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Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the group that manages the Large Hadron Collider, announced that the first proton beams had already been injected in the massive particle accelerator, and that they had completed thousands of spins in its tunnels. The 27-kilometer-long facility saw ... |
21 November 2009
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Scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are undoubtedly among some of the luckiest investigators on the planet, having been given the chance to contribute to the most advanced research experiments in the history of humankind. But, even though the particle accelerator has yet to produce concrete result... |
20 November 2009
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Next to the International Space Station (ISS), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is arguably the most complex and amazing human scientific project ever constructed. Its main goal is to recreate the conditions that existed just a few fractions of a second after the beginning of the Universe, immediately after the event ... |
15 November 2009
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undoubtedly the most ambitious science project ever undertaken by people. Its purpose is to look directly at the conditions that led to the formation of everything around us, and provide a firm confirmation for the Standard Model as well. But, other than the unfounded talk of black ... |
12 November 2009
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According to CERN, the operator of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), engineers have recently been able to successfully inject particle beams inside sections of the amazingly large particle accelerator. The world's largest physics experiment was shut down in September 2008, after a leak compromised a section of th... |
27 October 2009
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Debris falling off the external fuel tank was the main reason why space shuttle Columbia was lost on February 1, 2003. The flying foam breached the structural integrity of the heat shield, and broke a few ceramic tiles apart. Upon atmospheric reentry, the spacecraft's wing came under extreme stress from soaring ... |
26 October 2009
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A 32-year-old man working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), near the French-Swiss border, was detained under accusations of terrorism last week, when it was proven that he was entertaining links with the renowned terrorist organization al-Qaeda. The man, who is of Algerian descent, was working on an experiment insi... |
13 October 2009
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In spite of the fact that the 27-kilometer-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was built in order to further our understanding of particle physics, and also to discover the elusive Higgs boson, engineers and physicists are also planning other uses for it. In the near future, one such purpose may be to test the validity ... |
8 October 2009
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According to initial plans, the Large Hadron Collider should have already produced its first scientific results by now. But, as it stands, malfunctions have delayed its operation considerably, and now experts are working around the clock on bringing the largest particle accelerator in the world back online. As repair... |
28 September 2009
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In a strange turn of events, we note that it's not the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that has the most powerful magnets, but a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine. The monstrosity is apparently able to generate a 9.4 Tesla magnetic field, and boasts a magnet that weighs 45 tons. To its praise, the LHC indeed featur... |
18 September 2009
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Ever since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was under construction, the Batavia, Illinois-based Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) began to work extra-hard on finding the elusive Higgs Boson. This elementary particle would complete and firmly prove the Standard Model in physics, which now features two cl... |
31 August 2009
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Shortly after managing to fix the helium leaks that forced engineers to shut down the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) last September, project managers discovered another fluke. This time, they identified two areas of vacuum leak, in regions of the particle accelerator that needed to be cooled near absolute zero. The new ... |
21 July 2009
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Hollywood movies have always had the talent of inspiring panic where there was usually nothing to fear, and the latest productions are no different, what with the threat of the Vatican being destroyed by antimatter generated at the Large Hadron Collider and all that. Needless to say, the script is pure fantasy, but p... |
29 May 2009
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After constructions that lasted more than a decade and billions of dollars invested in the world's largest scientific experiment, physicists who are now operating the Large Hadron Collider have just realized that they don't really know how the entire system works, in all of its details. As a result, they sa... |
27 May 2009
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According to the latest developments in Austria, the country will remain a part of the massive European physics research initiative CERN, the main operator of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Earlier this month, the nation announced that it would withdraw from the cooperation, in order to invest the money it had caug... |
19 May 2009
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The late UC Santa Cruz scientist Donald Coyne and Almaden Research Center expert D. C. Cheng proposed some time ago the hypothesis that all particles in existence were nothing more than mini-black holes. While disregarded at the time, the idea has gained some support in the academic community over the past years, wit... |
18 May 2009
