The Search For "God Particle," Higgs Boson, Anti Matter, Big Bang, etc. Is Underway..

[Steve Dii]

I find this to be the most exciting news for those into physics and the science of nature of particles. Pundit na wenzake must be jovial about this. I have been following news about this for a while. Sasa hivi countdown imeanza kutafuta "hapo mwanzo palikuwa na nini." The enigmatic nature of dark matter, alpha particles, et al is likely to be revealed in a couple of years. The machine will be commissioned on 10th Sept.

Zamani nilikuwa nawaza kama naruhusiwa kwenda popote pale - basi ningelienda kwenye space station. Leo hii nikijiuliza, jibu ni kwenda kuona hiyo Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the greatest scientific endeavor, the most complex scientific machine, the largest scientific equipment ever built....Please someni yafuatayo:

The LHC is the world's most powerful particle accelerator, producing beams seven times more energetic than any previous machine, and around 30 times more intense when it reaches design performance, probably by 2010. Housed in a 27-kilometre tunnel, it relies on technologies that would not have been possible 30 years ago. The LHC is, in a sense, its own prototype.
Starting up such a machine is not as simple as flipping a switch.

Commissioning is a long process that starts with the cooling down of each of the machine's eight sectors. This is followed by the electrical testing of the 1600 superconducting magnets and their individual powering to nominal operating current. These steps are followed by the powering together of all the circuits of each sector, and then of the eight independent sectors in unison in order to operate as a single machine.


By the end of July, this work was approaching completion, with all eight sectors at their operating temperature of 1.9 degrees above absolute zero (-271°C). The next phase in the process is synchronization of the LHC with the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator, which forms the last link in the LHC's injector chain. Timing between the two machines has to be accurate to within a fraction of a nanosecond.

A first synchronization test is scheduled for the weekend of 9 August, for the clockwise-circulating LHC beam, with the second to follow over the coming weeks. Tests will continue into September to ensure that the entire machine is ready to accelerate and collide beams at an energy of 5 TeV per beam, the target energy for 2008. Force majeure notwithstanding, the LHC will see its first circulating beam on 10 September at the injection energy of 450 GeV (0.45 TeV).
Once stable circulating beams have been established, they will be brought into collision, and the final step will be to commission the LHC's acceleration system to boost the energy to 5 TeV, taking particle physics research to a new frontier.


‘We're finishing a marathon with a sprint,' said LHC project leader Lyn Evans. ‘It's been a long haul, and we're all eager to get the LHC research programme underway.'


CERN will be issuing regular status updates between now and first collisions. Journalists wishing to attend CERN for the first beam on 10 September must be accredited with the CERN press office. Since capacity is limited, priority will be given to news media. The event will be webcast through http://webcast.cern.ch, and distributed through the Eurovision network. Live stand up and playout facilities will also be available.


A media centre will be established at the main CERN site, with access to the control centres for the accelerator and experiments limited and allocated on a first come first served basis. This includes camera positions at the CERN Control Centre, from where the LHC is run. Only television media will be able to access the CERN Control Centre. No underground access will be possible.

Source: http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2008/PR06.08E.html

Underground search for 'God particle'


By Paul Rincon
BBC News science reporter in Geneva, Switzerland


At the foot of the Jura Mountains, where Switzerland meets France, is a laboratory so vast it boggles the mind.

But take a drive past the open fields, traditional chalets and petite new apartment blocks and you will look for it in vain.


To find this enormous complex, you have to travel beneath the surface.
One hundred metres below Geneva's western suburbs is a dimly lit tunnel that runs in a circle for 27km (17 miles).

A circular tunnel runs for 27km under the French-Swiss border (pic: bbc)

Nature is much smarter than us. It might come up with a real surprise and that would be much more interesting - much more satisfying
Professor Jim Virdee, Imperial College London

The tunnel belongs to Cern, the European Centre for Nuclear Research. Though currently empty, over the next two years an enormous experiment will be installed here.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a powerful and impossibly complicated machine that will smash particles together at super-fast speeds in a bid to unlock the secrets of the Universe.

'New physics'


By recreating the searing-hot conditions fractions of a second after the Big Bang, scientists hope to see new physics, discover the sought-after "God particle", uncover new dimensions and even generate mini-black holes.
When completed, two parallel tubes will carry high-energy particles called protons in opposite directions around the tunnel at close to the speed of light.

The Atlas experiment will join the search for the Higgs boson at Cern (pic: bbc)


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The tunnel's huge circumference provides only the slightest of bends. Nevertheless, around 5,000 superconducting magnets are needed to steer and focus the particles around the tubes.


"When the coils are energised there is one jumbo jet - 500 tonnes - per metre pushing outwards," says LHC project leader Lyn Evans.
Along the way, the proton beams will pass through enormous experimental instruments called detectors where they will cross.


When some of these protons collide at high energy, heavier particles can appear amongst the debris.

Great quest


When the LHC is turned on in the latter half of 2007, physicists will scour this crash wreckage for signs of the Higgs boson.


The Higgs is nicknamed the God particle because of its importance to the Standard Model, the theory devised to explain how sub-atomic particles interact with each other.


The 16 particles that make up this model (12 matter particles and 4 force carrier particles) would have no mass if considered alone. So another particle - the Higgs boson - is postulated to exist to account for this omission.

