As impossible or unimaginable as it may sound, I was reading about this today.
The machine is called the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). Its a machine released in Geneva, a city of Switzerland. This machine has a 27km circumference, and its ~130 metres underground.
The purpose of this machine is as the name says it, to collide hadrons. But, what are Hadrons? Hadrons in a short term, are particles that are formed by a strong interaction of subparticles called, Mesons and Baryons.
The machine will work as follow:
1) They will pick up protons and put them in opposite directions in the magnetic core (27 kms of circumference) at almost the speed of light. Thats almost 50 thousand times around the ring, in a second.
2) After, they will line up the protons in order for them to collide.
3) The concentraded energy in result, will give a picture of the universe fractions of seconds after the Big Bang.
This could bring to the human eyes the never seen particle called "Higgs boson", the observation of what could confirm how elementary particles acquire properties such as mass. The Higgs boson would be a significant step in the Grand Unified Theory, that tries to unify three of the four fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force. The other fundamental force is gravity, which the Higgs boson could explain why its so weak compared to others.
Many scientifics have said that this project could lead to many catastrophes such as, a black hole that could eat up the whole earth, or universe as we know it. Yet, the other side of the scientifics that support the project, say that even if we get eaten by a blackhole, we won't feel a thing.
Others, say that it can create a big bang, but the LHC cannot generate the energies found in the Big Bang. All it can do, is recreate the conditions of how matters behave fractions of seconds after the big bang, and take a snapshot of it.
The source of this is: Wikipedia, and Youtube videos.
The machine is called the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). Its a machine released in Geneva, a city of Switzerland. This machine has a 27km circumference, and its ~130 metres underground.
The purpose of this machine is as the name says it, to collide hadrons. But, what are Hadrons? Hadrons in a short term, are particles that are formed by a strong interaction of subparticles called, Mesons and Baryons.
The machine will work as follow:
1) They will pick up protons and put them in opposite directions in the magnetic core (27 kms of circumference) at almost the speed of light. Thats almost 50 thousand times around the ring, in a second.
2) After, they will line up the protons in order for them to collide.
3) The concentraded energy in result, will give a picture of the universe fractions of seconds after the Big Bang.
This could bring to the human eyes the never seen particle called "Higgs boson", the observation of what could confirm how elementary particles acquire properties such as mass. The Higgs boson would be a significant step in the Grand Unified Theory, that tries to unify three of the four fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force. The other fundamental force is gravity, which the Higgs boson could explain why its so weak compared to others.
Many scientifics have said that this project could lead to many catastrophes such as, a black hole that could eat up the whole earth, or universe as we know it. Yet, the other side of the scientifics that support the project, say that even if we get eaten by a blackhole, we won't feel a thing.
Others, say that it can create a big bang, but the LHC cannot generate the energies found in the Big Bang. All it can do, is recreate the conditions of how matters behave fractions of seconds after the big bang, and take a snapshot of it.
The source of this is: Wikipedia, and Youtube videos.