HIGHLIGHTS LHC First Beam - Accelerating Science 1

Part 1 of a video released by CERN regarding the LHC first beam. Date- 10th Sept 08. Source- http://cdsweb.cern.ch/collection/Video%20Movies

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'First beam in the LHC - accelerating science A historic moment in the CERN Control Centre: the beam was successfully steered around the accelerator. Channel 1 : International Channel 2 : English guide A historic moment in the CERN Control Centre: the beam was successfully steered around the accelerator. Geneva, 10 September 2008. The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN1 was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the worlds most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 this morning. This historic event marks a key moment in the transition from over two decades of preparation to a new era of scientific discovery. Its a fantastic moment, said LHC project leader Lyn Evans, we can now look forward to a new era of understanding about the origins and evolution of the universe. Starting up a major new particle accelerator takes much more than flipping a switch. Thousands of individual elements have to work in harmony, timings have to be synchronized to under a billionth of a second, and beams finer than a human hair have to be brought into head-on collision. Todays success puts a tick next to the first of those steps, and over the next few weeks, as the LHCs operators gain experience and confidence with the new machine, the machines acceleration systems will be brought into play, and the beams will be brought into collision to allow the research programme to begin. Once colliding beams have been established, there will be a period of measurement and calibration for the LHCs four major experiments, and new results could start to appear in around a year. Experiments at the LHC will allow physicists to complete a journey that started with Newton's description of gravity. Gravity acts on mass, but so far science is unable to explain the mechanism that generates mass. Experiments at the LHC will provide the answer. LHC experiments will also try to probe the mysterious dark matter of the universe visible matter seems to account for just 5% of what must exist, while about a quarter is believed to be dark matter. They will investigate the reason for nature's preference for matter over antimatter, and they will probe matter as it existed at the very beginning of time. The LHC is a discovery machine, said CERN Director General Robert Aymar, its research programme has the potential to change our view of the Universe profoundly, continuing a tradition of human curiosity thats as old as mankind itself. Tributes have been coming in from laboratories around the world that have contributed to todays success. The completion of the LHC marks the start of a revolution in particle physics, said Pier Oddone, Director of the US Fermilab. We commend CERN and its member countries for creating the foundation for many nations to come together in this magnificent enterprise. We appreciate the support that DOE and NSF have provided throughout the LHC's construction. We in the US are proud to have contributed to the accelerator and detectors at the LHC, together with thousands of colleagues around the world with whom we share this quest. I congratulate you on the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider, said Atsuto Suzuki, Director of Japans KEK laboratory, This is a historical moment. It has been a fascinating and rewarding experience for us, said Vinod C. Sahni, Director of Indias Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, I extend our best wishes to CERN for a productive run with the LHC machine in the years to come. As some might say: One short trip for a proton, but one giant leap for mankind! TRIUMF, and indeed all of Canada, is delighted to bear witness to this amazing feat, said Nigel S. Lockyer, Director of Canadas TRIUMF laboratory. Everyone has been involved but CERN is to be especially congratulated for bringing the world together to embark on such an incredible adventure. In a visit to CERN shortly before the LHCs start-up United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon said: I am very honored to visit CERN, an invaluable scientific institution and a shining example what international community can achieve through joint efforts and contribution. I convey my deepest admiration to all the scientists and wish them all the success for their research for peaceful development of scientific progress. 1 CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. India, Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.'

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[OptikBlast]

@3008jeremy not the end of the earth...

[3008jeremy]

but the colliding of the protons would make an example of the bursting sun, this proves the moving universe but on the positiveness of this experiment, the negativeness is really scary because once the sun burst there is a chance to make a black hole..... according to CERN the black hole would get smaller and smaller to nothing (hawking effect) because of the earth cosmic rays

Does this statement proves that it would make a great experiment or would it make the end of the earth???..............

[3008jeremy]

WEEEE this is really getting exciting, a physicist myself wants to see this new exposition to know the real truth of the gravity, antimatter, dark matter and the black holes..........

LHC- gives the idea of einstein`s E=MC² that the faster the object it becomes bigger, the element proton that is so small becomes 25 times its mass and become bigger, also this LHC give einstein one of the impossible to think- objects moving at the speed of light the proton(-) with boosting pumpers of electron(+)

[ananiasacts]

Never have so many done so much so that so few could learn so little. But it's not like we really had any choice. Who's going to leave an interesting looking present unopened simply because it's dramatically over-wrapped?

[terorvlad]

how knowing that big bang happend is helping us ? i mean those Bill of euro would be more usefull in as donations for Haiti or Chile

[NEEDCARS]

So... what hapend did it create a black whole?

and if thats so, where did he say that?

[SouthEasternLoey]

you guys are so smart

[sergeant07]

i wish i could be there as a team and in the control room i realy like that

[crackmaster88]

they spend bilions of euros just to "understand" stuff? ..:WACKO:..

[jbshintaro69]

no thank u ....

but what does it say about einenstiens light theorys???...