the "God Machine" time zero recreated the universe Ensure that opens a new era for science. He colliding particles at a unprecedented power. And reproduced the conditions of the universe when the Big Bang occurred. Is a key step to study the matter and find out why the world is as we see it. By: Victoria De Masi
The Cosmos, the black giant plagued by questions, began yesterday to give clues about its origin, when he was just a millionth of a millionth of a second. Was at 8.10 hours in Argentina, with the emulation of Big Bang in a machine. How? Yes, science played the first moment of the universe through "God's machine", the largest accelerator, the more complex and able to explain what are the laws governing the functioning of outer space. When protons collided with each other at the speed of light, there was applause and shouts throughout the world. And here, a lot of emotion on the part of local scientists who participated in the project and followed the collision on the Internet.
The Large Hadron Collider-LHC, as the acronym-is 27 kilometers in circumference, costing U.S. $ 6,000 million and its realization sued 20 years. It is considered the largest scientific experiment in history as an instrument capable of colliding protons at an energy of 7 TeV (tera), as happened yesterday. This force is almost the same as that calculated was present in the first moments that followed the big bang that would have given birth to the Universe.
What benefits will bring to mankind? "Studying the elements of matter and understand how the universe was a split second after the Big Bang, And of course, to help the general culture of men", listed ClarÃn Piegaio Ricardo, one of the leaders of the group nine scientists from the Argentine Capital and La Plata who served in the experiment in colliding protons.
These data on the subject will help to know why the universe is as we see and find new particles whose existence is suspected. One of these is a missing link in the theory known as Higgs boson, commonly called "the God particle." The next step is to gather information for 18 or 24 months, with a halt later this year will aim to draw the first conclusions.
"What happened this morning was wonderful, a new era for science. The particle collisions occurred at record speed, 3.5 times more than the last experiment, and achieved about 30 collisions per second. But goal is to reach the 40 million collisions at the same time, "said Piegaio. The time colliding particles is key: "The more collisions we have, the more likely event study unknown ", provided the scientist.
addition to the inconvenience that the machine of God had to overcome to become operational (see" start revenge yesterday ..."), experiments were stopped by a mechanical failure. According to CERN reported an electrical malfunction triggered the protective mechanism by which the accelerated particles are removed automatically from the accelerator ring. During that time, anxiety filled the 2,000 scientists from 34 countries and 170 universities participating in the project. Some of them, as the Argentines could not be at CERN but managed to see the collision in real time over the Web. In La Plata, and like their colleagues around the world, Maria Teresa Dova, Physics of the University of La Plata, spent the late night CERN interconnected with the pending clash occurred with colleagues and Fernando Martin Tripp Monticelli.
But in Geneva, the collision of protons was provided with champagne. "It's very emotional, a great time for science" relied on the verge of tears the director general of CERN, Rolf Heuer, in a videoconference from Japan. 31,03,10 clarion
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