Largest particle collider conducts successful test
September 10, 2008 1:37 pm Citrus County Sound OFF, General Info, PolitcsI was watching the news yesterday and saw scientists were about to test the worlds largest particle collider today. They have done so now sending a proton around the tube buried in the earth in a clockwise direction. Next they plan to send one counterclockwise. These tests are leading up to an experiment set to find out what happened a second after “the big bang”.
If these tests are successful we will know more about the makeup of space and time, if something goes wrong with them we could all die.
The start of the collider — described as the biggest physics experiment in history — comes over the objections of some skeptics who fear the collision of protons could eventually imperil the earth.
The skeptics theorized that a byproduct of the collisions could be micro black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.
I don’t know about you, but this really scares me. Are we really supposed to know what “Mother Nature” really is made of? I learned as a child that we “can’t fool with Mother Nature”, and isn’t that what they are doing? I am not looking at this in a religious manner either, if I were, I feel that there would be a lot of other negative reasons to not do these experiments.
The collider is designed to push the proton beam close to the speed of light, whizzing 11,000 times a second around the tunnel.
The CERN experiments could reveal more about “dark matter,” antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. It could also find evidence of the hypothetical particle — the Higgs boson — believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.
I would like to start a discussion about this topic. What do you think about the possible dangers versus the knowledge science will gain. Is there a religious reason we shouldn’t do this? Post your comments to this blog entry, we would really like to here them.
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Date: September 21, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
They Had problems with it when the tried it out.
“It’s too early to say precisely what happened, but it seems to be a faulty electrical connection between two magnets that stopped superconducting, melted and led to a mechanical failure and let the helium out,” Gillies told The Associated Press.
Gillies said the sector that was damaged will have to be warmed up well above the absolute zero temperature used for operations so that repairs can be made – a time-consuming process.
“A number of magnets raised their temperature by around 100 degrees,” Gillies said. “We have now to warm up the whole sector in a controlled manner before we can actually go in and repair it.”
That happend just by spinning protons in one direction. What is going to happen when they make them collide?????