What is the Large Hadron Collider?

The Large Hadron Collider, also known in short as LHC, is the world’s biggest and highest energy particle accelerator. The intended purpose is to collide opposing particle beams of protons or lead nuclei. Scientists hope that this will allow them understand the deepest laws of nature which have been blocked from being studied.

Why have the LHC?

The high-energy collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider will create the conditions that governed the moments just after the Big Bang once again for our observation. Physicists predict that the collisions might create particles, even if only for a tiny instant, that have never been observed: they are the missing links of modern physics and the reason why progress in the field has come to a halt.

Where is the Large Hadron Collider?

The LHC is located in Geneva,Switzerland and was created thanks to the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The Large Hadron Collider lies 175m beneath the France and Swiss border and is located inside a tunnel 22km long.

What’s special about the Large Hadron Collider?

It is the world’s largest machine and the most expensive experiment in the history of humankind. It was predicted that it might lead to the creation of small black holes.

Large Hadron Collider Cost?

The total costs of the LHC project is estimated to be around 4.6 billion Swiss francs (or 3 Billion Euros) for the accelerator and around 1.1 billion Swiss francs (or 700 million Euros) for the CERN contribution to the experiments. It was funded and built with the contributions of 10′s of thousands of scientists and engineers from around the world as well as laboratories and universities.

Large Hadron Collider problems?

There have been many problems and accidents recorded for the Large Hadron Collider including delays, accidents, and even deaths.

Large Hadron Collider Result?

It will take around a year before enough data is collected to draw meaningful results. The speed of particles colliding will slowly be increased until it reaches 7 TeV per beam. At this speed the true potential of the machine will be reached.There is a proposed upgrade to the LHC called Super LHC which will increase the luminosity and hence the speed of the beam current.

Large Hadron Collider in Pop Culture?

The Large Hadron Collider has been a hot topic of discussion in the past year or and has receive wide attention from all sorts of media and news outlets. One of the most popular references to the LHC was in Dan Brown’s book Angels and Demons and the subsequent Tom Hanks movie by the same name. It has also features in TV series, comic books, games, and other novels. Many news outlets claimhalf-joked before the experiments began that the Large Hadron Collider could result in doomsday or the end of the world. Others have entertained the idea that the LHC will open a black hole big enough that time travelers from the future may enter.
In fact the Large hadron Collider is safe and won’t threaten human existence like some have claimed.

This has been an introduction post into the Large Hadron Collider and more LHC news, developments and updates will be available as they happen.