Is doomsday beckoning. The Large Hadron Collider
Our understanding of the Universe is about to change… The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionise our understanding, from the miniscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe.

Two beams of subatomic particles called ‘hadrons’ – either protons or lead ions – will travel in opposite directions inside the circular accelerator, gaining energy with every lap. Physicists will use the LHC to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, by colliding the two beams head-on at very high energy. Teams of physicists from around the world will analyse the particles created in the collisions using special detectors in a number of experiments dedicated to the LHC

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One Response to “The Hadron Collider – Are we creating a block hole here on Earth”

1. Billy Big Says:
   March 9th, 2008 at 10:06 pm

   Erm…………block holes hardly strike terror into the hearts of men, black holes on the other hand make men empty the contents of their bowels, but God will not allow this to happen.

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