"The Standard Model is the best thing we've come up with so far," says Jim Virdee, spokesman for the team working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector.

But everyone recognises it is merely a stage on the way to something else. The Standard Model describes ordinary matter and yet astronomical observations show this makes up but a small part of the total Universe.
Needless to say, new theories are gaining ground and discoveries at the LHC could lead physicists towards a unified theory to explain how the Universe works.

"We are at a stage where the theorists do not know which direction to go in. The results from [our] experiment will determine which direction science takes," says Professor Virdee, who is based at Imperial College London, UK.
"We don't always like theorists to tell us what we should find. Nature is much smarter than us.

"It might come up with a real surprise and that would be much more interesting - much more satisfying."

Huge scale


The detectors at the LHC will count, trace and analyse the particles that emerge from the collisions between protons.

To call them experiments simply does not give an idea of their scale. The equipment weighs tens of thousands of tonnes and in some cases is as tall as a multi-storey building.


This week marked the inauguration of the enormous cavern at Cessy in France that will house the CMS. A 78m-long shaft leads up to the surface, through which the CMS will be lowered by crane early next year.

Both the CMS and its rival experiment, Atlas, are based on a cylindrical "onion" structure with several layers to perform different roles.

By 2010, nearly one billion collisions will take place every second in these detectors.

"CMS needs to collect a sample of several hundred collisions out of 40 million. And we have just three microseconds to decide whether a collision produced something interesting," Professor Virdee told the BBC News website.

High energy

After attending the CMS inauguration, we travelled just across the border to Switzerland, where the Atlas cavern is located.

Measuring 53m long, 30m wide and 35m high, it is taller than Canterbury Cathedral and is currently empty but for the support structures that will hold the detector in place.


"You're visiting at a good time; it won't look like this again," says Atlas technical co-ordinator Mark Hatch.

High radiation levels when the LHC is running mean access to these caverns will be forbidden when the machine is in operation, creating problems for the scientists.


The energies achieved by the experiment are 70 times greater than those of the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) which previously occupied the tunnels at Cern.


Only by raising the bar will scientists be able to expand our current understanding of the Universe.


Whatever the discoveries ahead for physicists working at the LHC, the experiments will, according to its chief scientific officer, Jos Engelen, "keep physicists off street corners for a long time to come".


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Cancel your plans for next Wednesday, it could be your last day on Earth. Or could it?
(Large Hadron Collider will not turn world to goo, promise scientists) Those in fear of what might become of this planet someni hapa: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4682260.ece



Blog ya wanaofatilia mambo mbalimbali kwenye LHC hii hapa: http://uslhc.us/blogs/?m=200809


SteveD.

 

[Koba]

World's Biggest Physics Experiment Moves Closer to Completion
By Art Chimes
Washington, DC
08 September 2008


The biggest science experiment on Earth is expected to take a big step forward on Wednesday. As we hear from VOA's Art Chimes, an international team of scientists is getting ready to fire up the Large Hadron Collider, even as skeptics fear it could have disastrous consequences.



Technician on work platform inspects the massive CMS detector, which tracks particle collisions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known by its French acronym, CERN, are planning to send a beam of particles racing around the 27-kilometer ring of the Large Hadron Collider for the first time.

The LHC, as it's known, is the world's most powerful particle accelerator. CERN physicist Tejinder Virdee says it's designed to explore some of the most fundamental questions in physics.

"At the end of this, it is possible that our view of nature, of how the nature works at the fundamental level, would be altered in the same way, for example, that Einstein had altered our view of space and time about 100 years ago," he said. "So the scientific results could be extremely important."

The Large Hadron Collider is housed in a circular tunnel, buried under the French-Swiss border just outside Geneva.

Beams of subatomic protons and other particles will zip around the ring, accelerated up to nearly the speed of light by some 1,800 superconducting magnet systems.

Protons will reach an energy level of 7 trillion electron volts, seven times more powerful than in any existing accelerator. The project has cost an estimated $5.8 billion.

When the LHC goes into full operation, scientists will aim beams of particles directly at each other. When particles collide - up to 600 million times a second - special sensors will detect and record the collisions, and a network of computers will analyze the vast amount of data generated.

It's designed in part to mimic conditions present at the beginning of the universe, the Big Bang, almost 15 billion years ago.

Researchers will also be looking for a subatomic particle known as the Higgs Boson. The Standard Model of particle physics predicts that it exists… but it has never been seen. CERN physicist Mike Seymour says the elusive Higgs Boson has a nickname that conveys its importance.

"People call it 'God's particle' because it really has a very important central role in our whole theory of what everything is made of, of matter," Seymour explained. "Because without the Higgs particle we wouldn't be able to understand why any of the elementary particles have masses. The more we discover about the Higgs mechanism, the more we will understand about the dynamics of the early universe."

As scientists and technicians prepare to send a particle beam all the way around the LHC, some critics have wondered whether attempts to reproduce conditions at the beginning of the universe may create a black hole that could destroy the Earth.

A CERN team that studied the matter concluded there was no danger of that happening, and lawsuits filed by opponents have not succeeded in stopping work on the LHC.

CERN physicist John Ellis says simply, the skeptics are wrong. "LHC is only going to reproduce what nature does every second, it has been doing for billions of years, and all of these astronomical bodies including the earth and the sun, they are still here. So there really is no problem."

