Birth of The Universe Re-created: Collider Generates ‘Mini Big Bang’
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UK Researchers working at the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator on the Franco-Swiss border are nearly set to create the Big Bang on a miniature scale.
Mini-versions of the ‘Big Bang’ which gave birth to the universe almost 14 billion years ago have been created within the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the giant machine probing the nature of matter near Geneva.
British scientists working on the LHC’s ALICE experiment were today celebrating the achievement, which opens up a new era in particle physics research.
Since 2009, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been smashing protons together, trying to shed light on the essential nature of matter.
But for the upcoming experiments, planned for early November and running for four weeks, the team will have the accelerator collide lead ions instead.
The collider, managed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), consists of four different experiments and one of them, ALICE, has been designed to smash lead ions together. The goal of the collisions will be to investigate what the Universe looked like at the time of the Big Bang.
More: http://www.theblogismine.com/2010/11/08/birth-of-the-universe-re-created-collide...
Mini-versions of the ‘Big Bang’ which gave birth to the universe almost 14 billion years ago have been created within the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the giant machine probing the nature of matter near Geneva.
British scientists working on the LHC’s ALICE experiment were today celebrating the achievement, which opens up a new era in particle physics research.
Since 2009, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been smashing protons together, trying to shed light on the essential nature of matter.
But for the upcoming experiments, planned for early November and running for four weeks, the team will have the accelerator collide lead ions instead.
The collider, managed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), consists of four different experiments and one of them, ALICE, has been designed to smash lead ions together. The goal of the collisions will be to investigate what the Universe looked like at the time of the Big Bang.
More: http://www.theblogismine.com/2010/11/08/birth-of-the-universe-re-created-collide...
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