LHC researchers 'set to create a mini-Big Bang'


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Since 2009, the world's highest-energy particle accelerator has been smashing together protons, in a bid to shed light on the fundamental nature of matter.

But now the huge machine will be colliding lead ions instead.

The experiments are planned for early November and will run for four weeks.

The LHC is housed in a 27km-long tunnel on the Franco-Swiss border and is managed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern).

The collider consists of four different experiments and one of them, ALICE, has been specifically designed to smash together lead ions.

The goal of these collisions is to investigate what the infant Universe looked like. Colliding protons at high energies was aimed at other aspects of physics, such as finding the elusive Higgs boson particle and signs of new physical laws, such as a framework called supersymmetry.

Cern's spokesman James Gillies told BBC News that besides ALICE, the ATLAS and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiments will also be temporarily colliding ions.

He said the tests could provide an insight into the conditions of the Universe some 13.7 billion years ago, just after the Big Bang.

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It would be cool if they could find the Higgs boson particle.

Would also be really interesting if they can't find it, or rule it out :) Looking forward to the results!

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If it goes horribly wrong I'll try to post something here before the black hole swallows me up, letting you all know that we're screwed.

If you don't get time we can always check this. :p

But seriously I can’t wait for this!

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they need to AMP up the power..

else we wont see much..

looking for something that is probable is one thing. Finding something you arent looking for is different. I think there is much more to these particles then we know. We need a new model of physics.

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they need to AMP up the power..

else we wont see much..

looking for something that is probable is one thing. Finding something you arent looking for is different. I think there is much more to these particles then we know. We need a new model of physics.

The LHC is not running at even half the power it's built to run at. Patience padawan...

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The LHC is not running at even half the power it's built to run at. Patience padawan...

Yup. Thats why i said AMP UP! :p

cant wait for discoveries..

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so the stable collision pictures are out..

and i noticed that the data in the pics show the power at 2.75 i think..

but in the articles its 3.5

so i think they will power it up in the next few days or so. but they are working pretty fast.

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