Well, let's hope not. The first beam of particles is set to make that 27-kilometer trip around the Large Hadron Collider on Wednesday.

 

[MiratKad]

World's Biggest Physics Experiment Moves Closer to Completion
By Art Chimes
Washington, DC
08 September 2008


The biggest science experiment on Earth is expected to take a big step forward on Wednesday. As we hear from VOA's Art Chimes, an international team of scientists is getting ready to fire up the Large Hadron Collider, even as skeptics fear it could have disastrous consequences.



Technician on work platform inspects the massive CMS detector, which tracks particle collisions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known by its French acronym, CERN, are planning to send a beam of particles racing around the 27-kilometer ring of the Large Hadron Collider for the first time.

The LHC, as it's known, is the world's most powerful particle accelerator. CERN physicist Tejinder Virdee says it's designed to explore some of the most fundamental questions in physics.

"At the end of this, it is possible that our view of nature, of how the nature works at the fundamental level, would be altered in the same way, for example, that Einstein had altered our view of space and time about 100 years ago," he said. "So the scientific results could be extremely important."

The Large Hadron Collider is housed in a circular tunnel, buried under the French-Swiss border just outside Geneva.

Beams of subatomic protons and other particles will zip around the ring, accelerated up to nearly the speed of light by some 1,800 superconducting magnet systems.

Protons will reach an energy level of 7 trillion electron volts, seven times more powerful than in any existing accelerator. The project has cost an estimated $5.8 billion.

When the LHC goes into full operation, scientists will aim beams of particles directly at each other. When particles collide — up to 600 million times a second — special sensors will detect and record the collisions, and a network of computers will analyze the vast amount of data generated.

It's designed in part to mimic conditions present at the beginning of the universe, the Big Bang, almost 15 billion years ago.

Researchers will also be looking for a subatomic particle known as the Higgs Boson. The Standard Model of particle physics predicts that it exists… but it has never been seen. CERN physicist Mike Seymour says the elusive Higgs Boson has a nickname that conveys its importance.

"People call it 'God's particle' because it really has a very important central role in our whole theory of what everything is made of, of matter," Seymour explained. "Because without the Higgs particle we wouldn't be able to understand why any of the elementary particles have masses. The more we discover about the Higgs mechanism, the more we will understand about the dynamics of the early universe."

As scientists and technicians prepare to send a particle beam all the way around the LHC, some critics have wondered whether attempts to reproduce conditions at the beginning of the universe may create a black hole that could destroy the Earth.

A CERN team that studied the matter concluded there was no danger of that happening, and lawsuits filed by opponents have not succeeded in stopping work on the LHC.

CERN physicist John Ellis says simply, the skeptics are wrong. "LHC is only going to reproduce what nature does every second, it has been doing for billions of years, and all of these astronomical bodies including the earth and the sun, they are still here. So there really is no problem."

Well, let's hope not. The first beam of particles is set to make that 27-kilometer trip around the Large Hadron Collider on Wednesday.

If it goes wrong we are doomed, the END of the world, on Wednesday!

 

[Pundit]

The Higgs Bosom will be confirmed, I am beting my shirt on that. In any case it is just a manifestation of the different pertubations of the underlying superstrings, not really a particle but a state of strings, hence the never ending zoo of particles that made Professor Gell-Mann compare particle Physics with botany way back in 1954.

And all apocalyptic doomsdaymongers should remember that a man can never be weighed down by one hair on his head. let's harness and probe the basic power of and nature of nature.

 

[Koba]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJ6PMfnz2E&feature=related[/media]

....acheni uwoga,tunataka kugundua siri ya mungu hapa labda mungu ni sisi wenyewe..if it turns and be a disaster to a human race we'll all disappear hahaha ahaha haha haha,macho na masikio wednesday hapo Swiss!

 

[Invisible]

The ATLAS particle detector at the Center of European Nuclear Research CERN in Geneva on Nov. 24, 2006. Photographer: Adrian Moser/Bloomberg News

A employee works on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accellerator at the Center of European Nuclear Research CERN in Geneva on Nov. 24, 2006. Photographer: Adrian Moser/Bloomberg News

Tunnel where the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accellerator is being built at the Center of European Nuclear Research CERN in Geneva on Nov. 24, 2006. Photographer: Adrian Moser/Bloomberg News






By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS

GENEVA (AP) — Scientists will launch an experiment in a tunnel deep beneath the French-Swiss border Wednesday, hoping to find evidence of extra dimensions, invisible "dark matter," and an elusive particle called the "Higgs boson."

And although leading physicists such as Stephen Hawking say the atom-smashing experiment will be absolutely safe, some skeptics fear the proton collisions could unleash microscopic black holes that would eventually doom the Earth.

The most powerful atom-smasher ever built will produce collisions of protons traveling at nearly the speed of light in the circular tunnel, giving off showers of particles that will provide more clues as to how everything in the universe is made.

In the $10 billion project — the most extensive physics experiment in history — the Large Hadron Collider will come ever closer to re-enacting the "big bang," the theory that a colossal explosion created the cosmos.

The project, organized by the 20 member nations of the European Organization for Nuclear Research — known by its French initials CERN — has attracted researchers of 80 nationalities. Some 1,200 are from the United States, an observer country that contributed $531 million.

The collider is designed to push the proton beam close to the speed of light, moving around the 17-mile tunnel at 11,000 times a second at full power. Ramping up to full power is probably a year away.

