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Dawn of the Large Hadron Collider


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zorg.ch
#105620 by @ 26.02.2008 00:00 - nach oben -
Explanation:


Explanation:
Why do objects have mass?

To help find out,
Europe's
CERN has built the
Large Hadron Collider
(LHC), the most powerful
particle accelerator
yet created by
humans.

This May, the
LHC is scheduled to start smashing protons into each other with unprecedented impact speeds.

The LHC
will explore the leading explanation that mass arises from
ordinary particles slogging through an otherwise invisible but pervasive
field of
virtual Higgs particles.

Were high energy colliding particles to create real
Higgs bosons, the
Higgs mechanism
for mass creation may be bolstered.

LHC will also look for
micro black holes,
magnetic monopoles,
and explore the possibility that every type of
fundamental particle we know about has a nearly invisible
supersymmetric counterpart.

The LHC@Home
project will allow anyone with a home computer to help
LHC scientists
search archived LHC data for these strange beasts.

Pictured above,
a person stands in front of the huge
ATLAS detector,
one of six detectors being attached to the
LHC.



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zorg.ch
#105622 by @ 26.02.2008 10:22 - nach oben -
Sie säged do wieder Mai, aber es wird eh Juli werde...
zorg.ch
#105625 by @ 26.02.2008 15:56 - nach oben -
bi scho ganz kribbelig
zorg.ch
#105626 by @ 26.02.2008 16:18 - nach oben -
LHC
(luägsch hald chli)
zorg.ch
#105671 by @ 29.02.2008 17:20 - nach oben -
es isch äbä enart scho zum spitz werdä da ding
zorg.ch
#105681 by @ 01.03.2008 02:37 - nach oben -
wem seisch da. da wird en porno-event!
zorg.ch
#105687 by @ 01.03.2008 19:33 - nach oben -
big-bang
zorg.ch
#105694 by @ 02.03.2008 22:57 - nach oben -
lmao :)
zorg.ch
#105716 by @ 03.03.2008 22:04 - nach oben -
LARGE HARDON COLIDER
zorg.ch
#105718 by @ 03.03.2008 22:16 - nach oben -
Large Hadron Collider ist laaaaaaaarge.
zorg.ch
#105720 by @ 03.03.2008 22:21, edited @ 03.03.2008 22:21 - nach oben -
the more harden, the collider?
zorg.ch
#105723 by @ 04.03.2008 02:14 - nach oben -
oh lol

ich hab den gar nicht bemerkt. scheiss brain-autocorrection.
zorg.ch
#105724 by @ 04.03.2008 08:05 - nach oben -
mhm, ich auch nicht - aber er ist mir nachher selber eingefallen, und ich hab dann angefangen daran zu zweifeln, ob er wirklich "hadron" geschrieben hatte :-)