Gallery: LHC's biggest collision yet
by Andy Smith | March 30, 2010 9:14am PDT | Image 1 of 19
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Scientists celebrate after successfully smashing protons operating at 3.5 trillion electron volts (TeV) into each other creating an energy level of 7 TeVs in the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. It was the highest energy level reached yet reached by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. For more, read Larry Dignan's Smartplanet blog.
The purpose of the project is to to probe the nature of dark matter, antimatter, an elusive particle called the Higgs boson, and how they fit into the history of the universe.
The ultimate goal of the experiment is to crash protons with an energy level of 7 TeV each creating an energy level of 14 TeV.
Credit: Heinz Pernegger; Doris Burckhart
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As this miraculous microscope/time machine approaches the limits of its capabilities it expands the limits of our knowledge. Let us hope that so noble a cause continues to be funded in these times of restraint.
since they quelled the speculation of bigbangogenesis
(somewhat undesirable, no?) it has come to note that they
will be colliding heavy elements such as lead. Which were
certainly not present at the time of our greatest grannie
- the big bang. So the arguments based on "well it hasn't
happened yet (catalysis of another big bang)" don't seem
to hold water, do they?
(somewhat undesirable, no?) it has come to note that they
will be colliding heavy elements such as lead. Which were
certainly not present at the time of our greatest grannie
- the big bang. So the arguments based on "well it hasn't
happened yet (catalysis of another big bang)" don't seem
to hold water, do they?
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