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Austrian science minister Johannes Hahn has recently announced that the nation would withdraw from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), seeking to reinvest the money it has caught up in the scientific project into other endeavors. The announcement comes at a very bad time, just six months before the... |
9 May 2009
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The Large Hadron Collider is the largest scientific experiment ever built by human hands and, as such, is the structure scientists expect most from. Among the possible outcomes of LHC experiments, the most important ones include the discovery of the Higgs boson (God's particle), the creation of anti-matter, the ... |
29 April 2009
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Finding the elusive Higgs boson, the particle that makes energy acquire mass, has been the goal of physicists for several decades, and projects such as Fermilab and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have appeared to accomplish exactly that. Now, due to the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy (DOE)'s Fe... |
12 March 2009
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At this year's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago, swords have been drawn. Through the voices of Director Pier Oddone, and colleague Dr. Dmitri Denisov, Fermilab announced that it could beat the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)'s Larg... |
17 February 2009
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The European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) is currently trying to reassure people of the fact that it's physically impossible to create antimatter in the world's largest particle accelerator, so as to allay fears that have been growing over the past years. In Dan Brown's book, “Angels & Demo... |
13 February 2009
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has recently announced that the deadline for the completion of the repairs currently being made on its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator near Geneva has been pushed back until late September, amidst concerns that the helium cooling system may fail a... |
10 February 2009
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Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho, the two plaintiffs who sued CERN to stop inauguration of the Large Hadron Collider, couldn't take “no” for an answer when their first attempt at shutting down the world's best particle accelerator failed, so they decided to take their case to the court of appeals. ... |
6 February 2009
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The Large Hadron Collider is currently the largest particle accelerator in the world, built under the Swiss-Franc border for the staggering price of 6 billion Swiss francs ($5.2 billion). It features a 27 kilometer (17 miles)-long circular tunnel, which is used to accelerate specific beams of particles at speeds clos... |
26 January 2009
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The Large Hadron Collider, the largest high-energy physics facility in the world, has been under constant criticism for its potential effects on the planet, with doom sayers arguing that the colliding two beams of particles at 99.99 percent the speed of light, and at temperatures reaching trillions of degrees, could ... |
22 January 2009
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The Large Hadron Collider, the most intricate piece of technology our civilization has been able to come up with thus far, has proven once again that no matter how much effort goes into constructing it (20 years) and how much money it costs to build (roughly $9 billion), a large machine is not always the answer. Just... |
5 January 2009
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Apple is featuring an article on one of the physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider, who just so happens to be a huge Mac fan. According to Brian Cox, any physicist will tell you that the Mac is the way to go, especially if you need to run both new apps and old UNIX programs. According to the piece currently... |
28 December 2008
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Following the glitches in September, known as "quench" happening during the "S34 Incident," which affected sectors 3-4 of the Large Hadron Collider's ring, the repairs were estimated to cost about 35 million Swiss francs ($29 million), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced yesterday. Ac... |
6 December 2008
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In the past few months, the Large Hadron Collider slowly disappeared from public attention and kept an increasingly lower profile. However, just when not much was expected to be heard about it – since the last statements did not have anything interesting programmed LHC-wise until next June – something act... |
1 December 2008
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A Belgian scientist has demonstrated in a recent paper that the decade-long dream of physicists all over the world might prove to be unprovable. This refers to the grand unification (or unified) theory, also known as GUT, devised in the late '70s. It implies that the electromagnetic, weak nuclear, and strong nuc... |
20 November 2008
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Tomasz Skwarnicki, a physicist from Syracuse University, is among the scientists interested in the search for the Higgs boson. This boson is the elementary particle that confers mass to all the other particles. According to the standard model, there can be only one such particle, but recent calculations resulted in t... |
21 October 2008
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The latest statements from CERN officials shed more light on the Large Hadron Collider glitch that happened more than one month ago, on September 19, and indicate that the device will not be fully operable sooner than May or June of next year. It seems that the electrical failure caused irreversible damage to 29 of ... |
21 October 2008
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As explained in a recent article, the Large Hadron Collider's latest malfunction was due to the leaking of a major quantity of helium from the superconducting solenoid magnet caused by the melting of an electrical connection because of the high voltage involved. Now, scientists found out that it happened as a r... |
8 October 2008
