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may 16 2007
November of this year sees the inauguration of the LHC, the most potent accelerator of particles in the world. 27 meters underground in the border of thre Franco French border, close to Geneva, you can find the installations of this giant physics laboratory of particles, constructed by CERN (European organization of nuclear investigation).
The experiments carried out, will help us understand physics a bit better. In reality it will allow us to understand much more. An accelerator shoots subatomic particles at velocities nearing the speed of light, in an environment free of friction at a temperature cooler than space. What is studied is when particles collide with each other. On direct impact, the particles explode allowing us to see what they are of.
New physics theories, like the string theory (m theory), explains a level of physics called strings. These are small filaments of energy that vibrate in different ways generating everything we understand, such as the different elements in the periodic table, oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, etc…the strings are much thinner than any of the subatomic particles and therefore we cannot detect them. One of the proposals of the installations of CERN is find evidence to corroborate in new directions physics is undergoing today.
For more information:
http://public.web.cern.ch
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