If you build it...

[Trooper110]

symmetry breaking Free online: Full documentation for the Large Hadron Collider

Ok, who's in??

[Duke{CLR}]

I wonder if this is the same thing thats out on Long Island.

Many years ago when I was flying to Islip a captain pointed out this larger circle on the ground and told me that it was a "Collider"

[jeffro74]

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[Rand{CLR}]

I wonder if this is the same thing thats out on Long Island.

Many years ago when I was flying to Islip a captain pointed out this larger circle on the ground and told me that it was a "Collider"

Essentially, yeah. Only a heck of a lot bigger and more powerful. I remember when people thought the one on Long Island would crack a hole in existence. Can't wait to see when the Euro one goes off.

-Rand

[Devilguns]

http://www.bnl.gov/cad/

Yeah the atom smasher at Brookhaven National Lab was supposed to be bigger. It was even supposed to pass underneath the the long Island expressway, but never went through for some reason. They have some really good tours over there, a real geekfest.

[Duke{CLR}]

Essentially, yeah. Only a heck of a lot bigger and more powerful. I remember when people thought the one on Long Island would crack a hole in existence. Can't wait to see when the Euro one goes off.

-Rand

I'm sure it will as devastating as Y2K.

[Trooper110]

*sings* It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine! */sings*

[WalkinTarget]

That's great, its starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes and aeeroplanes, Lenny Bruce is not afraid ..

[{CLR} Naillik]

I've read alot about it, but I don't see the purpose of it.. lol
Whats it supposed to do/find?

[Sirex]

One of the major scientific goals of the LHC and ATLAS is discovery of the Higgs boson. This particle is predicted by the Standard Model, and it is the only particle predicted by this theory which has not yet been observed. Interaction with the Higgs boson is how the other elementary particles (such as the quarks and electrons) acquire mass, so the Higgs is a very important particle in the theory. If the Higgs particle as predicted by the Standard Model exists, it will be observed at the LHC.

Besides finding the elusive Higgs, there are many other open scientific questions that the LHC hopes to probe. The current theoretical description of the elementary particles and their interactions (the Standard Model) has been tested extensively at other collider experiments. But there is much theoretical motivation to suggest that the Standard Model is not complete. Gravity for example is not incorporated into the Standard Model. There are large corrections applied to the particle masses in order for the theory to agree with nature. Several new theories have been proposed to address these open issues. In the theory of Supersymmetry (SUSY), a new symmetry is introduced which relates the known elementary particles to a 'superpartner'. The introduction of the superpartner naturally corrects the particle masses. The existance of SUSY is also predicted in many string theories.

ie, they are looking for the thing that makes thing solid!

[Skud]

Hey!

I've got some land up north, think we could all chip in and build one on it?...maybe throw some pop cans and mice into it and see what happens?