Posted on 03/04/2007 8:27:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Engineers at the CERN lab in Geneva spent nearly 10 hours lowing a 1,920 metric ton magnet over 320 feet into the ground on Wednesday... This giant magnet is an essential component for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled to be active in November, and be 100% functional by 2008. Similar to the well known, Illinois based, U.S. particle collider at Fermi Lab, the Large Hadron Collider is expected to be the largest and highest energy particle accelerator in existence. The LHC will use liquid helium cooled superconducting magnets to produce electric fields that will propel particles to near light speeds in a 16.7 mile, 10 foot diameter tunnel that crosses the border between Switzerland and France at four points... The researchers claim the LHC will be the only particle accelerator powerful enough to observe the scattering of W bosons, an elementary particle that is one of the four fundamental interactions of nature, which is required in their proposed testing.
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Sorry, couldn't resist.
Must have been the magnetic nature of the topic.
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