LHC Sets Collision Record - New Era For Particle Physics

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CERN News: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) sets collision record - new era in the history of particle physics.

Spotlight on CERN - LHC First Physics -- On March 30th 2010, first high-energy collisions took place at 7 TeV in the LHC, creating a phenomenal quantity of data. This not only marked the start of a new era for particle physics but also presents an enormous challenge in the field of computing, in terms of data transfer, storage and processing.

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, a synchrotron intended to collide opposing particle beams of either protons at an energy of 7 trillion electronvolts (1.12 microjoules) per particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV (92.0 µJ) per nucleus. The term hadron refers to particles composed of quarks. It is expected that it will address the most fundamental questions of physics, advancing our understanding of the deepest laws of nature. The LHC lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as much as 175 metres (574 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.

The Large Hadron Collider was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesized Higgs boson and of the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetry. It is funded by and built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
• http://lhc.web.cern.ch/
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[falconfira]

Now that we can do it, we're going to stop reporting it to you. wtf Tell us what you are learning, what those lines on the screen mean, explain explain explain. The youtube series for CERN is a real opportunity to explain high energy physics to us. I may not have a doctorate, but that doesn't mean I am not interested in high energy particle physics, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, general & special relativity, m-theory, string theory, etc.

[thesparitan]

@wesleyjames81 It has to do with prediction in the standard model. It corrects the math that has been around for years, unproven. Most of all its the higgs they are after. With the LHC they can look into the very beginning of the universe. As for technology, no one knows but there will be advancements from it, they might be even more dramatic then the industrial revolution. This is what being human is about.

[directorygod]

Good, I like this!! ^^__^^

[hamidali1979]

hahaha exactly ! thts wht i have been trying to find out for a while but still no resource hv yet to be revealed to me ! seems a little weired :/

[domdadon018]

@falconfira i tottaly agree, but i found a german vid form "welt der physik", there is explained wich first achievements lhc made until now... mayve there is an own lhc channel on youtube, but we dint find it yet?!

[SPACKlick]

1:25 to get to the point

[sdrawkcabgnipytmi]

@falconfira

The lines on the screen are almost certainly just information about the status of the machine, which probably wouldn't teach you all that much about particle physics.

But I do agree, they should try to teach us something about the science.

[gravitygun3]

Wow even if she's smart,she is really a geek.

Congratulations for all the hard work.Now there is even more hard work to put out from all that data :p

[drche420]

@pelucas716

I gotcha

[gaynorglowellxsingh]

Plasma is created in black holes as matter is accelerated to almost the speed of light as it falls into it. Is it possible that dark matter is the byproduct of the matter that falls into black holes, and the big bang released this dark matter back into our universe. The ultimate form of recycling. So matter has always been their its just changing from one form to another.

[pelucas716]

@drche420 hah ok, i see what you r sayin, i gues im guilty of doin that as well. what i was originally saying was that i would rather have them report on what is actually going on with the scienece, instead of filming the people looking at the screens and clapping, kno what im saying? yah fun sure, but i would like to see some science so i can learn and shiep, there is no real argument, other than ppl jumpin on me cuz of what i said and me gettin pissed. but w,e it aint even tht big of a deal,

[plda123]

@falconfira i totally agree with you !