As the entire 'scientifically literate' world held it's breath, the universe has come to life again(or is atleast going to).
Finally, 200 Indian scientists embark on something the global world has decided to include them in.To me, it sounds like a factual remake of 'Angels and Demons' minus the religious part.
Half of us are drenched in anticipation and the other half are against this unnatural process. The others are just indifferent.
This is a moment where mankind is on the borderline of either something amazing or something equally amazingly destructive.Statiscally speaking, it's the largest man-made experiment and we're a part of it!!(I mean it's happening in our times)
2000 scientists,a $10-billion effort, 14 years!!Particle accelerators are a common concept in terms of nuclear physics..and the LHC(large hadron collider) went live this morning in the Alps along the French-Swiss border..
It stretches for about 27 km!Conducted by the CERN(a French acronym for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research),the tunnel, buried 100 metres underground, is lined with sensors and 1,600 superconducting magnets across eight sectors, which are held at an operating temperature of 271 degrees below zero — colder than outer space. The LHC accelerator, which is accurate to a nanosecond, will be used to slam particles into each other to try to recreate the conditions at the beginning of time — as in the Big Bang.
This experiment known as the 'holy grail of cosmic science' is a mecca for "major" religious &
scientific controversies all rolled into one.Will this lead to a recreation of the 'genesis era' or will it result in the genesis of a black monster?Can you even imagine that in a span of a nanosecond, without knowledge, we all might be sucked into the unknown and we might vanish from the face of the earth, and the earth from the face of the universe?Scary..The risk involved is a little too much but if fruitful, the results will make us as omnipotent as never before.As the particles smash together they will break apart into smaller, more fundamental components, giving physicists a fleeting chance to observe those particles, some of which have never been seen before :O
"Professor Taylor says the experiment's opponents are completely misguided in their stance.
''One of the things we are trying to do is create mini-black holes which scientifically would be a magnificent thing and tell us we don't live in three dimensions, but that we live in nine or 10 dimensions,'' Professor Taylor said.
''As soon as you say there is the possibility of creating black holes, you have people saying we are going to be swallowed up by black holes.
''That's where the furore has come and it's completely misguided.''
Professor Taylor said if today's experiment showed there were more than the three dimensions height, width and depth it could change the way we looked at life. One of the most anticipated products might be the elusive Higgs boson, or the God Particle, which could explain how other elementary particles acquired properties such as mass."
''One of the things we are trying to do is create mini-black holes which scientifically would be a magnificent thing and tell us we don't live in three dimensions, but that we live in nine or 10 dimensions,'' Professor Taylor said.
''As soon as you say there is the possibility of creating black holes, you have people saying we are going to be swallowed up by black holes.
''That's where the furore has come and it's completely misguided.''
Professor Taylor said if today's experiment showed there were more than the three dimensions height, width and depth it could change the way we looked at life. One of the most anticipated products might be the elusive Higgs boson, or the God Particle, which could explain how other elementary particles acquired properties such as mass."
-Canberra Times
The God particle??One can imagine the possibilities it's discovery might create by the intensity of it's name itself.Phew..
They say that the collision of two protons gives rise to an amount of energy equal to that of two colliding mosquitoes...??
Google searches for the 'Big Bang' has two related topics..
1. Black holes(someone has commented "Is this really true?Can we all die tomorrow?".....Weird)
2.Big Crunch
For all those of you who don't know what this is, here is it's 'wikipediaic' definition:
In physical cosmology, the Big Crunch is one possible scenario for the ultimate fate of the universe, in which the metric expansion of space eventually reverses and the universe recollapses, ultimately ending as a black hole singularity.
It basically talks about the end while Big Bang talks about the beginning.
They say that "At the end, we start thinking about the beginning"..So is this the end??
Well..only time and technology will tell!
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