Large Hadron Collider.

[TroiK-]

LHCountdown.com

This may be old to some of you but its pretty new to me. Can anyone explain what will happen if lets say everything the do goes correctly?

 

[TrongaMonga]

Well, the first objective of LHC is to find Higgs boson. What's that, you ask? Well, it's pretty much the energy particle responsible for giving matter its mass. You know that Einstein formulae, E = mc^2, that shows that energy can turn into matter and vice-versa? They're gonna find out how exactly does it happen.

How? By colliding particles with such an brutal and gigantic speed (and speed equals energy) that they'll literally split up into smaller particles, which will then be detected with various scanners and trough their behavior in an electromagnetic field.

All very interesting, but quite nerdy.

 

[Uncle_Vanya]

How is this different from whats been done before? I mean hell even my Grandfather's seemingly modest lab has a particle collider, its not as big but its been splitting particles well enough for my Granddad to discover 3 brand spanking new radio isotopes. Bigger ring? More speed? Can split denser particles? Is this the point?

 

[TrongaMonga]

Simply put, the more energy the particles collide with, the smaller particles you obtain. And that is obtained with a bigger ring, and more speed (trough more developed electromagnetic fields which accelerate the particles more).

It also most likely has better detectors. I can't tell you for sure all the details, but fact is, it's much more sophisticated than the former Collider. Which will still be used, I believe.

 

[Dragnskull]

cant wait for a blackhole to suck this world up

 

[TrongaMonga]

Actually they did studies about that, there is indeed the possibility of creating mini-black holes, but they'd be so small and the chances of it to happen are so infinitesimal that it's almost 100% safe. It'd literally take billions of years of experiments for one to go bogus.

 

[Galatia]

It's more possible to be hit by an asteroid, than anihilated by the Black Hole. That's what they say.

 

[TroiK-]

Well, the first objective of LHC is to find Higgs boson. What's that, you ask? Well, it's pretty much the energy particle responsible for giving matter its mass. You know that Einstein formulae, E = mc^2, that shows that energy can turn into matter and vice-versa? They're gonna find out how exactly does it happen.

How? By colliding particles with such an brutal and gigantic speed (and speed equals energy) that they'll literally split up into smaller particles, which will then be detected with various scanners and trough their behavior in an electromagnetic field.

All very interesting, but quite nerdy.

so if they do end up figuring out exactly how energy particles give matter its mass is it going to benefit anything. i mean are we going to have a bunch of scientific breakthroughs or somethings?

 

[TrongaMonga]

If we understand how is it that matter turns into energy, the energy production gets much, much easier. Meaning, we'll be able to get far cheaper, less polluted and much more economic ways of producing electricity.

It's more possible to be hit by an asteroid, than anihilated by the Black Hole. That's what they say.

By a gigantic margin

 

[Dragnskull]

Actually they did studies about that, there is indeed the possibility of creating mini-black holes, but they'd be so small and the chances of it to happen are so infinitesimal that it's almost 100% safe. It'd literally take billions of years of experiments for one to go bogus.

i know, i read pretty deep on it a few months ago. theres supposidly nearly 100% chance that each time they use this machine, it -will- create blackholes, the thing is, they will be the fraction the size of an electron, and in order for a blackhole to survive, it has to eat its own bodyweight every X amount of time, byt he time it was even able to absorb a single electron it will have burned out*

*So the theory says.

 

[Renzokuken]

Why is everyone saying the black hole. It's not like only one exists.

 

[TrongaMonga]

So, Ranzogaga, Galatia is everyone to you, you gallant aussie you!

And, 100% chance to create a black hole? That doesn't sound right. Nevertheless, the odds of it destroying the world are pretty much zero