Elementary particle

Call it a miracle. CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, is once again circulating particle beams and has already crashed together its first particles. Yesterday afternoon, researchers tuned beams to...

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...Iranian leader arrived at the first of three Latin American nations he will visit this week. New York Times: Near Geneva, Particles Finally Come Together With a Bang The Large Hadron Collider, the worlda s biggest and most...

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...than ... > read more If The Large Hadron Collider Produced A Microscopic Black Hole, It Probably Wouldn't Matter (June 30, 2008) Particle colliders creating black holes that could devour the Earth. Sounds like a great Hollywood script.

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...been passed since then, CERN announced. The LHC reached its operating temperature of 1.9 Kelvin, or about -271 Celsius, on October 8. Particles were injected on October 23, but not circulated. A beam was steered through three octants of the...

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...denigrated by reputable scientists. The projects' repeated failures to get properly going were met with suggestions that an elementary particle, which the LHC was meant to discover, was affecting the experiment retroactively through...

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...have regularly been passed since then. The LHC reached its operating temperature of 1.9 Kelvin, or about -271 Celsius, on 8 October. Particles were injected on 23 October, but not circulated. A beam was steered through three octants of...

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...Research (Cern), the LHC will create similar conditions to those which were present moments after the Big Bang. Advertisement Particle physicist Jim Virdee says that scientists are excited that the LHC is coming back online "It's...

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And by "super hot" I mean disgusting. Why anybody would want to have sex with this is beyond me. Like particle physics. I understand many elementary particles do not occur naturally, but are created only during high energy collisions of other...

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...intellectually interesting, cannot be accurate because the event that the LHC is trying to recreate already happens in nature. Particle collisions of an energy equivalent to those planned in the LHC occur when high-energy cosmic rays...

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...quantum field that suffuses the entire cosmos. Later dubbed the Higgs field, it imparts mass to all particles. The mass an elementary particle such as an electron or quark acquires depends on the strength of its interactions with the Higgs...

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