Some scientists fear that, as of Wednesday, the world as we know it may be doomed due to the experiments of one man. From The Daily Mail-
Dr Lyn Evans, who has been dubbed Evans the Atom, will this week switch on a giant particle accelerator designed to unlock the secrets of the Big Bang.
On Wednesday, Dr Evans will fire up the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile-long doughnut-shaped tunnel that will smash sub-atomic particles together at nearly the speed of light.
Built by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), the collider lies beneath the French-Swiss border, near the institution’s headquarters in Geneva, at depths ranging from 170ft to 600ft.
The aim of the £4.4billion experiment is to recreate the conditions that existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang – the birth of the universe – and provide vital clues to the building blocks of life.
It will track the spray of particles thrown out by collisions in a search for the elusive Higgs Boson, a theoretical entity that supposedly lends weight, or mass, to the elementary particles. So important is this mysterious substance that it has been called the ‘God Particle’.
Scientists also hope to shed some light on the invisible material that exists between particles – dubbed ‘dark matter’ as no one knows what it really is – which makes up most of the universe.
If all that is over your head, however, do not despair. This rap song-
Written and performed by 23-year-old Kate McAlpine, who works in the Press office at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland, the video features Kate and two background dancers bopping about in lab coats
Will explain it in layman's language.
6 comments:
I hope they remember what they did wrong this time. Being stuck in a 13 billion year long time loop like some cracked out Star Trek episode is getiing old.
They're afraid they might create mini-black holes in the earth that could eventually cause the earth to implode and then explode into a mini super-nova. It wouldn't happen right away. The first signs would come in about four years, and it would gradually get worse from there until it finally happens, all fairly quickly.
They've even gone to court to try to prevent the experiment.
"The God Particle" This is something we should never try to find as it's not meant for us to do so. In my opinion the secrets of the Universe are in fact suppose to be that, a secret. We can only hope that nothing negative will come about from this project. Then again if something bad does happen most would not have knowledge of such information until it was much later on down the line.
Anonymous-
I think you might be reading too much into the term "God particle". All it is, if it even exists at all, is something that theoretically determines weight of masses and objects relative to their composition. It's entirely theoretical.
The Devil Particle is worse.
Beamish-
Did you listen to the video? It's actually pretty cool. Of course I guess you have to like rap, otherwise it might be pretty irritating.
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