LHC breaks own record, could find Sparticles, not Sparticus.

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The Large Hadron Collider set a new record for the creation of energetic particle beams this past week. The particle accelerator, which surpassed Fermilab’s Tevatron in December, smashed its own record, charging particles to 3.48 trillion electron volts, or three times the energy of any beam ever created by human beings and just under half the LHC’s proposed maximum capabilities.


“Getting the beams to 3.5 TeV is testimony to the soundness of the LHC’s overall design, and the improvements we’ve made since the breakdown in September 2008,” said CERN’s Director for Accelerators and Technology Steve Myers in a press release. “And it’s a great credit to the patience and dedication of the LHC team.”

At full throttle, the LHC could provide scientists with new insights into the nature of mass, dark matter and the origins of the universe. But many of them hope that instead of confirming string theory, dark energy, the Higgs-Boson, etc. — something entirely unexpected will emerge from the CERN-run experiment, for example the detection of certain types of supersymmetric particles, that could be seen as what physicist Michio Kaku calls, “signals from the 11th dimension.”

the detection of certain types of supersymmetric particles, aka sparticles, could be seen as what physicist Michio Kaku calls, “signals from the 11th dimension.”
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Continued over at Wired

Exciting stuff even though it's due to undergo further maintenance soon especially if it does help find "Sparticles" :p
 
Sparticles... You do realise it'll find a Black Hole first.

You can also bet your bottom dollar that Professor Brian Cox will be there declaring it to be 'brilliant', moments before getting sucked in to it.
 
Oh please, it's not going to make a black hole.

What i want to know is if it could at some point be converted into a fusion generator. All you need is the superheated plasma and you're good to go, are you not?
 
Superewza said:
Oh please, it's not going to make a black hole.

What i want to know is if it could at some point be converted into a fusion generator. All you need is the superheated plasma and you're good to go, are you not?
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I thought they fully expected Black Holes to be a possible outcome of such high energy collisions, it's just that they'll be so small they'll evaporate almost they form?
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
I thought they fully expected Black Holes to be a possible outcome of such high energy collisions, it's just that they'll be so small they'll evaporate almost they form?
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Indeed, they'll collapse on themselves before they're even formed basically..

I love the thing, wish I was over there
 
Superewza said:
Well...



http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHc/Safety-en.html
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The continuation of that same paragraph:

There are, however, some speculative theories that predict the production of such particles at the LHC. All these theories predict that these particles would disintegrate immediately. Black holes, therefore, would have no time to start accreting matter and to cause macroscopic effects.
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Which was the idea I was talking about, that they theorise that such things could happen but that the black holes just wouldn't be around long enough to cause any effect.

Though I admit I was a wee bit too definite when I said "fully expected".

Ultimately I don't really understand the hard science behind it, this is just my understanding from reading the various articles concerning the LHC so am open to correction.
 
Superewza said:
Oh please, it's not going to make a black hole.

What i want to know is if it could at some point be converted into a fusion generator. All you need is the superheated plasma and you're good to go, are you not?
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Say what you like. That shiny machine's got 'doomsday' written all over it.

Loving the webcam. :D
 
Superewza said:
Oh please, it's not going to make a black hole.

What i want to know is if it could at some point be converted into a fusion generator. All you need is the superheated plasma and you're good to go, are you not?
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The problem isn't building a fusion reactor.

The problems are building one that generates more energy than it uses and building one that can sustain fusion. The best custom-built fusion reactors can't do either, so why would a converted LHC be any better?
 
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