If you were ever interested in learning how the Large Hadron Collider actually works, this is your chance. The video above shows how the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) instrument on the world's largest particle accelerator works.
The LHC was built primarily to detect the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle th... |
9 April 2012
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For a long time, astrophysicists have been puzzled by the reason why matter prevailed over antimatter, just seconds after the Big Bang exploded everything into being. According to theory, everything currently in the Cosmos should not have existed. The initial explosion should have produced equal quantities of matter ... |
16 February 2010
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Researchers at the University of Glasgow believe that the Bc meson, one of the newest types of hypothesized elementary particles, may have already been unknowingly produced in particle accelerators such as the Tevatron, in Illinois. Facilities operated by CERN, including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and others, ma... |
26 January 2010
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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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