Large Hadron Collider – Live!

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Rath said:

finalrpgfantasy said:

highwaystar101 said:

finalrpgfantasy said:
it would be awesome to see that inside of that thing.

Yay! Someone took interest.

 

I know, I think I would give almost anything to visit. Last year my girlfriend lived with a physics student who got to visit it. I was extremely jealous.

i have a question, what is the purpose of the hadron collider? i heard it was to discover the origin of the universe, right?

Several experiments are going on (four I believe) but the biggest purpose is probably finding the Higgs Boson which gives mass to particles. Finding it would help confirm that our current model of the universe is correct accurate.

Fixed.  It may sound like semantics, but until we understand why things happen and not just how they happen I don't think it'd be proper to call the model correct. 

@topic: It's an exciting day for science.  As a physics student I still get excited over successful shuttle launches, probe landings, etc... and this is the biggest event fo several years, likely not to be surpassed until either ITER goes online, or NASA is actuallly allowed to develop a new launch system to completion, whichever occurs first...