Smaller colliders have been used for decades to study the atom. Scientists once thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of an atom's nucleus, but experiments have shown they were made of still smaller quarks and gluons, and that there were other forces and particles.

The CERN experiments could reveal more about "dark matter," antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. It could also find evidence of the hypothetical particle — the Higgs boson — which is sometimes called the "God particle." It is believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.

The two beams of protons will travel in two tubes about the width of fire hoses, speeding through a vacuum that is colder and emptier than outer space. Their trajectory will be curved by supercooled magnets — to guide the beams. The paths of these beams will cross, and a few protons will collide. The two largest detectors — essentially huge digital cameras weighing thousands of tons — are capable of taking millions of snapshots a second.

Some skeptics have said the collisions could result in tiny black holes — subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.

Micro black holes produced by a collider, the critics theorize, would move more slowly and might be trapped inside the Earth's gravitational field — and eventually threaten the planet.

"It's nonsense," said CERN chief spokesman James Gillies.

John Ellis, a British theoretical physicist at CERN, said doomsayers assume that the collider will create micro black holes in the first place, which he called unlikely. And even if they appeared, he said, they would instantly evaporate, as predicted by Hawking.

Gillies told The Associated Press that the most dangerous thing that could happen would be if a beam at full power were to go out of control, and that would only damage the collider itself and burrow into the rock around the tunnel.

"On Wednesday, we start small," Gillies said. "What we're putting in to start with is one single low intensity bunch at low energy and we thread that around. We get experience with low energy things and then we ramp up as we get to know the machine better."

Huge amounts of data will pour in — so big that the lab's computers can't sift through it all. So scientists, who will monitor the experiment at above-ground control centers, have devised a way to share the load among dozens of leading computing centers worldwide.

The result is the "LHC Grid," a network of 60,000 computers to analyze what happens when protons are hurled at each other. That computing power is needed if scientists are to find what they are looking for among the mountains of data.

"You can think of each experiment as a giant digital camera with around 150 million pixels taking snapshots 600 million times a second," said CERN's Ian Bird, who leads the grid project.

Sophisticated filters discard all but the most interesting data, still leaving some 15 petabytes to be analyzed. That's enough to fill 2 million DVDs.

The data will be sent to 11 top research institutions in Europe, North America and Asia, and from there to a wider network of 150 research facilities around the world for scrutiny by thousands of researchers.

Collaborating on such a large project has proved invaluable, said Ruth Pordes, executive director of the Open Science Grid at Fermilab in Chicago. The U.S.-government funded project is among the major contributors to the grid.

"We are doing things that are at the boundaries of science," Pordes said. "But the technologies, the methods and the results will be picked up by industry."

Scientists expect grid computing to become more widely used, for research ranging from new drugs to nuclear energy. Eventually, consumers will start seeing it in daily life to regulate traffic, predict the weather or help a flagging economy.

So even if the LHC experiment doesn't yield answers to the cosmic questions, historians may one day see it as a key step in developing networked computing.

It wouldn't be the first time that has happened at CERN. In 1990, a young British researcher there created a computer-based system for sharing information with colleagues around the world.

He called it the World Wide Web.

Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Scientists tomorrow will take a step closer to understanding the beginning of time when the European Organization for Nuclear Research powers up the world's biggest magnetic loop in the search for the universe's missing matter.

Particle physicists on the outskirts of Geneva are trying to find out what most of the universe is made of, and where it is, because most of the matter created in the ``Big Bang'' 13.7 billion years ago has disappeared. Adding up all the stars, planets, and black holes in the universe only accounts for about 4 percent of all the mass created when time began.

After a decade of work, physicists will fire the first particles around a 27-kilometer (16 mile) long magnetic loop buried 100 meters (328 feet) under ground in a tunnel large enough for subway trains through an environment colder than outer space.

As the particles lap at close to the speed of light some will collide, triggering new particles that may also help scientists understand why the expansion of the universe is accelerating instead of slowing as predicted by theory.

``We may find a whole new family of particles that might account for the missing mass, the `dark matter' that we know must be there,'' says David Evans, a scientist who helped to build some of the electronic equipment that have one-billionth of a second to spot a collision. ``One way or another, there's a 100 percent chance we will find something new to physics.''

The unknown outcome has prompted a challenge at the European Court of Human Rights by chemist Otto Roessler, of the University of Tuebingen in Germany, to try to stop the experiment, claiming the event will create a black hole that will destroy the planet.

World Wide Web

The CERN complex, overlooked by the Jura mountains which rise to 1,720 meters, is where one of CERN's alumni, Tim Berners- Lee, invented the first World Wide Web browser in 1989 to help physicists all over the globe better swap notes. CERN is the French acronym for the nuclear research organization.

While the spin-offs for technologies used in the 6 billion Swiss franc ($5.3 billion) ``Large Hadron Collider'' experiments may not be immediately obvious, applications from other particle physics research include three-dimensional hospital scanners and non-invasive surgery, which will improve as a result of CERN's work, says Evans.

One of CERN'S problems in generating an environment that resembles conditions one thousandth of a millionth of a second after the start of time, and the creation of all the universe's building material, is the volume of data generated by the observations.

Within a year the particle accelerator's four experiments, one of which involves equipment weighing 7,000 metric tons or the equivalent of a subterranean Eiffel Tower, will have spewed enough data to fill a pile of compact discs 12 miles high.

