Sep 05, 2008 12:37 PM GMT
I am not sure if any of you heard about this, but according to Reuters, CERN( European Organisation for Nuclear Research) is about to conduct an experiment that would recreate the 'Big Bang' that created universe 15 billion years ago.
Here's an extract from Reuters article:
...Lyn Evans of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said weekend trials in the vast underground LHC machine in which the particle-smashing experiment will take place over the coming months and years "went without a hitch".
"We look forward to a resounding success when we make our first attempt to send a beam all the way round the LHC," said Evans, who heads the multinational team of scientists that shaped the project and the machine, the Large Hadron Collider.
The final tests involved pumping a single bunch of energy particles from the project's accelerator into the 27-km (17-mile) beam pipe of the collider and steering them counter- clockwise around it for about 3 kms (2 miles).
Earlier in the month a clockwise trial in the LHC -- which runs deep under French and Swiss territory between the Jura mountains and Lake Geneva -- had been equally successful, CERN said.
More on:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSLP70881820080825?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=10003
However, scientists in Austria, Germany and Switzerland say that this experiment will create a huge amount of energy that would create a black hole and suck in the whole planet within the next 4 years.
What do you think about it? Is this experiment really worth it?
Here's an extract from Reuters article:
...Lyn Evans of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said weekend trials in the vast underground LHC machine in which the particle-smashing experiment will take place over the coming months and years "went without a hitch".
"We look forward to a resounding success when we make our first attempt to send a beam all the way round the LHC," said Evans, who heads the multinational team of scientists that shaped the project and the machine, the Large Hadron Collider.
The final tests involved pumping a single bunch of energy particles from the project's accelerator into the 27-km (17-mile) beam pipe of the collider and steering them counter- clockwise around it for about 3 kms (2 miles).
Earlier in the month a clockwise trial in the LHC -- which runs deep under French and Swiss territory between the Jura mountains and Lake Geneva -- had been equally successful, CERN said.
More on:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSLP70881820080825?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=10003
However, scientists in Austria, Germany and Switzerland say that this experiment will create a huge amount of energy that would create a black hole and suck in the whole planet within the next 4 years.
What do you think about it? Is this experiment really worth it?
