God Particle
God Particle: Hunt for Higgs boson is over....
Particle physics is the unbelievable in pursuit of the
unimaginable.
To pinpoint the smallest fragments of the universe
scientists have to build the biggest machine in the world.
To recreate the first millionths of a second of creation
scientific exploration are in progress to focus energy on an awesome scale.
The Higgs boson ‘God Particle’ is said to have been
discovered by smashing together particles at close to the speed of light in the
10 billion Swiss franc (6.2 billion pound) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at the
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
Here is the few facts about such massive scientific project on our planet Earth:
1. Though built to study the smallest known building blocks of all things - known as particles - the LHC is the largest and most complex machine ever made. It has a circumference of 27 km (17 miles) and lies underground, straddling French and Swiss territory.
Here is the few facts about such massive scientific project on our planet Earth:
1. Though built to study the smallest known building blocks of all things - known as particles - the LHC is the largest and most complex machine ever made. It has a circumference of 27 km (17 miles) and lies underground, straddling French and Swiss territory.
2. At full power, trillions of protons can race around
the LHC accelerator ring 11,245 times a second, traveling at 99.99 percent the
speed of light - engineering 600 million collisions every second.
3. When two beams of protons collide, temperatures more than 100,000 times hotter than the heart of the sun, concentrated within a miniscule space are generated. The cooling system that circulates superfluid helium around the LHC's accelerator ring keeps the machine at minus 271.3 degrees Celsius (minus 456.34 degrees Fahrenheit).
4. To collect data of up to 600 million proton collisions per second, physicists and scientists built devices to measure the passage time of a particle to a few billionths of a second. The trigger system also registers the location of particles to millionths of a meter.
3. When two beams of protons collide, temperatures more than 100,000 times hotter than the heart of the sun, concentrated within a miniscule space are generated. The cooling system that circulates superfluid helium around the LHC's accelerator ring keeps the machine at minus 271.3 degrees Celsius (minus 456.34 degrees Fahrenheit).
4. To collect data of up to 600 million proton collisions per second, physicists and scientists built devices to measure the passage time of a particle to a few billionths of a second. The trigger system also registers the location of particles to millionths of a meter.
5. Tens of thousands of computers around the world have
been harnessed in a computing network called "The Grid" that will
hold the information.
God Particle or Higgs boson is a subatmoic particle which
explain about mass of a substance and could provide an understanding for why an
object in our universe have mass and so doing..
Without it, we had have no gallexies, no planets and even
no life....
Let's explore this new and frontier areas of research and
development.
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