`Dark Energy'

Some of the material that the physicists may find is labeled ``dark energy,'' and may help explain why ``something is still driving the expansion of the universe, but at the moment we have no idea what it is,'' says Evans, who dismisses the risk of earth being swallowed by a black hole.

``Nature already produces far higher-powered particle accelerations and the earth would already have been destroyed if that were possible,'' says Evans. The experiments are ``a once- in-a-lifetime experience, 10-times more powerful than anything anyone has ever built and the first time we know for sure that something new and exciting is going to happen.''

 

[Invisible]

A cyclist passes by the wooden 'Globe' at the entrance of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008. Scientists will fire up the biggest physics experiment in history at CERN Sept. 10, 2008 when they hope to detect evidence of extra dimensions, invisible 'dark matter' and an elusive particle called the Higgs boson.(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

A general view of the island SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron) of the CERN Control Centre (CCC) in Prevessin, France, at the Swiss border near Geneva, where the operators prepare the commissioning of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at the European Particle Physics laboratory (CERN). The first test of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) will take place on Sept. 10, 2008. The purpose of the CERN Control Centre (CCC) is to combine the control rooms of the Laboratory's eight accelerators, as well as the piloting of cryogenics and technical infrastructures. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)


Visitors inside the LHC tunnel.

 

[deny_all]

More information on the links below, as well some people think it is a risk experiment to the earth existence.

http://www.scientificblogging.com/b...ern_in_violation_of_human_rights#comment-4896


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7468966.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4229545.stm

 

[Steve Dii]

.... let's than six hours before LHC is turned on!

 

[Gamba la Nyoka]

Jamani mnafahamu kuhusu mnara wa babeli, na yanayosemekana yalitokea baada ya hapo?. Civilization za zamani zilijaribu kujua siri ya Mungu, lakini biblia inasema hao watu wa mnara wa Babeli kilichowapata ni lugha yao kupotea na hatimaye kuwepo makundi ya lugha nyingi, kiasi kwamba makundi ya watu wakawa hawaelewani.je na hii nayo inaweza kuwa babeli nyingine?

Je hii experiment ikienda out of control haina effect ya bomu la nyuklia?
Je nini effect yake kwa vyombo vya kielectronic na umeme iwapo itafanikiwa au kufeli?
je hii experiment haiwezi kuraise charge ya dunia(earth) na hatimaye kubadili potential (zero p.d) inayosababishwa na dunia na hatimaye kuharibu vifaa vilivyojengwa juu ya misingi ya principle hiyo?

je kwa binadamu na wanyama waliokaribu na eneo hilo iwapo zero potential ya dunia itakuwa raised iwapo hicho kifaa kitaburst na matokeo yake umeme kutiririka kutoka ardhini kwenda kwenye miili, je itakuwaje?

 

[Steve Dii]

Jamani mnafahamu kuhusu mnara wa babeli, na yanayosemekana yalitokea baada ya hapo?. Civilization za zamani zilijaribu kujua siri ya Mungu, lakini biblia inasema hao watu wa mnara wa Babeli kilichowapata ni lugha yao kupotea na hatimaye kuwepo makundi ya lugha nyingi, kiasi kwamba makundi ya watu wakawa hawaelewani.je na hii nayo inaweza kuwa babeli nyingine?

Je hii experiment ikienda out of control haina effect ya bomu la nyuklia?
Je nini effect yake kwa vyombo vya kielectronic na umeme iwapo itafanikiwa au kufeli?
je hii experiment haiwezi kuraise charge ya dunia(earth) na hatimaye kubadili potential (zero p.d) inayosababishwa na dunia na hatimaye kuharibu vifaa vilivyojengwa juu ya misingi ya principle hiyo?

je kwa binadamu na wanyama waliokaribu na eneo hilo iwapo zero potential ya dunia itakuwa raised iwapo hicho kifaa kitaburst na matokeo yake umeme kutiririka kutoka ardhini kwenda kwenye miili, je itakuwaje?

Je hii experiment ikienda out of control haina effect ya bomu la nyuklia?
....Binadamu tumejaliwa kuwa na upeo wa mambo na nia ya kuwa wadadisi wa mambo yanayotuzunguka na yale yaliyombali nasi. Kwa swali lako basi Gamba, ni vyema tutumie upeo huu kujua kama principles zilizotumika kutengeneza hilo bomu la nyuklia zitakuwa sawa na hizi za kugundua ni nini atom inakuwa na uzito. Kumbuka kuwa hilo bomu la nyuklia lilitengenezwa bila kuelewa some of the fundamentals being sought here.

....Kwenye huo mnara wa Babeli, kwanini hawakuandika kisayansi hayo yaliyotokea, ili kutuwezesha kukwepa mengi ambayo hayafai hivi sasa. By the way Gamba la nyoka, hivi mnara wa Babeli siyo hiyo Pizza tower kule Italia?!!!

Je nini effect yake kwa vyombo vya kielectronic na umeme iwapo itafanikiwa au kufeli?

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je hii experiment haiwezi kuraise charge ya dunia(earth) na hatimaye kubadili potential (zero p.d) inayosababishwa na dunia na hatimaye kuharibu vifaa vilivyojengwa juu ya misingi ya principle hiyo?

