December 6, 2012 - Here at Categorists, we are very much concerned with that which the brighter minds of this world
do to occupy themselves. Each of us is majoring in, or have majored in
sciences in college (Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, and last but
not least, Political Science) and a project that I have personally kept
close watch over is CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
(LHC). This year, I have spent a great deal of time studying one of
the building blocks of the physical world, quantum mechanics, only to
find that there are numerous unexplained phenomenon. Apparently, a
number of these answers are in the LHC.
Here is a quick synopsis of what CERN is and what the LHC does. CERN stands for Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire, which translates to European Organization for Nuclear Research. It’s an international organization that leads the world in laboratory particle physics research. It is also the proud owner of the most badass particle accelerator to date: the Large Hadron Collider. It is 17 miles long and cost 7.5 billion Euros to construct. One of its main purposes is to discover the Higgs-Boson particle, which is pretty much the final missing link to the standard model of particle physics. Aside from that, it is theoretically capable of forming particles of infinite density and chain reaction properties (Strange Matter). To this day, the Higgs-Boson is still theoretical and the LHC has faced many experiments and complications since it’s induction in 2008. A large number of people believe that the experiments done at CERN could have catastrophic side effects, such as creating a black hole, here on Earth.
This year, CERN is beginning another set of experiments in hopes to getting that much closer to completing the Standard Model. Scientists at CERN have announced test dates for the rest of the year, as well as some curious dates can be found in the upcoming schedule. Starting Monday, December 17, 2012 and going through Friday, December 21, 2012, CERN will be launching and running a series of collisions, which are predicted to break records in high voltage collisions already set by the LHC. With these experiments, the scientists are hoping to create atomic reactions that would provide further information about anti-matter, and the big bang.
The test set for the week of December 17-21, 2012 is the final test before the LHC will shutdown operations for upgrades and will resume operation in 2014, assuming something doesn’t go wrong, in the minds of some of the scientists, terribly right, which causes the end of the world. I guess we will just have to see what happens. Let us know what you think, is CERN guilty of a self-fulfilling prophecy of destruction here?
Here is a quick synopsis of what CERN is and what the LHC does. CERN stands for Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire, which translates to European Organization for Nuclear Research. It’s an international organization that leads the world in laboratory particle physics research. It is also the proud owner of the most badass particle accelerator to date: the Large Hadron Collider. It is 17 miles long and cost 7.5 billion Euros to construct. One of its main purposes is to discover the Higgs-Boson particle, which is pretty much the final missing link to the standard model of particle physics. Aside from that, it is theoretically capable of forming particles of infinite density and chain reaction properties (Strange Matter). To this day, the Higgs-Boson is still theoretical and the LHC has faced many experiments and complications since it’s induction in 2008. A large number of people believe that the experiments done at CERN could have catastrophic side effects, such as creating a black hole, here on Earth.
This year, CERN is beginning another set of experiments in hopes to getting that much closer to completing the Standard Model. Scientists at CERN have announced test dates for the rest of the year, as well as some curious dates can be found in the upcoming schedule. Starting Monday, December 17, 2012 and going through Friday, December 21, 2012, CERN will be launching and running a series of collisions, which are predicted to break records in high voltage collisions already set by the LHC. With these experiments, the scientists are hoping to create atomic reactions that would provide further information about anti-matter, and the big bang.
The test set for the week of December 17-21, 2012 is the final test before the LHC will shutdown operations for upgrades and will resume operation in 2014, assuming something doesn’t go wrong, in the minds of some of the scientists, terribly right, which causes the end of the world. I guess we will just have to see what happens. Let us know what you think, is CERN guilty of a self-fulfilling prophecy of destruction here?
Sources and more information:
• Hunting for the Higgs Boson
Hunting
for the Higgs Boson
Swissnex and CERN scientist discuss the hunt and discovery of the Higgs
Boson particle. On July 4, 2012, physicists from two of the principal
experiments, ATLAS and CMS, at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the
European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced the first signs of
the elusive Higgs boson, capturing...
• Hello, Higgs Boson: LHC's New Particle Looks Like the Real Thing
How
'Higgsy' is this particle? More work needs to be done
By Rebecca Boyle Posted 07.04.2012 at 10:15 am 16 Comments
Proton-Proton Collision A simulation of the two-photon channel shows
what ATLAS sees when the decay of a Higgs boson results in the
production of two gamma rays. The blue beads indicate intermediate
massive particles, and the bright...
• CUNY Institute for Theoretical Sciences: The Higgs Boson• Higgs boson is too saintly and supersymmetry too shy
• CERN collider may have produced new type of matter
Read more: http://www.disclose.tv/news/CERNs_LHC_Largest_Ever_Experiment_coincides_with_Mayan_End_Date/87131#ixzz2ELzTZJGo
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