GENEVA – Fixing the world’s largest atom smasher will cost at least $25 million Cdn and may take until early summer.
An electrical failure shut down the Large Hadron Collider on Sept. 19, nine days after the $12 billion machine started up with great fanfare.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research recently said Monday that the repairs would be completed by May or early June. Read the rest of this entry »
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GENEVA – The huge particle collider built to simulate the conditions of the “Big Bang” will not restart until spring 2009 after a weekend technical glitch, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Tuesday.
A helium leak into the tunnel housing the biggest and most complex machine ever made forced CERN to shut down its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Saturday, just 10 days after starting it up.
CERN Director-General Robert Aymar said this was a psychological blow after a successful start of the LHC following years of painstaking preparation by skilled teams of scientists.
“I have no doubt that we will overcome this setback with the same degree of rigor and application,” he said in a statement. Read the rest of this entry »
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A 16-year old girl in central India killed herself on Wednesday after being traumatized by media reports that a “Big Bang” experiment in Europe could bring about the end of the world, her father said.
She drank pesticide and was rushed to the hospital but later died, police said.
Her father, Biharilal, said that his daughter, Chayya, killed herself after watching doomsday predictions made on Indian news programs.
“In the past two days, Chayya had asked me and other relatives about the world coming to an end on September 10,” Biharilal was quoted as saying.
“We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things, but to no avail,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Scientists involved in a historic “Big Bang” experiment to begin this week hope it will turn up many surprises about the universe and its origins — but reject suggestions it will bring the end of the world.
And Robert Aymar, the French physicist who heads the CERN research centre, predicted that discoveries to emerge from his organization’s 6.4 billion euro ($9.2 billion) project would spark major advances for human society.
“If some of what we expect to find does not turn up, and things we did not foresee do, that will be even more stimulating because it means that we understand less than we thought about nature,” said British physicist Brian Cox.
“What I would like to see is the unexpected,” said Gerardus t’Hooft of the University of Michigan. Perhaps, he suggested, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine at the heart of the experiment “will show us things we didn’t know existed.” Read the rest of this entry »
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On Sept. 10, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, will switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — a $6 billion particle accelerator that will send beams of protons careening around a 17-mile underground ring, crash them into each other to re-create the immediate aftereffects of the Big Bang, and then monitor the debris in the hope of learning more about the origins and workings of the universe.
Next week marks a low-power run of the circuit, and scientists hope to start smashing atoms at full power by the end of the month.
Critics of the LHC say the high-energy experiment might create a mini black hole that could expand to dangerous, Earth-eating proportions. Read the rest of this entry »
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CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research last year was sued for their globally funded particle accelerator experiment that will recreate the “big Bang” in a miniature form. The whole purpose of the experiment is figure out the origins of the universe and to understand it better .But not all physicists agreed upon the safety of this experiment some physicists claim that it could create a black hole or cause other catastrophic consequences destroying the planet. Here is a video of what could possibly happen if the experiment is attempted.
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