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Particle Energy: CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Takes Front Seat
Posted by admin | Posted in Particle Energy | Posted on 09-12-2009
I wasn’t quite sold about particle energy after reading Dan Brown’s Angel’s & Demons cause at the time it seemed a little far-fetched, but after hearing all the latest buzz about it on TV, online, and in print, I must say it’s very fascinating. At the moment, physicist from around the globe are testing the large hadron collider to discover what forms after particles collide at insane speeds.
Particle Energy with CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Particles theory isn’t a new finding by any means, but physicists are getting closer and closer to answering physics’ most fundamental questions.
What is Particle Theory? (source:WikiAnswers)
1. Matter is made up of tiny particles (atoms and molecules).
2. These particles are constantly moving.
3. Particles of matter have big spaces between them. In solids, a smaller space, in liquids a relatively larger space and in gases, a huge space.
4. When heated, particles move faster and have more collisions, therefore taking up more space and making an object expand. When cooled, particles move more slowly having less collisions, therefore taking up less space.
5. Particles of matter are held together by strong attractive forces.
6. Each substance has unique particles that are different from the particles of other substances.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing particle beams of either protons at an energy of 7 TeV per particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV per nucleus. It is expected that it will address the most fundamental questions of physics, which seem to block further progress in understanding the deepest laws of nature. The LHC lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as much as 175 metres (570 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland…
CERN Breaks American Record for Most Particles Collided
Scientists said that the new Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile loop underneath the Swiss-French border, had accelerated protons to energies of 1.2 trillion electron volts apiece and then crashed them together, eclipsing a record for collisions held by an American machine, the Tevatron, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois…
