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Monday, September 15, 2008

In search of GOD

In search of God

I have here, excerpts of the highlights of a Press Report on CERN’s Particle Collider Tests.

The biggest Physics experiment in the history.

World’s largest particle collider (Large Haldron Collider) ; Tests with two beams of Proton fired in opposite directions at close to the speed of light.

Proton beams fired through a 27 Km long underground ring.

Aims to recreate conditions a split second after the Big bang ( the massive explosion that created the universe).

The purpose of all these tests is to understand the makeup of the Universe.

Could reveal more about “dark matter”, anti-matter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time.

Could find evidence of the hypothetical particle – the Higgs boson – called “God particle”.

The God particle gives mass to all other particles , and thus to matter that makes up the universe.

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It is feared that the collision of protons could eventually imperil the earth by creating micro-black holes, sub atomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.

Feels 'dark' about the whole thing ? Yes, it might, if you are not a physicist !


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