CERN - Big Bang Experiment - Animated demo

[gaelynsgirl]

Gives new meaning to 'Weightwatchers' .... hehe.. Great demo! Thanks!

[UltimateLoquendo91]

We should not play at be God...

[Cr4pSnip3r]

@UltimateLoquendo91 Yes we should!

[MrQueenie]

Can I try this at home?

[jrocket97]

Now just apply this to a nuclear power generator and energy problem solved.

[GoldenDevilCF]

BIG BANG RULEZ! CERN, LHC... the best EVER!

[viejoca]

.......can it go to warp speed?

[JorgeDX3]

What is supposed to happen when they collide?

[Moeclone]

@JorgeDX3

Thing takes protons and breaks them up into even smaller "elementary particles". If everything goes right, it will prove or disprove the existence of the "higgs boson": the source of mass. It also could prove/disprove other theories such as extra dimensions predicted by the string theory and recreate the conditions found shortly after the creation of the universe.

tl;dr This thing is a huge microscope powerful enough it could even find Rush Limbaugh’s dignity.

[Bayoneter]

the big bang was a collision of 2 dementions 2 and 4 which made this one the 3

[beshmao91]

to me, whilst i can fully grasp the concept of particle acceleration, the sheer magnitude of this undertaking is overwhelming. I mean i actually felt alittle frightened when he stated the protons run the circumference of the LHC 11,000 times a second. That kind of speed is simply astounding when considering it is man made. I am in awe of everything about atomic science.

[spiderheiress]

@beshmao91

It blows my mind that we have the technology to conduct this kind of experiment. I read today that this machine has the potential to reveal dark matter. I recall reading some time ago that people were afraid the machine would create a mini black hole.

I still don't really understand how the explosion is contained.

[aerowenn]

@spiderheiress The collisions aren't even perceivable by human senses, they are 14 TeV in total which is 14x10^12 eV, one joule is equal to about 6x10^18 eV. Little math and the collisions are equal to about 2x10^-6 joules. So roughly 2 one millionth of a joule. I think a typical firecracker has around 500 joules of energy when it explodes, we're talking about 4.5 billionths of the energy contained in that.

[khashayar8913]

I think it's the ultimate levels of physics

[PaoloCondo]

lol no. that's quantum physic

[lorent123]

This video is pretty awesome, the only thing is that to really understand all this process, we have to do a PHD or more maybe a master in physics...

[Rasmus95dk]

Don't play with Nitrogen

[QuantumMan49]

sweet video, i've always defended the LHC against mindless simpletons that think its going to destroy the world, now i can just send them a link to this =)

[gmpep3]

thank goodness for really, really, really smart people!

[svenvbins]

That's a very nice and clear video! I've been to the CERN this week, and it's cool to see an animation about it now. I'm trying something similar for a presentation, but it's nowhere near this quality :P