Now, where in the heck am I going to go to get a good milkshake?
Cleaning out the carbon build up ?
Looks like a waste of money to me.
How many windmills are they using to run that?
That’s going to set Dr. Sheldon Cooper’s research back...for a decade! ;)
How many large Hadrons did they finally collide?................
Science is so much fun. And so useful. How void the earth would be if we didn’t know about Higgs? Would we have gone to the Moon without knowing? Oh, we did. Well, could we have the ISS? Oh, we did. Well, anyway, I’m sure it is of great use to, dare I say it ... Mankind? No, I dare not because that wouldn’t be right, would it? And the LHC proves it. Wink Wink!
*ping*
Were they operating during the Alaska earthquake or the magma wave?
Were they operating during the Alaska earthquake or the magma wave?
The Large Hadron Collider is shutting down for 2 years.
Sure going to be missed by a lot of folks. /S
...more power...
What could possibly go wrong?
Has Michael Bay optioned the screenplay yet?
KYPD
I wonder if when they get up to the original specs of 14 trillion electron volts whether they’ll create a black hole to swallow the erf as was postulated by some before its first run? Hope not. ;-)
The term hadron refers to composite particles composed of quarks held together by the strong force (as atoms and molecules are held together by the electromagnetic force).[17] The best-known hadrons are the baryons such as protons and neutrons; hadrons also include mesons such as the pion and kaon, which were discovered during cosmic ray experiments in the late 1940s and early 1950s.[18]
A collider is a type of a particle accelerator with two directed beams of particles. In particle physics, colliders are used as a research tool: they accelerate particles to relatively high kinetic energies and let them impact other particles.[1] Analysis of the byproducts of these collisions gives scientists good evidence of the structure of the subatomic world and the laws of nature governing it. Many of these byproducts are produced only by high-energy collisions, and they decay after very short periods of time. Thus many of them are hard or nearly impossible to study in other ways.[19]
Purpose:
Physicists hope that the Large Hadron Collider will help answer some of the fundamental open questions in physics, concerning the basic laws governing the interactions and forces among the elementary objects, the deep structure of space and time, and in particular the interrelation between quantum mechanics and general relativity.
Data are also needed from high-energy particle experiments to suggest which versions of current scientific models are more likely to be correct – in particular to choose between the Standard Model and Higgsless model and to validate their predictions and allow further theoretical development.
Many theorists expect new physics beyond the Standard Model to emerge at the TeV energy level, as the Standard Model appears to be unsatisfactory. Issues explored by LHC collisions include:[20][21]
Is the mass of elementary particles being generated by the Higgs mechanism via electroweak symmetry breaking?[22] It was expected that the collider experiments will either demonstrate or rule out the existence of the elusive Higgs boson, thereby allowing physicists to consider whether the Standard Model or its Higgsless alternatives are more likely to be correct.[23][24]
Is supersymmetry, an extension of the Standard Model and Poincaré symmetry, realized in nature, implying that all known particles have supersymmetric partners?[25][26][27]
Are there extra dimensions,[28] as predicted by various models based on string theory, and can we detect them?[29]
What is the nature of the dark matter that appears to account for 27% of the mass-energy of the universe?
Other open questions that may be explored using high-energy particle collisions:
It is already known that electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are different manifestations of a single force called the electroweak force. The LHC may clarify whether the electroweak force and the strong nuclear force are similarly just different manifestations of one universal unified force, as predicted by various Grand Unification Theories.
Why is the fourth fundamental force (gravity) so many orders of magnitude weaker than the other three fundamental forces? See also Hierarchy problem.
Are there additional sources of quark flavour mixing, beyond those already present within the Standard Model?
Why are there apparent violations of the symmetry between matter and antimatter? See also CP violation.
What are the nature and properties of quark–gluon plasma, thought to have existed in the early universe and in certain compact and strange astronomical objects today?
This will be investigated by heavy ion collisions, mainly in ALICE, but also in CMS, ATLAS and LHCb. First observed in 2010, findings published in 2012 confirmed the phenomenon of jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions.[30][31][32]
Large Hadron Collider
Findings and discoveries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#Findings_and_discoveries
Who drew up the plans?
Kind of like this monster of an earth mover......
From their website...
The Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way.
https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider
Will they need particle janitors to scrape particle particles off the particle accelerator walls? Will they be particular in the selection process?