Many ordinary people of the world are asking themselves the question of why there is the Large Hadron Collider.Incomprehensible to most research, which spent many billions of euros, causing suspicion and fear.
Maybe it is not research at all, but a prototype time machine or a portal to teleport alien creatures that can change the fate of mankind?Most fantastic rumors and terrible.In this article we try to understand what the LHC and for which it was created.
ambitious project mankind
Large Hadron Collider is today the most powerful particle accelerator in the world.It is on the border of Switzerland and France.More precisely under it: at a depth of 100 meters lies the accelerator ring tunnel length of almost 27 kilometers.Boss experimental range value exceeding $ 10 billion, is the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
huge amount of resources and thousands of nuclear physicists are committed to accelerate protons and heavy ions lead to a speed close to light in different directions, and then confronted them with each other.Direct interaction scrutinized.
proposal to create a new particle accelerator came back in 1984.Ten years were various discussions about what will exhibit Hadron Collider, is why do we need such a large-scale research project.Only after the discussion of the features of the technical solution and the required installation parameters project was approved.Construction began only in 2001, highlighting its location for underground communications of the former particle accelerator - the Large Electron-Positron collider.
Why do we need the Large Hadron Collider
interactions of elementary particles is described in different ways.Relativity theory collides with quantum field theory.The missing link to finding a common approach to the structure of elementary particles is the inability to create a theory of quantum gravity.That's why you need a high-power Hadron Collider.
total collision energy of the particles is 14 teraelectronvolt, which makes the device much more powerful accelerators than any existing in the world today.Experiments previously impossible for technical reasons, scientists are more likely to be able to document or refute existing theories microcosm.
study of the quark-gluon plasma formed by collisions of lead nuclei will help to build a more complete theory of the strong interactions, which could radically change the methods of nuclear physics and knowledge of the starry space.
Higgs boson
Back in 1960 the Scottish physicist Peter Higgs developed the theory of the Higgs field, according to which the particles are falling in this field are subject to quantum effects of that in the physical world can be observed as the mass of the object.
If in the course of the experiments will be able to confirm the theory of the Scottish nuclear physics and find boson (photon) Higgs, the event could become a new starting point for the development of the world's population.
And new opportunities human control gravity, outweigh any visible prospects for the development of technological progress.All the more so advanced scientists are more interested in not the very existence of the Higgs boson, and the process of electroweak symmetry breaking.
How it works
to experimental particle reached incredible speed for the surface, almost equal to the speed of light in vacuum, they gradually dispersed, each time increasing energy.
first linear accelerators are doing the injection of protons and lead ions, which are subjected to stepwise after acceleration.The particles fall through the booster in the Proton Synchrotron, where they receive a charge of 28 GeV.
In the next phase particles enter the super-synchrotron, where the energy of the charge is brought up to 450 GeV.Reaching these indicators, the particles fall into the many kilometers of the main ring, where in specially arranged places collision detectors capture the moment of impact in detail.
Besides detectors can record all processes in the collision, to keep the proton bunches in the accelerator used magnets in 1625, having superconductivity.Their total length exceeds 22 kilometers.Special cryogenic chamber to achieve the effect maintains the temperature of superconductivity -271 ° C.The cost of each of the magnet is estimated at one million euros.
end justifies the means
to carry out such ambitious experiments and built the most powerful Hadron Collider.Why is a multi-billion dollar research project, talk to humanity with undisguised delight many scientists.However, in the case of new scientific discoveries, most likely, they will be reliably classified.
Even we can say for sure.Proof to this is the whole history of civilization.When the wheel is invented, there were chariots.Mankind has mastered metallurgy - Hello, cannons and guns!
all the latest developments now become the property of the military-industrial complexes of the developed countries, but not all of humanity.When scientists learned how to split the atom, which came first?Nuclear reactors that provide electricity, however, after hundreds of thousands of deaths in Japan.The inhabitants of Hiroshima were clearly against scientific progress which has taken away from them and their children tomorrow.
Technical development makes a mockery of the people, because the people in it will soon become the weakest link.According to the theory of evolution, the system evolves and grows stronger, getting rid of weaknesses.It may happen in the near future so that we will be no place in the world of engineering excellence.So the question "why do we need the Large Hadron Collider is now" in fact - not idle curiosity, for prompting fears for the fate of all mankind.
Questions that do not meet the
Why do we need the Large Hadron Collider, the world if millions die of hunger and incurable, and sometimes curable diseases?Did he help fight this evil?Why do we need humanity Hadron Collider, which with all the development of technology has been a hundred years can not learn how to successfully fight cancer?Or maybe just have an expensive medical services is more profitable than to find a way to heal?With the current world order and ethical development of only a handful of representatives of the human race is very much needed the Large Hadron Collider.Why does he need the entire population of the planet, the leading non-stop battle for the right to live in a world free from encroachments on one's life and health?History is silent about it ...
Fears scientific colleagues
There are other members of the scientific environment, to express serious concerns about the safety of the project.Chances are that the scientific world in their experiments, because of their limitations in knowledge, could lose control over the processes that did not even studied.
This approach resembles the laboratory experiments of young chemists - all to mix and see what happens.The latest example can result in an explosion in the laboratory.And if such "success" will suffer Hadron Collider?
Why use unnecessary risk earthlings, especially because the experimenters can not say with absolute certainty that the processes of particle collisions, leading to the formation temperatures in excess of 100 thousand times the temperature of our star, will not cause a chain reaction in all matter of the planet ?!Or just cause nuclear chain reaction that could fatally damage the rest in the mountains of Switzerland and the French Riviera ...
Information dictatorship
alarming that the voices of scientists and truly versed in nuclear physics, people simply isolated from the public.Media pass by without even trying to cover the issue from this point of view.
What is the Large Hadron Collider, a time when humanity can not solve the less complex tasks?Trying to silence alternative opinion only confirms the possibility of the unpredictability of events.
probably where people first appeared, and it was laid this dual feature - to do good and to harm themselves simultaneously.Perhaps we will answer discoveries that give Hadron Collider?Why need this risky experiment, we will have to solve our descendants.
