Big Bang Experiment to Start This September
According to the project chief, Lyn Evans of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), a number of tests cleared way for the beginning in September of an experiment which scientists hope would show how the universe was created after the Big Bang.
Evans stated that the tests in the underground Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine went smoothly, without any problems.
"We look forward to a resounding success when we make our first attempt to send a beam all the way round the LHC," said Evans, the head of a multinational team of scientists that worked on the development of the LHC, which runs deep under the territories of France and Switzerland.
On September scientists plan to send a full particle beam around the LHC pipe in one direction. This will be a prelude before researchers send the beams in both directions to see them collide. Scientists from CERN and other laboratories around the world will monitor the collision of the two particle clusters on their computers. They will look for a special particle that caused the appearance of life.
Scientists hope that by recreating the Big Bang they will be able to understand how our universe expanded. The experiment will also show the way stars and planets came together out of primordial chaos that followed.
Previously, scientists at the United States failed to track the particle that made life possible. However, scientists consider that the LHC, which they say is a great step forward in the field of technology, will make the difference.
The particle, which scientists hope to find, was named the "Higgs boson". The name comes from a Scottish physicist Peter Higgs who was the first to suggest about 50 years ago that such particle must exist. Scientists believe that the boson is an unexplained factor that holds matter together.
Higgs, a 79-year-old Edinburgh University professor considers that the particle will show up very quickly shortly after the beams collide in the LHC.
After visiting CERN he said: "If it doesn't, I shall be very, very puzzled."
Source: Reuters
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//14 May 20, 2009 09:44 PM | posted by:
me - its wrong and foolish to try and play god and i feel that is exactly what they are trying to do. there are somethings that we shouldnt ask why about. simply because there are somethings we dont need the answer to. all the answers we need can be found in the bible. this project is a BIG MISTAKE.
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//13 Nov 14, 2008 12:40 AM | posted by: Jean - It's foolish to ask why their bothering to do such experiment. It's passion that pushes them to find answers. Scientists would work extraordinary just to find answers to change the world... to answer the bedazzling questions that sways in their heads! But still, even though humans are eager to know if there is a God or not, either sides can't prove it! Atheists cannot prove that there is no God cause they can't just say that there is no God! Christians too cannot prove that there is a God because they believe on what they haven't seen. And that, is what you call, FAITH. But of course, Atheists see it the other way around. To see, is to believe. Don't get me wrong, I believe in the Holy Trinity. What I would just like to point out here is the bottom line. If this big bang experiment ends up in a success, it proves it, that the world and the planets, the galaxies, stars... everything you see up there in space was made when planets collided with each other and turned out as it is to be with a great force of impact. However, that still won't prove that there is NO GOD for there is what us CHRISTIANS call... THE HOLY BIBLE.
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//12 Oct 14, 2008 10:19 AM | posted by: Courtney - Everyone who believes in God knows the Big Bang theory is totally not true.
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//11 Oct 14, 2008 09:59 AM | posted by: Courtney - Everyone knows the big-bang theory was made by atheists
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//10 Sep 16, 2008 07:04 AM | posted by: shaileshdas - Dont you have any work to do??????dont dare to challenge god....
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//9 Sep 13, 2008 11:45 AM | posted by: tom - when is the first experiment taking place
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//8 Sep 10, 2008 06:37 AM | posted by: RUFAT - DON'T PLAY WITH WORLD
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//7 Sep 09, 2008 11:01 AM | posted by: Neo - Well if any of these mini black holes were created, it would not suck the planet inside out, because black holes eventually give out what they have taken in(from the "Brief History of Time"). Which means it'll turn the Earth and everything on it into energy(radiation) or matter particle:P(ever wanted to travel at the speed of light? Here's your chance). And it is true that black holes eventually just evaporate, depending upon their mass.
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//6 Sep 08, 2008 11:49 PM | posted by: alana - whats the point! so they no what matter and all that bang stuff is all about people have livedfor 1 million yrs wif out it and can live th esame amount wif out knowing it , oh and if it kills them what was the point they wond haveno results plus theyd have killed th eentire earth God made things and they shoud learn to keep it that way. while the ppl in africa are starving and dont have the proper education and they go of and day werer gon naspend villions of dollars on a worthles experment ptupis if u ask me!!!!
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//5 Sep 08, 2008 06:42 AM | posted by: raybe - What a fantastic adventure into the unknown stop sukin all you sceptics and let world progression happen who knows it might even turn out that by discovering the truth as to how we all came to be may lead on to many medicine discoveries which could lead to better ways to cure people of diseases that are at present incurable. lets face it God is a myth otherwise why hasn't his power helped those in need and don't give me the crap because it's gods will. THERE IS NO GOD !!!
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//4 Sep 05, 2008 01:31 PM | posted by: DFA1 - Black holes coming! Yay! I can't wait to die!
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//3 Sep 03, 2008 08:14 PM | posted by: JC - well, we have a lovely addition from "SPARKZ" there, and as well as him sounding rediculous and being unable to spell, he does raise a point, the "big bang" is something that apparently happened, and we're all just going on through life as you usually do, who cares how the world came about and the universe?
Anything could happen as a result of this rediculous experiment.
Some scientists have said that it will create a mass black hole and the earth will be sucked in, in a matter of minutes, the moon is apparently going to shake, which could knock it off it's orbit from Earth. Scientists not got enought to do with the International Space Centre??
Find something less risky to do for gods sake. - 1 votes
//2 Sep 03, 2008 03:04 PM | posted by: Unknown - err.... I dont think this experiment is worth the risk. I don't think these scientist know that everything will DEFINATLY by ok. Its going to happen either way because they've spent Ј4.4billion and wont go back on their word through pride.
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//1 Sep 02, 2008 05:25 AM | posted by: Josh Derbyshire - the end is enar looks like
