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Astronomy Picture of the Day
NASA ^ | 2/25/08 | Maximilien Brice, CERN

Posted on 02/25/2008 1:46:03 PM PST by sig226


Dawn of the Large Hadron Collider
Credit & Copyright:
Maximilien Brice, CERN

Explanation: Why do objects have mass? To help find out, Europe's CERN has built the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator yet created by humans. This May, the LHC is scheduled to start smashing protons into each other with unprecedented impact speeds. The LHC will explore the leading explanation that mass arises from ordinary particles slogging through an otherwise invisible but pervasive field of virtual Higgs particles. Were high energy colliding particles to create real Higgs bosons, the Higgs mechanism for mass creation may be bolstered. LHC will also look for micro black holes, magnetic monopoles, and explore the possibility that every type of fundamental particle we know about has a nearly invisible supersymmetric counterpart. The LHC@Home project will allow anyone with a home computer to help LHC scientists search archived LHC data for these strange beasts. Pictured above, a person stands in front of the huge ATLAS detector, one of six detectors being attached to the LHC.


TOPICS: Astronomy Picture of the Day
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1 posted on 02/25/2008 1:46:04 PM PST by sig226
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To: fnord; Number57; KevinDavis; rdb3; MNJohnnie; thoughtomator; RightWhale; proudofthesouth; ...

2 posted on 02/25/2008 1:46:42 PM PST by sig226 (If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy.)
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To: newgeezer

Waste of money alert!


3 posted on 02/25/2008 1:48:08 PM PST by DungeonMaster (WELL I SPEAK LOUD, AND I CARRY A BIGGER STICK, AND I USE IT TOO!)
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To: sig226

Why is it whenever I see the name of that facility my mind transposes that d and r.


4 posted on 02/25/2008 1:48:28 PM PST by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: sig226

That is only a detector. The Superconducting Supercollider, canceled, was the last USA attempt at such an accelerator. The Apollo moon program was also cancelled about the same time. Scientists are going to Europe rather than Texas.


5 posted on 02/25/2008 2:25:02 PM PST by RightWhale (Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
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To: sig226

Ah, so THAT’s what a flux capacitor really looks like.


6 posted on 02/25/2008 3:57:10 PM PST by Enterprise ((Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!))
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To: RightWhale
The Apollo program was canceled in the early-mid 1970s. The SSC was canceled in favor of the ISS.
7 posted on 02/25/2008 10:35:52 PM PST by ItsForTheChildren
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To: ItsForTheChildren

The ISS has been effectively cancelled. It only looks like a viable program.


8 posted on 02/26/2008 8:48:56 AM PST by RightWhale (Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
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To: RightWhale

I won’t disagree with that.


9 posted on 02/26/2008 3:52:19 PM PST by ItsForTheChildren
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