Galileo built telescope in the late 1500s he saw Jupiter had 4 moons and the sun had spots which made him conclude that the sun was rotating. As people built better telescopes, knowledge of this complex, beautiful new world of the cosmos evolved. We became aware of a vast universe filled with bizarre objects—pulsars, quasars, black holes—and that we were inhabitants of an insignificant dot, part of a galaxy of billions of stars carrying their own solar systems.
Today, the scientific world is witnessing the completion of a new tool, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This is no pair of cheap binoculars. It is expected to advance the magnification of the properties of objects by the largest factor in the history of particle physics—by some reckoning, 500-fold beyond what can be achieved today. The LHC is a particle accelerator—a monster-size circular underground tunnel, 4.3 kilometers in radius, located at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, on the Swiss-French border near Geneva.
Although the LHC isn't the first collider ever to be built, it attains the highest energy. What this means is that the collisions that take place inside it will be more violent, and that it has the ability to produce 100 times the number of collisions per second of any other collider.
The machine's reach and sensitivity may well reveal a new world, a gift to the 21st century.
Nobody believes that the LHC will magically provide one, but we are hoping that it will at least help us tidy things up a bit.
The LHC will bring us simplicity by taking us back to the beginning. It will give us a glimpse of the universe as it was at the moment of its birth.
LHC. It will enable us to replicate some of the conditions of the first few instants of the universe. Not all the conditions at once, of course, but enough to enable us to begin to understand the processes by which the primordial first particles collided and coalesced to form the nuclei and atoms that compose our sun and its planets.
The LHC, physicists hope, will help them see the simple pattern emerging from the confusion of mirrors.
The LHC is built to cause collisions between particles, and then give physicists a view of the resulting debris
Because the LHC is designed to look for particles, it could conceivably find a dark energy particle (if it exists).
One of the more exciting prospects of the use of the LHC is in finding what are called extra spatial dimensions beyond the familiar breadth, depth and height
Using the LHC, we might discover such hidden extra dimensions by studying reactions where energy seems to disappear (the energy moves along dimensions we can't see).
Although the machine is now just starting to do its work, the true sharpness of the LHC "telescope" won't become apparent for the next several years, and its magic will truly unfold through 2020
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See LHCFacts.org or LHCDefense.org for minority opinions from PHD level theoretical scientists).
