World's most powerful atom smasher restarts: CERN
February 28, 2010
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.
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.
The LHC, a global effort, aims to resolve physics problems including "dark matter" and "dark energy", thought to account for 96 percent of the cosmos.
The scientists' Holy Grail is to find a theorised component called the Higgs Boson, commonly called the "God Particle", which would explain how particles acquire mass.
The experiment, the fruit of decades of experiments and research by physicists from around the world, has even attracted Hollywood in recent years with the fictional blockbuster "Angels and Demons".
(c) 2010 AFP
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From Wikipedia: Mad Scientist:
...Mad scientists also, whilst definitely being intelligent, if not necessarily brilliant, usually fail to think things through to their conclusion...
Some excerpts from the LSAG summary report:
"Collisions at the LHC differ from cosmic-ray collisions with astronomical bodies like the Earth in that new particles produced in LHC collisions tend to move more slowly than those produced by cosmic rays. Stable black holes could be either electrically charged or neutral.
If stable microscopic black holes had no electric charge, their interactions with the Earth would be very weak. Those produced by cosmic rays would pass harmlessly through the Earth into space, whereas those produced by the LHC could remain on Earth."
... So just what do they think stable, neutral black holes, which remain on Earth, might do next?
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It's not so "theoretical" as you sugggest. Cosmic black holes are not themselves charged (or expected to be charged).
Blazar magnetic fields are generated by infalling mass. Our galactic black hole, for instance, is not a blazar as it's in a quiet period (no detecable infalling mass).
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WHAT they found out about Black Holes ...
A) they would be microscopic
B) If .. IF they lasted more that a sec and were stable -- they would accelerate through the earth and out the other side... At most they might grab one -- thats right ONE atom of iron in the core as they travel through the densest part of the planet, other than the extremist's head --
C) they have a chance of interacting with matter along the lines of a nuetrino -- which last I heard after ten years of trying to set up perfect conditions to find a nuetrino we still can't say for sure that we have seen one.
GW - yeah its probably happening
Black holes - yeah, but its easier to get struck by lightning
Aliens - thousands of people have seen these, there are millions of pages of documented reports
Mar 01, 2010
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The way politics are going in the world I think it is fair to say we stand a better chance of dieing in a Nuclear Holocaust.
I don't know about you but I would like to know how the Universe began. I also would rather Die being speggitified and sucked into a black hole, then incinerated in a nuke or being one of the sorry bastards left to die of radiation.
Chances are better that absolutely nothing happens then a black hole.
I did get a chuckle out of "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."
Something counter intuitive about the energy of 7-14 flying mosquito's ending the world.
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Suggestion: Perhaps you should read more about physics before commenting.
Ah, all is clear to me now.
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LOL, I about fell out of my chair!
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It's the way progress is made. Not new, and not going to be the last time. Some risks have to be undertaken. If we were to play 100% safety, we would still be in caves right now.
On the bright side, at least dying "by black hole" would be a quick painless way to go. As addidis also said there ARE worse alternatives.
Mar 01, 2010
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If we were to play 0% safety, everyone has nuclear reactor from graphite bricks built in his garage already, as E. Fermi has proved already in 1941, this arrangement works and it doesn't explode...
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talk, talk, talk. It's a waste of 'time' - our most valuable commodity and with variable 'comments', our most wasted byproduct
Mar 01, 2010
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My problem simply is, these scientists are openly trying to prove theories, which are predicting stable black holes and strangelets just by attempting to create stable black holes and strangelets at LHC. If they wouldn't succeede with this at LHC, they would ask for money for better accelerator, until they create some. This community simply has no risk limit built in.
Am I the only person, who is concerned with such approach?
Mar 01, 2010
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Yes, you are.
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It took almost 125 years from the documentation of electricity to its wide spread use from a utility company.
It took 150 years from the discovery of radioactive decay to the Atomic bomb, and nuclear reactor
The steam engine was experimented on in 1 AD -- redesigned in 1600's and the started the industrial revolution in 1700's.
It takes time to adapt pure science real world problems. We will not know what the knowledge is useful for, for probably another 50 years.
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It's a simple decision strategy known from Civilization game: you can invest into expensive research of various tools while your culture is still in stone-axe age - but such research would be just a useless waste or your resources, after then.
The problem of relative advantage in collider research is, it's a product of arm race from the last century, being separated from actual needs of civilization in the same way, like managed flights to Moon, for example.
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The most pressing problem our societies face are resources and living space. If we do not have a steady, stable supply of resources, wars and atrocities will result as the rich nations demand the bounties to which they are accustomed. This has been the unaltered rule of civilization from the beginning.
Not only is space technology vital for the future of mankind, it is important for the near term stability of human civilization as our global commodity system reaches its maxima and can no longer support growing GDPs.
Mars, Mercury, and the asteroids probably contain more precious raw materials than have ever been mined on the Earth. Not only are there no environmental considerations to worry about, but they are virgin deposits completely untouched by anyone.
Only by reaching those untapped resources will we avoid a global resource war in the mid 21st century.
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The effects of this particular mechanism can be observed at all times in the history of mankind.
For example: In ancient times, you would get stoned to death just for saying that the Earth is not flat.
In medieval times, you would be burned just for mentioning that Earth could be older than ~1500 years.
Nowadays, you get spit on and no one takes you serriously when not going with "the stream". Or you meet with alot of "resistance", when trying to do something revolutionary.
The doomsayers are part of it too.