....vyombo vya kielectronic na umeme vimegunduliwa au kutengenezwa na binadamu kutokana na upeo wake wa kuwa mchunguzi. Hivyo basi kama jaribio hilo linafanikiwa au kufeli bado litakuwa ndani ya majaliwa ya uelewa wa mwanadamu.

....leo hii mtu ukiulizwa gravity inatokana na nini na ni kwa sababu gani, utaishia kujibu kwa kutumia fizikia ambayo principles zake zinategemea majibu ya maswali ambayo yanapelekea jaribio hili lifanyike.

....kingine, hebu fikiria kama tunagundua jinsi ya ku- accelerate radioactive compound decay kutokana na jaribio kama hili? Huoni kuwa tunaweza baada ya miaka michache kujenga nuclear power stations bila kuhofu jinsi tutakavyo angamiza nuclear waste zake?.... Huu miye naamini ni moja ya upeo ambao Mwenyezi Mungu ametujalia, ili tuweze kumudu mazingira yetu wenyewe. Bila majaribio hatuwezi kujua.

je kwa binadamu na wanyama waliokaribu na eneo hilo iwapo zero potential ya dunia itakuwa raised iwapo hicho kifaa kitaburst na matokeo yake umeme kutiririka kutoka ardhini kwenda kwenye miili, je itakuwaje?

...hapa Gamba nitakukumbushia tu uhanga wa Marie Curie na wengineo. Bila uhanga katika majaribio mbalimbali, leo hii tusingekuwa tuna andikiana hapa mtandaoni ndugu yangu!! Let's go explore our universe!

SteveD.

 

[Steve Dii]

First beam to fine tune the collision pathway released. Further adjustment are needed to get 99.9% accuracy... still in fine tuning stages.

 

[Sanda Matuta]

9. sept si ni jana leo bado hamna jipya???

 

[Steve Dii]

...first complete circular adjustment test has completed.
...has been done to check whether parts of the particle accelerator, the LHC including giant magnets are properly working.

...first beams were released at different intervals and captured/blocked in their pathways by special gates so that the pathway the beams would travel in can be fine tuned. Then a beam was released and allowed to complete the circle.

 

[Gamba la Nyoka]

so what is going to be the next phase?

 

[Pundit]

Large Hadron Collider doesn't cause the end of the world - yet
Last Updated: 11:01am BST 10/09/2008



The Earth didn't move, or even twitch. And it certainly didn't end - as you can tell by the fact you are reading this. By Neil Tweedie at CERN

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The Large Hadron Collider, the greatest atom smasher ever created, the world's biggest machine, was switched on today at CERN, the European nuclear research centre outside Geneva. And the result: rather less than earth shattering.

"Five, four, three, two, one, zero - nothing," joked Lyn Evans, leader of the LHC project, before a fuzzy dot appeared on a monitor.

It was 9.30am local time when a stream of protons was introduced into a short stretch of the circular 17-mile underground racetrack, buried in the Jura Mountains on the Franco-Swiss border.

The fuzzy dot registered their arrival, and then - well, not a lot. But to the scientists who have devoted their working lives to the project it was a moment of consummation.

Protons streams were then introduced into more and more of the machine until less than an hour later - far earlier than predicted - a stream whizzed around the entire circumference of the particle accelerator at a shade under the speed of light. The LHC had passed its first crucial landmark.

A host of Jeremiahs have been predicting that the collider, costing £5bn and a quarter of a century in the making, will destroy the world by spawning mini black holes which will sink to the Earth's core before gobbling it up

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The scientists at CERN have dismissed the claim as ill-informed nonsense, and it certainly wasn't going to happen on today's inaugural test run, which did not include the sub-atomic collisions needed to produce an Earth-munching singularity.

Dr Evans, the coal miner's son from Aberdare, south Wales, who grew to lead the LHC project, the biggest thing in so-called Big Science, was so moved by the first completed circuit that he could muster only a few words.

Asked to speak, he said: "I'm too happy to continue." And he left it at that.

advertisementEarlier, he said: "This is really the biggest and most complex scientific project ever undertaken, and you cannot do a thing like this without engineers and applied scientists of very top quality."

Around him in the collider's control room, a few miles outside Geneva, scientists burst into applause.

They will now get a proton beam to travel in the opposite direction before beginning the work of smashing sub-atomic particles together in an effort to discover the greatest question in science: why we came to be.

John Ellis, a British theoretical physicist, who like Dr Evans has devoted most of his career to CERN, said: "I've been here 35 years and this is the culmination of that time. I've just completed a paper on what we might discover with the LHC. It's such an exciting time."

Meanwhile, William Hill celebrated Man's continued existence. It had taken £119 from punters willing to bet that September 10 2008 would see the end of the world.

A spokesman said: "Our standard odds are 1,000,000/1, but anyone wanting longer or shorter odds is at liberty to take them. A number of customers took us up; on our offer and have bet that the world will end as a result of the Large Hadron Collider experiment."

As the doom-mongers would say, there's still time. The LHC will not get going in earnest until the end of the year, when hopefully it will begin to produce data shedding light on the origin of the universe, the dark matter and energy that makes up its bulk and the existence or not of the Higgs boson - an as yet theoretical particle believed to impart mass to other particles.

 

[Sanda Matuta]

So imetokea na hamana la kutisha lolote ila mafanikio.

i found this on yahoo


2 hours, 7 minutes ago



GENEVA - The world's largest particle collider passed its first major tests by firing two beams of protons in opposite directions around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) underground ring Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.

