Today is Wednesday, September 10, 2008. Busy day from morning and I was having meeting with Tabala Guru Shree Diviyang Vakil. Back to office and now at 10-00 pm I m reading this news and I like to share here. Its all around talk of town that today is end of world? Read it below.
Scientists from around eighty countries have switched on the most powerful particle accelerator ever built in an attempt to answer some of the biggest unanswered questions about the universe.
The two billion dollar Large Hadron Collider project conducted by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research could help scientists explain mass, gravity, and the mysterious 'dark matter' that fills much of the universe.
Around 200 of the 2,000 scientists doing the experiment are from India.
While no one knows what to expect yet, some researchers have raised concerns saying that the experiment may trigger natural calamities eventually leading to the end of the world.
What's the point of the CERN experiment?
What's the point of the huge CERN experiment is a question non-scientists and some scientists across the world are asking. At one level it's said to be a massive exercise in curiosity because the scientists themselves say they are not sure what they hope to find, not even the questions they should be asking.
What scientists hope to really achieve is create matter. They believe that by re-creating the beginning of the universe they may also create matter as it was created when the universe formed.
The scientific name of the basic particle is Higgs Boson named after Scottish scientist Peter Higgs. But the particle is more commonly called the God Particle since it is considered to be the key to the creation of the universe and it is this key that the scientists hope to re-create.
There have been concerns that the experiment could create anti-matter or black holes but scientists say they are unfounded.
Scientists also hope that the particle will explain gravity, something the current theories of Physics have not explained completely so far.
They are recreating the conditions just before the universe was formed in a large collider which has been cooled to minus 271 degrees centigrade and particles will be made to collide at nearly the speed of light.
The experiment is being conducted in a 27 kilometre long tunnel, 80 metres below the earth's surface. With the experiment, scientists say theoretical Physics is bracing itself for a revolution. The results from the experiment will help scientists see what lies beyond current theories.
ref: ndtv
1 comment:
Many said it's near. End of the world is near. That's what they said. I dont just imagine how will that be?
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