The Worlds Biggest Experiment

CERN…Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire

Large Hadron ColliderWorlds most expensive science project!!Worlds largest particle acceleratorWorlds largest energy acceleratorParticles will accelerate to 99.9999% of the

speed of lightIt is 27kilometers (17 miles) in circumference

It will operate at 1.9 Kelvin (colder than outer space)

By contrast the blast from the beams will be 100,000 times hotter then the heart of the sun.

The internal pressure in the LHC is 10-13 (atm)It is located in the Jura Mountains and the Alps

near Geneva SwitzerlandIt was funded and built by over 10,000 scientists

and engineers from over 100 counties as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories

It will cost anywhere from 3.2 billion to 6.4 billion dollars to build and operate!!

Produce the Higgs BosonUnify or destroy the existing theories of

matterCreate a real understanding on how the

universe works and how it beganProve of disprove the existence of other

dimensions beyond the four that we know ofprove antimatters effects on the universeProve the existence of dark matter and its

influence on us.

It will be upgraded after ten years of serviceThe initial beam will carry more protons or

“bigger packets”The luminescent sensors will also be

upgraded to record the happenings betterLots more money…they won’t say…(surprise)

CERN website: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/