The Mystery of the Missing Mass

Posted by SpaceMan in CERN on 12 23rd, 2010 | no responses

A film about Dark Matter – Dr Tara Shears explains why scientists think that most of the mass in the universe is made up of something we can’t see and how a new experiment called the Large Hadron Collider might finally tell us exactly what this “Dark Matter” is. To learn more visit www.labreporter.com

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Posted by SpaceMan in CERN on 12 20th, 2010 | no responses

The world’s largest particle physics laboratory is under construction on the border between Switzerland and France. At the heart is the Large Hadron Collider Particle Accelerator being built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Its members hope it will reveal secrets of the universe and its formation. The goal of the project is to discover the origin of matter by replicating conditions just after “the big bang.” Twenty nations and international bodies make up CERN. Last April, scientists and journalists gathered at its Swiss headquarters, as the last of 1700 huge magnets was lowered into the Large Hadron Collider or LHC. CERN Director General Robert Aymar said, “It is an enormous task, with very tricky logistics, because the tunnel is very narrow, and when we move the magnets in nobody can be in the way.” The particle accelerator and collider is a 27 kilometer tunnel, about 100 meters underground. CERN spokesman James Gillies describes the accelerator. “This is a discovery machine. It’s built to make discoveries and is going to tell us lots of new things about the universe.” If all goes as planned, subatomic particles will be accelerated around the tunnel next year, eventually approach light speed, and smash into one another. Gillies adds, “To me the most exciting thing is that we know an awful lot about a small amount of the universe. We understand the stars, the galaxies, the stuff which makes up you and me, but we also know from cosmology that is …

Tags: Hadron, nuclear, particle, physics

Heavy Ion Collision Event Animation

Posted by SpaceMan in CERN on 12 3rd, 2010 | no responses

Early heavy ion events in first heavy-ion fill with stable beam collisions seen in the ATLAS Experiment, 8 November 2010.

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Higgz Boson

Posted by SpaceMan in CERN on 11 27th, 2010 | no responses

An inside look at the LHC

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Why the LHC isn’t Scary

Posted by SpaceMan in CERN on 11 22nd, 2010 | no responses

Ugh. People freaking out about science with no good reason to gives me a headache.

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Posted by SpaceMan in CERN on 11 1st, 2010 | no responses

Equal amounts of matter and antimatter were created at the birth of the universe but there’s very little of it around today. Dr Tara Shears explains why this is one of the greatest mysteries in science and how it might be solved by the biggest experiment in history. To learn more, visit www.labreporter.com

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Posted by SpaceMan in CERN on 10 23rd, 2010 | no responses

A timelapse video from the ATLAS webcam. ATLAS is one of the detectors in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), which will be completed in 2007 I made this video by taking one image per day from the atlas webcam and combining them (its 15 days per second)

Tags: physics, Higgs, collider, webcam