Welcome! A look at the LHC
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Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
April 2009Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
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As I mentioned there is an interest in following developments in (among all science developments) cosmology. Last year saw the inauguration of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Europe, and the whole science community followed developments closely. That was until the LHC was shut down due to a malfunction.
One of the main objectives of the LHC is to detect the so-called Higgs boson. Other work includes verifying (or falsifying) certain yet untested parts of the Standard Model. The Standard Model predicts the existence of the Higgs boson. The significance of this discovery has to do with explaining how particles actually obtain their mass. They also hope to find in this effort why gravity is so much weaker than the other three fundamental forces (electromagnetic, the weak and the strong nuclear forces). There also has been the dream to find a Grand Unification Theory that would combine these four fundamental forces into a single theory explaining the full interaction of forces, not only at the micro scale, but also at the macro scale. Gravity is the only force that seems to have interaction at large distances.
It is also hoped that the LHC would shed some light on the existence of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, the yet undiscovered phenomena that is needed for the current theories to explain the cosmological obervations. The LHC might also shed light on super symmetry and extra dimensions as predicted by string theory. These concepts are difficult to grasp if you are not a physicist, but nevertheless we are waiting in anticipation to news coming from the LHC.
Read more at the LHC website and at Wikepedia.
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