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The winner of the renaming contest for the Large Hadron Collider, hosted by Wired, is now known: the device will henceforth be called "Black Mesa"; at least by people from Wired. In all admittance, compared to the importance of the device's goals, its magnificence, as well as the tons of science compacted ... |
26 September 2008
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Scientists from CERN stated on Saturday that the Large Hadron Collider may be shut down for at least 2 months, following the leak of a large quantity of helium – used in order to cool one of the proton-guiding magnets – into the collider tunnel. This is the last and the worst out of a series of unfortunat... |
22 September 2008
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We have all heard about the Large Hadron Collider, it is the biggest and highest energy particle accelerator in the world. Essentially, it is a big ring, located beneath the border between France and Switzerland, with the central part on the outskirts of Geneva. Its purpose is to collide beams of prot... |
19 September 2008
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Only a week after it had been started, LHC, world's biggest particle smasher, had to be stopped on Wednesday because of an electrical fault, as CERN officially announces. The recent failures of the LHC staff haven't even been forgotten yet, and a new one comes to increase the world's doubts relat... |
19 September 2008
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The Large Hadron Collider has recently been the target of a hacker attack, which raised serious concerns about the security capabilities of world's biggest experiment. So, yes, LHC is in the spotlight again. It seems that the public hysteria caused by the hypothetical idea that LHC could trigger the formati... |
13 September 2008
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Physicists from the University of Michigan stumbled upon the proton's distant cousin, the Omega b baryon, as a result of their research at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois.While CERN and their contested and heavily discussed LHC still hold first pages of newspapers and fuel news a... |
11 September 2008
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10:36 am, today. The main computer screen in one of the LHC surveillance rooms displays 2 flashing dots, indicating that the last test has been successfully completed. Humankind still exists. Perhaps the most believable story about the apocalypse is the most recent one, linked to the power-up of the LHC (which w... |
10 September 2008
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As the time remaining until the first true LHC experiment passes at a snail’s pace, the physicists in charge with the whole process are threatened to be killed by people who, in turn, fear for their lives. There's little common knowledge regarding the LHC and physics in general. People generally thin... |
8 September 2008
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The Large Hadron Collider is rapidly approaching completion and should become operational by the end of the year. It will become the biggest particle collider ever built, probably powerful enough to create even microscopic black holes. It has been suggested on a number of occasions, despite CERN's reassurance, t... |
1 July 2008
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The attention of the world has recently been focused on the startling assertion made by the DAMA experiment researchers claiming that they have found evidence of WIMP particles existence, possible constituents of dark matter, while the Large Hadron Collider was somehow forgotten for a brief period of time. The most p... |
24 April 2008
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"Higgs Boson" or the "God Particle", was predicted almost four decades ago by British physicist Peter Higgs as a mean to explain how fundamental particles gain mass in the space-time continuum. Higgs believes that it will be found by CERNs Large Hadron Collider, expected to become operational by the end of this year.... |
8 April 2008
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The Large Hadron Collider is quickly approaching completion and is expected to begin operation by the middle of the this year. However, while physicists are barely waiting to start experimenting with the world's most powerful particle accelerator, campaigners in the United States would give anything to see the L... |
29 March 2008
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Where is all that strange substance we now call antimatter? Theory predicts that, in the first few seconds of the universe, matter and antimatter were found in roughly the same proportion, but somehow most of the antimatter was annihilated during interactions with matter. These annihilation processes eventually left ... |
19 March 2008
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With the fitting of the last major component of what is now the worlds largest particles accelerator, the build of Large Hadron Collider has been completed. All that remains now is to connect all the smaller components of the collider, in the hope that, by the end of this year, the preliminary experiments may begin. ... |
5 March 2008
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Strange, but true nonetheless. The Standard Model represents a theory that incorporates all the characteristics of the material which makes up the universe we live in. There is only one problem though, out of the four elementary forces exerted between interacting matter, the Standard Model only describes three of the... |
3 March 2008
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The long expected CERN Large Hadron Collider will become operational somewhere this spring, and physicists all around the world can hardly wait to see what new discoveries it will bring. For example, whether the LHC accelerating particles towards each other at speeds close to that of light are able to prove the super... |
28 January 2008
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Yet another step in the completion of the Large Hadron Collider was taken yesterday morning, as the final element of the Compact Muon Solenoid was lowered nearly 100 meters bellow ground. After more than eight years of work at the world's most powerful particle accelerator, scientists hope that they will be able... |
23 January 2008
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