Many of you will have heard the news of the particle accelerator in France and Switzerland, which some produce to the world, but why is it so important? What's much fuss? Well, I'm here, I will try to explain it with the information I have been collecting and knowledge I have.
I want to talk about the Large Hadron Collider (English Large Hadron Collider or LHC ) which is a particle accelerator.
What is a particle accelerator?
As defined by the Wikipedia :
"The particle accelerators CHTMLXonseguida before in an accelerator.
How much energy are we talking about?
of 7 TeV each of the two beams and the total energy released will be of 1150 TeV. (The
electron volt, abbreviated eV
, is a unit of energy equal to kinetic energy (energy of Movement), which takes an electron to be accelerated by a potential difference in the vacuum of 1 volt.)
let me as it was, is that a lot or little? depends. According to compare it with what may be more or less, at the level of particles is a considerable amount, but to get an idea of how much is 1 TeV (tera electron volt) is the equiequivalent to the energy of a mosquito or fly to get an idea with more material, thinking that the energy released by a body of 1 kg falling from a height of 1 m is equal to 6.1x10
19 electron volts, ie 61,000,000 TeV. Therefore, the energy released in the LHC is minimal, what happens is that energy is highly concentrated, as it concentrates this energy into a space a billion times smaller than a mosquito.
To clarify the issue of the importance of energy and concentration, thinking that when you clap for example, energy is released barely notes, but now thinks you have a needle in one hand, then if that While notaries energy.
How will gotr these energies?
As the idea is to launch two beams of protons through the LHC, which is a circular tube of 27 km in length, each beam in one direction, causing them to collide head-on at a speed close to that of light (namely 99% of the speed of light according to Wikipedia). And in order to function, all pipe must be at a temperature close to absolute zero (degrees Kelvin), ie, close to -273 ยบ C, specifically 271 ° C below zero.
demonstrate or even pretend What you want?
What is mainly prentede check
Standard Model, ie the current atomic model.
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find missing particles to explain the different properties of matter, which is consistent with the Higgs boson , a hypothetical subatomic particle
to explain the origin of mass. Therefore, scientists want to check if this particle really exists or if instead there and the current model is not valid.
So much for a particle?
Yes and no. It is important to determine the origin of matter, but also will try to find out more: "According to scientists, the amount of matter known to man through the telescope is 4% of the universe. Therefore, the search remains openparticles or phenomena responsible for dark matter (23%) and dark energy (73%). (source: CERN)
-Solve the mystery of antimatter . Let's say that antimatter is the opposite of matter. For example, the electron has its opposite, the positron, which is contrary to the electron, but not only in charge, but also in the field. Well let's say an electron and a positron in contact, both are neutralized. On the other hand, the known universe is only matter, therefore, is that the Big Bang was more of matter than antimatter, which meant that only stay matter? For the LHC will attempt to answer this question.
- On the other hand, the collision of protons will recreate the cohigher than is being released, keep in mind that a black hole is formed by the collapse of a star.
Why is it important to form a black hole?
It would confirm the idea that our universe consists of more of the 4 known dimensions (the 3 space and time) and do not know if more would help.
And if they can generate because they do nothing?
Because they are confident that if it does occur, these would not be stable, and if they were, because of its small size, could not absorb the material at high speed, taking more than 5 billion years before absorb a significant part of the Earth, at which the Sun ds, if the world ends, I want you to know that ": D
The information has been obtained from Wikipedia
, CERN (project managers) and my Physics profs over the years.
I hope you have help you understand better the issue and thanks for reading.
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