Tech | February 08, 2010 | 20 comments

Report: Large Hadron Collider producing tons of awesome collisions

source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/report-large-hadron-collider-producing-tons-of-awesome-co...

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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.
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20 comments // Report: Large Hadron Collider producing tons of awesome collisions

  • royulery
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      royulery  

    • that large "hardon" collider should leave that poor higgs boson alone. it sounds like prison talk. mr. collider should keep his hardon to himself.

    • 1 year ago
  • melynda
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      melynda  

    • Maybe these 'high-energy' particles will be the answer to the oil crunch Richard Branson predicts? Anyways, who gives a poop whether the world is gonna end in 2012? Either it won't and we will go on being the asshole species we were meant to be, or it will and what do we know now? Nothing cuz our brains are fried and our bones are melting into the next million years' worth of FUEL. in the end WE ARE ALL FUEL. 2012 or 2089.

    • 1 year ago
  • bethopea
  • absworldone
  • bethopea
  • artemis6
  • absworldone
    • 0
      absworldone  
    • artemis6:

      i doubt that you could just walk in. although i know that they have allowed film crews inside to document what they are doing..

      maybe we can get a ticket & bring a camera & post our findings afterwards.

    • 1 year ago
  • Varex_Sythe
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      Varex_Sythe  

    • NO YOU FOOLS! IT IS NOW TOO LATE AND NONE OF YOU REALIZE THAT THE HADRON COLLIDER HAS ALREADY DESTROYED EVERYTHING THAT THERE WAS! ALL THAT IS LEFT, ALL THAT WE PERCEIVE NOW, IS MERELY THE PURGATORY THAT OUR DECEASED SPIRITS WALK THROUGH TO BURN OFF OUR SINS!

      THE SKY HAS FALLEN! THE SKY HAS FALLEN!

      Or not. Sometimes I feel it's good to keep doomsday sayers on their toes.

      XD

    • 1 year ago
  • absworldone
  • rickm8
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      rickm8  

    • I've been following this baby's progress for a while, good stuff! Can't wait to see what new and exciting info it churns out when it's running full force. This is info that will most certainly help us, not just useless facts.

    • 1 year ago
  • ras_menelik
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      ras_menelik  
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    • there's not a hole somewhere in this whole thing.

      Hadron Collider Set for Half Power

      CERN’s engineers and scientists decided in a meeting in Chamonix, France, this week to play it safe and operate the collider at only 3.5 trillion electron volts, or TeV, the energy unit of choice in particle physics, for the next 18 to 24 months.

      The machine, which has been in a winter shutdown since December, will be started up again around Feb. 20, ?!?(what day is it?)

      CERN said, and should reach its operating power in March.
      http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/science/06collide.html

    • 1 year ago
  • jubal
  • melynda
  • antoine_99
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      antoine_99  

    • That's weird. I didn't even realize the Earth had been destroyed by renegade black holes. I imagined more fire explosions and melting faces.

    • 1 year ago
  • jimmydaperv
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      jimmydaperv  

    • Higgs Boson particle= God Particle. Doesn't that sound a little sacrilegious. Remind anyone of the Babylon Tower? I don't wanna believe 2012 is the end, but this seems like a door better left unopened.

    • 1 year ago
  • absworldone
  • ahappymintleaf
  • mindcruzer
  • CalPal
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      CalPal  

    • And not a single bird dropped a baguette, no black holes are formed, dragons are not mysteriously appearing around the LHC site...

      Sounds like fun times. Wonder when will they make "the collison", though, and what'll happen?

      ... You know, the one collision that's suppose to reveal the Higgs Boson particle? Or did people forget the purpose of the LHC due to the media fear hype?

    • 1 year ago
  • griffinfinity
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      griffinfinity  

    • So the LHC is attempting to find the "elusive, theoretical Higgs Boson" (God particle). Afterwards, I vote that we have it attempt to find the elusive, theoretical Lennon Ono (Peace particle)...

    • 1 year ago
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