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After a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen at 10:26 a.m. (0826 GMT) indicating that the protons had traveled clockwise along the full length of the 4 billion Swiss franc (US$3.8 billion) Large Hadron Collider - described as the biggest physics experiment in history.

"There it is," project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap.

Champagne corks popped in labs as far away as Chicago, where contributing and competing scientists watched the proceedings by satellite.

Five hours later, scientists successfully fired a beam counterclockwise.

Physicists around the world now have much greater power to smash the components of atoms together in attempts to learn about their structure.

"Well done, everybody," said Robert Aymar, director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, to cheers from the assembled scientists in the collider's control room at the Swiss-French border.

The organization, known by its French acronym CERN, began firing the protons - a type of subatomic particle - around the tunnel in stages less than an hour earlier, with the first beam injection at 9:35 a.m. (0735 GMT).

Eventually two beams will be fired at the same time in opposite directions with the aim of recreating conditions a split second after the big bang, which scientists theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe.

"My first thought was relief," said Evans, who has been working on the project since its inception in 1984. "This is a machine of enormous complexity. Things can go wrong at any time. But this morning has been a great start."

He didn't want to set a date, but said that he expected scientists would be able to conduct collisions for their experiments "within a few months."

The collider is designed to push the proton beam close to the speed of light, whizzing 11,000 times a second around the tunnel.

Scientists hope to eventually send two beams of protons through two tubes about the width of fire hoses, speeding through a vacuum that is colder and emptier than outer space. The paths of these beams will cross, and a few protons will collide. The collider's two largest detectors - essentially huge digital cameras weighing thousands of tons - are capable of taking millions of snapshots a second.

The CERN experiments could reveal more about "dark matter," antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. It could also find evidence of the hypothetical particle - the Higgs boson - which is sometimes called the "God particle" because it is believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.

The supercooled magnets that guide the proton beam heated slightly in the morning's first test, leading to a pause to recool them before trying the opposite direction.

The start of the collider came over the objections of some who feared the collision of protons could eventually imperil the Earth by creating micro-black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.

"It's nonsense," said James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN.

CERN was backed by leading scientists like Britain's Stephen Hawking , who declared the experiments to be absolutely safe.

Gillies told the AP that the most dangerous thing that could happen would be if a beam at full power were to go out of control, and that would only damage the accelerator itself and burrow into the rock around the tunnel.

Nothing of the sort occurred Wednesday, though the accelerator is still probably a year away from full power.

The project organized by the 20 European member nations of CERN has attracted researchers from 80 nations. Some 1,200 are from the United States, an observer country that contributed US$531 million. Japan, another observer, also is a major contributor.

Some scientists have been waiting for 20 years to use the LHC.

The complexity of manufacturing it required groundbreaking advances in the use of supercooled, superconducting equipment. The 2001 start and 2005 completion dates were pushed back by two years each, and the cost of the construction was 25 percent higher than originally budgeted in 1996, Luciano Maiani, who was CERN director-general at the time, told The Associated Press.

Maiani and the other three living former directors-general attended the launch Wednesday.

Smaller colliders have been used for decades to study the makeup of the atom. Less than 100 years ago scientists thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of an atom's nucleus, but in stages since then experiments have shown they were made of still smaller quarks and gluons and that there were other forces and particles.

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On the Net:

 

[Sanda Matuta]

So imetokea na hamana la kutisha lolote ila mafanikio.

i found this on yahoo


2 hours, 7 minutes ago



GENEVA - The world's largest particle collider passed its first major tests by firing two beams of protons in opposite directions around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) underground ring Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.

ADVERTISEMENT

After a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen at 10:26 a.m. (0826 GMT) indicating that the protons had traveled clockwise along the full length of the 4 billion Swiss franc (US$3.8 billion) Large Hadron Collider — described as the biggest physics experiment in history.

"There it is," project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap.

Champagne corks popped in labs as far away as Chicago, where contributing and competing scientists watched the proceedings by satellite.

Five hours later, scientists successfully fired a beam counterclockwise.

Physicists around the world now have much greater power to smash the components of atoms together in attempts to learn about their structure.

"Well done, everybody," said Robert Aymar, director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, to cheers from the assembled scientists in the collider's control room at the Swiss-French border.

The organization, known by its French acronym CERN, began firing the protons — a type of subatomic particle — around the tunnel in stages less than an hour earlier, with the first beam injection at 9:35 a.m. (0735 GMT).

Eventually two beams will be fired at the same time in opposite directions with the aim of recreating conditions a split second after the big bang, which scientists theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe.

"My first thought was relief," said Evans, who has been working on the project since its inception in 1984. "This is a machine of enormous complexity. Things can go wrong at any time. But this morning has been a great start."

He didn't want to set a date, but said that he expected scientists would be able to conduct collisions for their experiments "within a few months."

The collider is designed to push the proton beam close to the speed of light, whizzing 11,000 times a second around the tunnel.

Scientists hope to eventually send two beams of protons through two tubes about the width of fire hoses, speeding through a vacuum that is colder and emptier than outer space. The paths of these beams will cross, and a few protons will collide. The collider's two largest detectors — essentially huge digital cameras weighing thousands of tons — are capable of taking millions of snapshots a second.

