Posted on 02/28/2010 2:09:19 PM PST by NormsRevenge
GENEVA (AFP) – Scientists have restarted the world's most powerful atom-smasher overnight, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Sunday, as they launch a new bid to uncover the secrets of the universe.
"The LHC is on its way again. First beam of 2010 circulated in each direction by 04.10 CET (0310 GMT)," said CERN in a tweet on its website on Sunday.
The 3.9 billion euro (5.6 billion dollars) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was shut down in December to ready it for collisions at unfathomed energy levels. It was run for a few weeks after being successfully revived from a 14 month breakdown.
The particle collider -- inside a 27-kilometre (16.8-mile) tunnel straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva -- is aimed at understanding the origins of the universe by recreating the conditions that followed the Big Bang.
In the weeks before the technical shutdown in December, the collider achieved over a million particle collisions and accelerated proton beams to energy levels never reached before, according to CERN.
Collisions reached a world record energy level of 2.36 teraelectronvolts (TeV), already allowing scientists to gather data.
But CERN now wants to reach 7.0 TeV to try to recreate conditions close to the Big Bang, and run it at those levels for 18 to 24 months.
Subsequently the scientists aim to reach the LHC's design energy of 14 TeV, but only following another long technical shutdown in the second half of 2011.
Before the LHC experiment, no particle accelerator had exceeded 0.98 TeV. One TeV is the equivalent to the energy of motion achieved by a flying mosquito.
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A view of a superconducting solenoid magnet at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva. Scientists have restarted the world's most powerful atom-smasher overnight, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Sunday, as they launch a new bid to uncover the secrets of the universe. (AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)
Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research watch the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in November 2009 near Geneva. US physicists have created matter at around four trillion degrees Celsius, the hottest temperature ever reached in a laboratory. The US research program is complemented by studies soon to get underway at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland (AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)
Goody! Soon every household will have their own personal Black Hole for trash compaction.
Huh!?
If that was gasoline, it wouldn't be enough to run a pissant's motorcycle.
I have been feeling kind of twisted.
Scientists start atom zapper with power of
14 mosquitos.
14 mosquitos of kenetic energy at at sub-atomic particle size is god like force.
True enough.
What do those Swiss have against atoms, anyway?
It’s an incredible amount of electron energy.
As long as they recycle it thats ok.
If we hadn’t had a bunch of Democrat weasels controlling Congress in1993 the US would have a superconducting supercollider that puts CERN’s to shame. The Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory was a DOE supported facility.
The U.S. House of Representatives decided in 1993 to halt the project—largely because it was begun on Ronald Reagan’s watch—after 14 miles of tunneling had been completed and two billion dollars spent. At the time Slick Willie wanted to blow $18 billion on a “stimulus” bill that would have accomplished nothing just like Zerobama’s $850 billion “stimulus boondoggle.
Per single electric charge, I think they mean. Each individual electron or proton sent flying has the kinetic energy oomph of the average flying mosquito. On an atomic scale that’s an awful lot.
lol
when was the earthquake in chili again? if the particles are moving faster than light, could they cause an event PRIOR to starting the collider?
:)
Mosquito power? How does that compare to horse power?
It’s the newest and trendiest way to be a yob.
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