energy consumption/production, to light speed or near light speed travel. If we can learn how to manipulate matter after it has surpassed the threshold of C, that could mean we could travel vast, incomprehensible distances in mere seconds, or manufacture energy nearly, or absolutely, no fuel or waste output. This could also teach us to manipulate matter on a nano scale, allowing us to further miniaturize existing technologies, or develop newer, smaller and more efficient technologies. Though the information we gain from the one run of the LHD at full capacity will be far from all it takes, it will be the catalyst that triggers the future of technology.
Excited here!
Hope this will produce awesome results.
"Sub-atomic civilizations seized by mass panic as news of these collisions hit. Some preparing colonization mesons to escape to the next atom. Others building atomic bombs to retaliate."
@weirdo557 the Web, not the Internet. The Web is essentially a by product of CERN's LHC project.
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/About/web-en.html
http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html
Sounds like the ESL drivers where I live~ "Rots of Corrisions"
I hope they are able to hunt down the Osama Bin Higgs Boson with all of this fire power.
Word up ^^ to core science in Physics~
Could this title have made any less sense...?
To quote Thomas Dolby, SCIENCE!
Just like everything awesome, it's useless now, but we'll eventually find a use for it. Like the steam engine.
@mtnDewFTW, it exists that people like you ask what the point of it is. Then in 30 years when you are driving your hover car you might want to rethink about what's the point of all this.
What a coincidence: Dec 21, 2012... and LHC powering up with FULL power, where no-one has ever reached, in search of a particle that is predicted only theoretically, without noticing that how many other kinds of particles will be produced simultaneously... with physicist 100% sure of the outcome... The dates are coinciding like anything...better than expected...an experiment being carrying on for last 26 years... and operating to full power just an year before...what else can we say
its the luminosity which matters and the LHC will be trailing in that department for quite some time.
Why does it feel like someone missed a decimal point or something and 2013 is really 2012?