Large Hadron Collider Operational - Page 2

[Simone]

Very interesting, I wonder what's going to happen.

[Andrew]

A fun audio interview on Quantum physics by Professor Brian Cox, who states that it 'is not difficult'...well you can be the judge of that.

Click on the image to listen to the interview:

[Andrew]

Neutrino experiment repeated at Cern finds same result.

The team behind the finding in September that neutrinos may travel faster than light has carried out an improved version of their experiment - and found the same result.



If confirmed by other experiments, the find could undermine one of the basic principles of modern physics.

Critics of the first report had said that the long bunches of neutrinos used could introduce an error into the test.

Read more here: BBC Science and technology

[ChrisS]

I wonder what can occur from such a result (if it is proven to be correct), what can change on how we see the world, how we understand the world, what new possibilities might emerge cause like Einstein said if you could send a message faster than light, “You could send a telegram to the past”. Interesting....

[Andrew]

Can time be reversed?

Listen Dr Giles Barr, a physicist at Oxford University, explains that if particles travel faster than light, time could effectively be "reversed".

Click here to listen

Thank you ChrisS for the link on this.

[Andrew]

LHC: Higgs boson 'may have been glimpsed'


Two teams at the LHC have seen hints of what may well prove to be the Higgs

The most coveted prize in particle physics - the Higgs boson - may have been glimpsed, say researchers reporting at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva.

The particle is purported to be the means by which everything in the Universe obtains its mass.

Scientists say that two experiments at the LHC see hints of the Higgs at the same mass, fuelling huge excitement.

But the LHC does not yet have enough data to claim a discovery? Click here to read more...

Source: BBC

More: The science of Higgs boson explained.

[ChrisS]

Finally it was CERN's mistake and not Einstein's


After all it was proven that scientists at CERN made a mistake and the result that neutrinos travel faster than light was only a wrong calculation occurring from an unstable wire. Despite that further experiments will continue to prove that the wrong calculation was actually a technical mistake.

For more information click here (http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/22/ein ... -of-error/)

[Andrew]

Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC

Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson. Click here to read more...


...or follow the links below to discover what all the raucous is about.

Q&A: The Higgs boson

What in the World Is a Higgs Boson? Click here to read more.

Source:
BBC News
The New York Times

[Andrew]

LHC is taking a long nap.

The Large Hadron Collider has turned off its particle beams ahead of a shut-down period that will last two years.



The particle accelerator is best known for identifying a particle believed to be the Higgs boson in late 2012.

But following technical faults shortly after it first switched on, the machine has never been run at the full energies for which it was designed.

A programme of repairs and upgrades to the accelerator and its infrastructure should allow that in late 2014.

For more information click on the link below:
BBC Science