Well it looks like a world-ending black hole wasn’t formed at the site of the Large Hadron Collider and that we will, in fact, be putting in a full day of work today, tomorrow, and almost every remaining day of our lives. Hooray for science!
In the middle of the night (for those of us in the US) last night, scientists at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland started a convoy of protons around an almost 17 mile-long tunnel at just shy of the speed of light. One of the obstacles that needed to be overcome was how to steer the particles around corners, which was accomplished by using magnets spaced out along the track. According to New Scientist:
“The machine worked better than anyone expected. It took only 55 minutes for physicists to steer beams around the full 27km, and the LHC worked on its first go, far better than anyone dared to hope.”
The big experiment will come later this year, when the scientists start two proton beams in opposite directions and watch what happens when those two beams collide.
There is a leaked video on You Tube from CERN (LHC Black hole simulation Large Hadron Collider CERN) there is more to this than meets the eye, the black hole is not the concern, it is the revelation that may shatter our perception of reality.
The link is on http://godparticle.net which has insight into the revelation. Do you really think they would spend 6 billion dollars just to find a particle? The truth is related to energy, the ability to turn mass on and off, and the revelation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFYlbsTlCk0
Plus wouldn’t the black hole not be created until they did the actual colliding, that was just getting the idea of it
Call me old fashion, narrow minded, etc. I have always welcome technology, and more when it is for the advantage of humanity; like finding the cure and/or prevention of illnesses or social oriented issues. At this point it is not clear to me how an 8 billion dollar project will benefit humanity. Will it help the great minds of scientists to figure out how to convince governments to gather/donate money to end starvation, will increase awareness on gas emissions, will it help us to find other means for fuel other than oil?
Well yes or no, depending on the results. Heck, if they do find the Higgs Boson and somehow figure out how to use it to use unlimited energy all of mankind of be greatly befitted. Also, having an incorrect model of the universe (if they don’t find the Higgs Boson) could impede our understanding of the universe.