A mini-Big Bang has been generated
By gewcew23
@gewcew23 (8007)
United States
November 9, 2010 9:53am CST
The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, the world's highest-energy particle accelerator has successfully generated a mini-Big Bang that is similar to the one that happen 13.7 billion years ago except smaller. The point of this exercise is to learn about the plasma the Universe was made of a millionth of a second after the Big Bang. Also by studying the plasma, physicists hoped to learn more about the so called strong force the force that binds the nuclei of atoms together and that is responsible for 98% of their mass.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11711228
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3 responses
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
9 Nov 10
It's funny to think of man being able to create and maneuver such an occurrence, even on such a minuscule scale!
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
11 Nov 10
It is! The human mind is the best computer! because it can think! Although the older I get, the more empty space in there! And disconnections between bits of information!
@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
9 Nov 10
Yeah I followed the Collider story very closely and it was nice to learn that such an expensive experiment was able to get concluded without any serious repercussions. Infact some people were saying the energy released at a temperature of 4,000,0000,000.000 degrees would affect the area around the experiment but thank God nothing happened!
@dark_joev (3034)
• United States
10 Nov 10
This is awesome it is all because a man name Gordon Freeman is there (J/k, I will be really surprised if anyone knows where the reference is from)
No I am really happy that the experiment worked in and everything went as planed for the small amount of seconds that this experiment lasted. It is good to know that we are getting closer to proving some of the theories that have been on the shelf of Science for many many years.