The CERN experiments could reveal more about "dark matter," antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. It could also find evidence of the hypothetical particle — the Higgs boson — which is sometimes called the "God particle" because it is believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.

The supercooled magnets that guide the proton beam heated slightly in the morning's first test, leading to a pause to recool them before trying the opposite direction.

The start of the collider came over the objections of some who feared the collision of protons could eventually imperil the Earth by creating micro-black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.

"It's nonsense," said James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN.

CERN was backed by leading scientists like Britain's Stephen Hawking , who declared the experiments to be absolutely safe.

Gillies told the AP that the most dangerous thing that could happen would be if a beam at full power were to go out of control, and that would only damage the accelerator itself and burrow into the rock around the tunnel.

Nothing of the sort occurred Wednesday, though the accelerator is still probably a year away from full power.

The project organized by the 20 European member nations of CERN has attracted researchers from 80 nations. Some 1,200 are from the United States, an observer country that contributed US$531 million. Japan, another observer, also is a major contributor.

Some scientists have been waiting for 20 years to use the LHC.

The complexity of manufacturing it required groundbreaking advances in the use of supercooled, superconducting equipment. The 2001 start and 2005 completion dates were pushed back by two years each, and the cost of the construction was 25 percent higher than originally budgeted in 1996, Luciano Maiani, who was CERN director-general at the time, told The Associated Press.

Maiani and the other three living former directors-general attended the launch Wednesday.

Smaller colliders have been used for decades to study the makeup of the atom. Less than 100 years ago scientists thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of an atom's nucleus, but in stages since then experiments have shown they were made of still smaller quarks and gluons and that there were other forces and particles.

___

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[MiratKad]

Large Hadron Collider doesn't cause the end of the world - yet
Last Updated: 11:01am BST 10/09/2008
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John Ellis, a British theoretical physicist, who like Dr Evans has devoted most of his career to CERN, said: "I've been here 35 years and this is the culmination of that time. I've just completed a paper on what we might discover with the LHC. It's such an exciting time."

Meanwhile, William Hill celebrated Man's continued existence. It had taken £119 from punters willing to bet that September 10 2008 would see the end of the world.

A spokesman said: "Our standard odds are 1,000,000/1, but anyone wanting longer or shorter odds is at liberty to take them. A number of customers took us up; on our offer and have bet that the world will end as a result of the Large Hadron Collider experiment."

As the doom-mongers would say, there's still time. The LHC will not get going in earnest until the end of the year, when hopefully it will begin to produce data shedding light on the origin of the universe, the dark matter and energy that makes up its bulk and the existence or not of the Higgs boson - an as yet theoretical particle believed to impart mass to other particles.

Who can actually be so daft to put money on this, How would you enjoy it?

 

[Sanda Matuta]

Transformer glitch shuts down biggest atom smasher

By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 18, 5:18 PM ET

GENEVA - The world's largest particle collider malfunctioned within hours of its launch to great fanfare, but its operator didn't report the problem for a week.
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In a statement Thursday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research reported for the first time that a 30-ton transformer that cools part of the collider broke, forcing physicists to stop using the atom smasher just a day after starting it up last week.

The faulty transformer has been replaced and the ring in the 17-mile circular tunnel under the Swiss-French border has been cooled back down to near zero on the Kelvin scale - minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit - the most efficient operating temperature, said a statement by CERN, as the organization is known.

When the transformer malfunctioned, operating temperatures rose from below 2 Kelvin to 4.5 Kelvin - extraordinarily cold by most standards, but warmer than the normal operating temperature.

CERN had not reported any problems with the project since its launch Sept. 10, but issued its statement shortly after The Associated Press called asking about rumors of troubles.

Physicists said it wasn't surprising problems would occur in getting a huge and immensely complicated collection of equipment like the Large Hadron Collider up and running smoothly.

"This is arguably the largest machine built by humankind, is incredibly complex, and involves components of varying ages and origins, so I'm not at all surprised to hear of some glitches," Steve Giddings, physics professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. "It's a real challenge requiring incredible talent, brain power and coordination to get it running."

Judith Jackson, spokesman for the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., echoed that view.

"We know how complex and extraordinary it is to start up one of these machines. No one's built one of these before and in the process of starting it up there will inevitably be glitches," she said.

Fermilab is home to the Tevatron, an accelerator that collides protons and antiprotons in a 4-mile-long underground ring to allow physicists to study subatomic particles. Jackson said transformer malfunctions can be common and aren't dangerous.

"These things happen," she said. "It's a little setback and it sounds like they've dealt with it and are moving forward."

The Large Hadron Collider is designed to collide protons in the beams so that they shatter and reveal more about the makeup of matter and the universe.

After it was started up Sept. 10, scientists circled a beam of protons in a clockwise direction at the speed of light. They shut that down, then turned on a counterclockwise beam.

"Several hundred orbits" were made, CERN's statement said.

On the evening of Sept. 11, scientists had succeeded in controlling the counterclockwise beam with equipment that keeps the protons in the tightly bunched stream that will be needed for collisions, but then the transformer failed and the system was shut down, the statement said.

The clockwise beam was not on at the time. Now that the transformer has been replaced and the equipment rechilled, scientists expect to try soon to tighten the clockwise beam and prepare experiments in coming weeks, the statement said.

Before the problem occurred, scientists had said it would probably be several weeks before the first significant collisions were attempted.