I've been pretty interested in this thing and have read a shitload about it, so ask away! I can't guarantee my answers will be accurate but who knows!
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I've been pretty interested in this thing and have read a shitload about it, so ask away! I can't guarantee my answers will be accurate but who knows!
I've also been pretty interested about it as well, but unfortunately I've also read up a lot about it lol.
How about we just discuss it instead.
So how about that god particle huh?
Do you think they'll find the evidence of it?
How will this change how we view physics do you think.
What hadronic reactions are likely to produce supersymmetric pairs at the electroweak energy scale?
Ok well yeah I can't answer that. I just read about it and the vague description of what it is doing.
I'm studying computing not physics.
Oh that's okay, I'm sure Rick Scarf will be able to answer the question because he's an expert on it.
Everything you need to know about the LHC can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
Watch it from the webcam
Link
This reminds me of the "Physics Sing Along" that they have at every American Physical Society March Meeting.Quote:
Originally Posted by solecistic
I can proudly say I never have attended a single one, but I have seen some of the songs they sing, and they make me want to destroy whatever part of my brain is responsible for giving me the ability to sing and hear melodies.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-RhgQuote:
Originally Posted by sycld
Did the CERN team actually do that cos that would be hysterical.Quote:
Originally Posted by solecistic
It's the end of the world.
That's math, not physics.Quote:
Originally Posted by mutton
Here's the real horror that is the APS Sing-A-Long *cringe*
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=vXHw8nTbMBc
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=YQxwHc...eature=related
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lFenGkzg89Y
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx1np0...eature=related
Oh and look at the people in the audience. In the last URL, there's one guy scratching his chin while he's singing like he's listening to a lecture or something.
Well, I think the "God particle" thing is a little bit much - it was probably mentioned once and the papers ran with it because it sounds so awesome. Really, the higgs bosons (there could be more than one type) are just what they think give particles mass and why a proton weighs so much more (like 1000x) than an electron. I am not sure if they will find evidence for it, but I think they will find evidence of SOMETHING, to at least either confirm the Standard Model or to let us know we need to be looking for a different answer. The Standard Model is very messy and one would think the theory of everything would be a lot prettier and require less patching up - we're definitely missing something, we just don't know what yet. Hopefully we will find something unlike anything we were looking for, as we could learn so much more if we only knew what direction we needed to focus on.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShitFace
I am not a particle physicist nor a theorist. But since I am wrong and you are being a smart ass, maybe you should just google it, it seems that question is answered many times over - What hadronic reactions are likely to produce supersymmetric pairs at the electroweak energy scale? - Google SearchQuote:
Originally Posted by sycld
It would seem we haven't yet been able to experimentally prove supersymmetry, so that shows our model is likely broken and hopefully the higher energies archived in the LHC collisions should clear that up because it has enough power to make them happen if they ever will. SUSY is a whore sometimes like that. As far as I can tell from googling, it should appear at a low energy level with a quark or boson.
Yes it was made by a young lady that works there, in her free time. They laid down an acapella rap and she set it to music and video afterwards. Those are all real people that work in CERN that are featured in the video. Most of the community likes the video, but some of the old codgers don't like it because it dumbs down the science too much.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShitFace
Why does it need a month to warm up, can't they liek throw in a couple of heaters to speed things up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick Scarf
Doesn't matter now anyway really does it? It's broken till like next spring or something.
Since it operates at about 2 degrees above absolute zero, it takes time to warm it up so people can get in there to fix it, and time to cool it down to operational temperatures. You're talking about a 27km circle here, so yes it takes a couple months to make those temperature changes.
They shut it down for the winter because the rest of the country has higher needs for power, and run it in the summers when there is plenty of energy. (I think it's run off of France's extra nuclear power, so if it wasn't using that extra energy it would've just gone to waste anyway). So by the time they would get it back down cold enough, it would be time to shut it down for the winter anyway. They might be able to get it back online long enough to run some more tests but I very much doubt that they will be any collisions happening until next summer.
Hawking Radiation t/f?
True, I wasn't aware there was much dispute about it. Without HR, the belief in blackhole wouldn't be as solid as it is. They are pretty much accepted commonplace science now, but 20 years ago it was just science fiction.
From what I understand it is still unproven.
Higgs Boson, sounds like the name was taken straight from Pugwash.
Well leaving aside the difficulty in "proving" scientific theories, Hawking Radiation is pretty much solid science - it's directly implied by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOriginalGrumpySpy