ok first of all,
third CERN-Hadron Collider Physics Summer School, August 12-22, 2008
deadline for application submission has passed. We are no longer accepting applications.
Please note that smoking is not permitted inside any building at Fermilab.
anyway, beside that, who else is watching this project closely?
Info: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator located at CERN, near Geneva,
Switzerland ( i live on the german side very very close to CERN, just for your info
)
Scientists will use it to try to recreate the conditions that existed just a fraction of a second
after the Big Bang, the birth of the universe, by smashing pieces of atoms together at high speed.
Most experts believe the explosions created when the particles hit each other will reveal the basic building
blocks of everything around us. There are some, however, who fear it could destroy the planet.
A lawsuit filed last week by environmentalists in Hawaii is seeking a restraining order
preventing the European Nuclear Research Centre from switching it on for fear it could create
a black hole that will suck up all life on Earth.
On 5 April 2007, the sector 7-8 reached his temperature of -271 degrees Celsius (-455.8°F)
which is about one degree colder than the average temperature in space.
The three-kilometer-long section shrank during cooling by an astounding 10 meters!
The cooling of the complete accelerator is to be completed by mid-June 2008, shortly after the first
particle acceleration done.
When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation
of which could confirm the predictions and "missing links" in the Standard Model of physics and could
explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.
what an adeventure this year 2008 is !