Mar 01, 2010
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On the contrary, it's just the mainstream scientists, who are trying to ignore their own publications. This leads to quite crazy situations, like the above mentioned with Lisa Randall, who believes to prove existence of stable micro-black holes at LHC, although she says in the same sentence, she doesn't believe, LHC will produce them.
Has someone explanation for such stance, other then quite pathological desire for success?
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The nature of intelligence isn't as well understood as you so enthusiastically purport. We aren't even in the decade that will see a comprehensive model of the human brain, let alone understanding the phenomenon of intelligence as it arises in the universe.
Intelligence is a product of an evolutionary process which builds upon itself and accelerates. To imply that we have any sort of grasp on that process is quite naive, especially while upon the precipice of the dawn of artificial intelligence and the reverse engineering of the human brain. When computers are several orders of magnitude smarter (smarter being a word compressed from many words that describe malleable intelligence), we'll encounter the same obstacles we do now; except the voices of the emotionally charged and fearful, I think, will be more readily ignored.
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You can "tweak" the equation to get a specific result, and then check with reality wether you were right or wrong.
That is basicaly what's happening in the case of various string theorists. They each have their own "tweakings" and all they are looking for is to compare their calculations with reality (experiment/LHC), which could tell them wether they are right or wrong.
The point here being, that there is ALOT of room for speculation on the ST playground, but only 1 real solution - if any at all.
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Such computers would stop LHC experiments already, despite the various emotionally charged fearful calls referencing to "natural" human inquisitiveness, which are affraiding of "lost of progress" in science.
http://news.scien...-01.html
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Do you know, which one is it?
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Yoda: "Size matters not."
It's all about the energy density within the earth, driving the black hole's growth rate. "Exponential" ...comes to mind.
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It seems you think all LHC opponents are "emotionally charged and fearful," whereas LHC proponents are reasoned and courageous. Perhaps there's plenty to go around from both camps?
Do you have any idea how hard it was to convince the LSAG committee that cosmic ray collisions and LHC collisions are not the same relative to the earth? It took years!
LHC proponents still regularly use the, "Cosmic rays happen all the time so it's safe." argument, even though it's been thrown into serious doubt by the LSAG committee themselves (I'd say, it's falsified).
To use an invalid hypothesis to support a personal belief is the epitome of dogma.
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In 1999, physicists said no particle accelerator for the foreseeable future would have the power to create a black hole. But theoretical work published in 2001 showed that if hidden extra dimensions in space-time did exist, the LHC might create black holes after all. Thereafter, the argument for safety was changed. In 2003, it said that any black holes created would instantly evaporate. But when subsequent theoretical work suggested otherwise, the argument changed again. In 2008, CERN issued a report arguing a safety case based, ultimately, on astrophysical arguments and observations of eight white dwarf stars. These flip-flops on safety might cause to find current assurances less persuasive.
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If two or more theories are supporting the same hypothesis, should it be considered as a confirmation of such hypothesis?
Or the fact, we are using a different theories during such reasoning should decrease a trustfullness of such hypothesis?
We are apparently dealing with duality of insintric and exsintric perspectives, which are predicting exactly the opposite results.
Now you can decide freely, which logic is correct by your opinion...
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In addition, I'm demonstrating, as the understanding of physics deepens, the risk of black hole formation becomes more and more pronounced. There is apparent trend in development of physical models. Now we have explicit computer simulation of stable black hole formation during LHC collisions.
In addition, I'm demonstrating, most of phenomena, which CERN physicists are trying to demonstrate by LHC collisions are connected with formation of dense stable particle clusters (despite physicists are calling them tetraquark, quark-gluon condensate, WIMPs or micro-black holes).
Such arguments have no anti-symmetrical analogy in reasoning of CERN proponents.
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You are welcome to pull your own conclusions out of it.. :)
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For example, relativity is incompatible with quantum mechanics regarding cosmological constant or vacuum (energy) density in many orders of magnitude. Are you implying, if relativity is correct, then the quantum mechanics is probably not, at least in most cases...?
When logic is correct, but the assumptions not, then the result still may not remain correct at all...
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For example, if one of observers observes the some house from inside, whereas the other one just from outside, then the predictions of both observers could differ, although both predictions will be correct in context of their individual theories. Occasionally both observers could predict the same result, when they're describing a window, for example.
Therefore the correct condition should be:
"if ONE of theories is correct and observation perspective of it will be equivalent to the perspective of other theories, then the others theories definitelly ARE NOT correct".
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Pluto is not a planet, it is a giant ball of ice.
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How would a black hole resulting from the collision of two protons act differently than a single particle with the charge of two protons and the mass of less than 15000 of them? (the event horizon would be about the same size as the radius of a proton, I think)
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The wavelength of a particle is inversely proportional to its momentum. Since to about 0.1% the beam energies, and thus the momentum of each proton, are equal, the momentum of a black hole of the type given above would be relatively low, of order a few hundred MeV. So, while the wavelength associated with the black hole would be at least 1/15000th that of a proton moving at the same velocity, it would be about the same or larger than that of (either of) the incoming protons.
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Earthquake shakes eastern Turkey; 17 dead - Sunday, March 7, 2010 . physicists will have to revise their theories , it is obvious that the local magnetic field that produces LHC collisIons REBOUNDS IN THE WHOLE earth magnetic field generating expansion contraction strong forces , please its elementary physics, HAITI , CHILE , TAIWAN, ECUADOR ARGENTINA TODAY TURQUEY . tomorrow MR lomed Be probably the geographic area where you live, but dont worried , be happy.
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