The Large Hadron Collider went online today and the world didn't end. However, no actual collisions took place today and from my understanding the scientists won't be colliding protons into each other until a couple of weeks from now. So, enjoy the last days.
Anyway, I've read a lot of articles here and there, trying to grasp what it is this collider does and what sort of information scientests hope to glean from such an outlandish experiment. I've retained little. No surprise there, but I did find this video fascinating. If you can get beyond the narrator's accent, you'll learn quite a bit about the experiment.
Here are the numbers that are most fascinating to me:
The collider has a circumference of 27 kilometers or 17 miles-ish.
When the protons reach the maximum speed in the collider they will be traveling at 99.9999997% of the speed of light (or something like that). That means they will be making over 11,000 revolutions in that collider in one second. That is truly mind boggling.
The video:
1 comment:
yeah, ive been pretty intrigued by this whole thing. i wonder what will happen. nobody knows. thats the crazy part. nobody knows. Lost got their dharma initiative logo from the thing....thats pretty cool
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