World's largest particle collider busts record

May 21, 2015

A scientist looks at a section of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), during maintenance works in 2013 in Meyrin, near Geneva

The world's largest particle smasher broke the record for energy levels late Wednesday in a test run after a two-year upgrade, CERN announced Thursday.
"Last night, protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the record-breaking energy of 13 TeV (teraelectronvolts) for the first time," the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said in a statement.

The LHC's previous highest energy for collisions was eight TeV, reached in 2012.

In April, it started up again after a two-year overhaul designed to pave the way to experiments at 13 TeV. It has the potential to be cranked up to 14 TeV.

Experiments at the collider are aimed at unlocking clues as to how the universe came into existence by studying fundamental particles, the building blocks of all matter, and the forces that control them.

Before the upgrade, the LHC was used to prove the existence of the Higgs Boson, also known as the God particle, which confers mass.

That discovery earned the 2013 Nobel physics prize for two of the scientists who had theorised the existence of the Higgs back in 1964.

Wednesday's collisions at the giant lab, housed in a 27-kilometre (17-mile) tunnel straddling the French-Swiss border, are part of a recommissioning programme ahead of an even more ambitious roster of experiments, due to start next month.

Presentation of the Large Hadron Collider

"These test collisions were to set up systems that protect the machine and detectors from particles that stray from the edges of the beam," CERN said.

The LHC allows beams containing billions of protons travelling at 99.9 percent the speed of light to shoot through the massive collider in opposite directions.

Powerful magnets bend the beams so that they collide at points around the track where four laboratories have batteries of sensors to monitor the smashups.

Workers check equipment at CERN in February, 2015

The sub-atomic rubble is then scrutinised for novel particles and the forces that hold them together.

One teraelectronvolt is roughly equivalent to the energy of motion of a flying mosquito, CERN says on its website.

But within the LHC, the energy is squeezed into an extremely small space—about a million, million times smaller than a mosquito. It is this intensity which causes the particles to be smashed apart.

http://m.phys.org/news/2015-05-world-largest-particle-collider.html

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Roaring Lovely May 26, 2015 at 6:42am

Putting aside logical and philosophical difficulties, lets consider the phyc. The idea of CERN recreating the condition of big bang to study the origin of the universe is problematic because if it was a singularity, it is impossible to study singularity. In phyc, when we encounter a singularity, we stop there! If it was not a singularity, then it was not a genuine beginning of the universe!!
Roaring Lovely May 26, 2015 at 6:23am

So to study the universe and its origin, we must absolutely transcend the universe!!
Roaring Lovely May 26, 2015 at 6:19am

'It's impossible to determine that yeast, sugar and water are necessary components when all you have is a molecule of 2-carbon atoms, 5hydrogen atoms and one hydroxy-molecule, to study.:)'

Acute, good! In other words, it is impossible to determine that yeast etc is necesary in the process of creating alcohol by studying alcohol alone. Therefore it is impossible to understand how alcohol can be formed by studying alcohol ALONE. This is exactly what I was saying. But you see, the study of alcohol enjoy alot, unlike mr universe. We can define other things as yeasts as to be not part of the concept 'alcohol.' This convenience fail when we apply to the universe as a whole.
Roaring Lovely May 26, 2015 at 5:57am

'you can only give definite answeres when you replicate the actual process of creating alcohol'

Acute, and how exactly will we do that if you subtitue 'alcohol' with 'universe'? Unlike alcohol, 'Universe' must include, yourself, the space around you, time and the apparatus you are using such as the accelerators and the computers!! So the actual process of creating univers is ireplicable WITHIN THE UNIVERSE. This is exactly what I meant.
Roaring Lovely May 26, 2015 at 5:47am

Acute, the case with alcohol is different because unlike alcohol the concept 'universe' must include everything perceivable to man. We study the component of alcohol because we can conceive of a thing that is not alcohol but that does not apply to universe if 'universe' includes everything. To study alcohol, we are by default comparing it with something else such as water. The 'universe' does not have such equivalent analogy
Acute Observer May 25, 2015 at 6:23pm

I just love it when conspiracy theorists rage about things they've gone about 15 years too little in school for to even grasp the basic concept of. ;)
Hellen May 23, 2015 at 9:09pm

Next they in the process of blasting the ocean floor starting June 1st ,2015...
Pet Rock May 23, 2015 at 1:19pm

hope that thing that suddenly appeared has something to do with preventing a catastrophe-there are illuminated masters in India and elsewhere who could tell them all about the beginning of the universe-for free-but hey, designing and building the thing was a boon for the local economy -and a couple guys probably got rich

http://crimsondreams.net/forum/alternative-media-news/1342-object-a...
- Acute Observer > Pet Rock May 25, 2015 at 6:29pm
  
  "there are illuminated masters in India and elsewhere who could tell them all about the beginning of the universe-for free"
  
  There are religious leaders all over the world who can TELL you their version of how things came to be, but none of them have so far been able to answer the detailed follow-up questions.
  
  Until then, religion will always be in the backseat.
  
  PS: What is an "illuminated master" anyway? A person who is under the control of Illuminati?
Roaring Lovely May 23, 2015 at 7:41am

There are a can of worms opened by the standard model that led to theories like supersymmetry. Supersymmetry predicts superparticles to solve some of the puzzles. They say for every particle in standard model, there is a coresponding superpartner! So we only know half of the world! CERN was designed to hunt evidence for superparticles. Also string theories's many dimensions were among the things persued. So they were trying to see if they might open portals to higher dimensions. But the work in 2013 never produce any evidence of sparticles, monopoles or higher dimensions. If they had not found higgs (if they didn't forge it), CERN would have been 100% failure, utterly misguided! perharps humour would be the only positive thing!