nsane.forums Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Rennovations will allow LHC to reach its full design energy, improve detectors.No, finding the Higgs boson doesn't mean the end of physics. But as of today, no atoms will be smashed at the LHC (the Large Hadron Collider at CERN) for approximately two years. During that time, every piece of hardware around the accelerator's full circumference will get some attention, as will the detectors that track collisions.The LHC was designed to collide protons with a total energy of 14TeV (Tera-electron Volts), but a catastrophic failure early in its history revealed some of the superconducting connectors within the hardware wasn't up to the task. As a result, the LHC hasn't run collisions at energies above 8TeV. Each of these connectors, which link segments of the pipe that the beam travels within, will be replaced over the next two years. While the machine is shut down, the detectors used to track particles will receive maintenance and upgrades.We're at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this week, and there will be updates on the properties of the Higgs, as well as the search for dark matter particles. Hopefully we'll hear more about the work that went on during the physics runs of the past several years.View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I have heard about this earlier about 2 years ago. This is to collide 2 photons traveling at a speed of light, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I have heard about this earlier about 2 years ago. This is to collide 2 photons traveling at a speed of light, right?yes, it's mankind's search for how the universe began Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted February 15, 2013 Administrator Share Posted February 15, 2013 I have heard about this earlier about 2 years ago. This is to collide 2 photons traveling at a speed of light, right?They have actually successfully found the particle faster than the speed of light. After which, some said it was not possible, to which, they tried again and got the same answer, it is possible for a particle to go faster than the speed of light. Still, some people are not ready to accept this phenomenon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ande Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I have heard about this earlier about 2 years ago. This is to collide 2 photons traveling at a speed of light, right?They have actually successfully found the particle faster than the speed of light. After which, some said it was not possible, to which, they tried again and got the same answer, it is possible for a particle to go faster than the speed of light. Still, some people are not ready to accept this phenomenon.Cause its false. They did not prove anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety.Abd Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I have heard about this earlier about 2 years ago. This is to collide 2 photons traveling at a speed of light, right?Colliding protons traveling nearly at the speed of light, i.e. 0.999999991c. Its impossible to accelerate anything with non-zero rest mass to the speed of light.I have heard about this earlier about 2 years ago. This is to collide 2 photons traveling at a speed of light, right?They have actually successfully found the particle faster than the speed of light. After which, some said it was not possible, to which, they tried again and got the same answer, it is possible for a particle to go faster than the speed of light. Still, some people are not ready to accept this phenomenon.No, the experiment was faulty. There's nothing that travels faster than the speed of light that we're aware of yet. It may be possible, but for now Einstein is the cop on the block, you cannot break the light-speed barrier. Special Relativity is an extremely well-tested theory, in fact its been tested up to 24 decimal places. Relativity is a law, not a theory :)You may watch this video for more information: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety.Abd Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Some implications of faster than light particles:- SPECIAL RELATIVITY: According to relativity, it takes an infinite amount of energy to make anything go faster than light. If these things are [moving faster than light], then these rules would have to be rewritten.- TIME TRAVEL: Special relativity states that nothing can go faster than the speed of light. If something were to exceed this limit, it would move backward in time.- CAUSE & EFFECT: A fundamental law of physics, indeed of all science, is causality: that cause always precedes effect. But if something can travel faster than light, it can travel backward in time, according to the theory. In this case, an "effect" could travel back to a point before its "cause" had occurred — for instance, a baby swinging before he gets a push.- THE STANDARD MODEL: One of the foundations of the Standard Model is special relativity. Tweaking Special Relativity would require major revamp of the theory. Here's a good debate between well-known physicists on the possibility of faster than light particles: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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