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Showing posts with label Particle Collider Tests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Particle Collider Tests. Show all posts

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 !