The day has finally arrived. Scientists will make the first attempt to circulate the first beam in the LHC or Large Hadron Collider tomorrow. European Organization for Nuclear Research (formerly known as Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) or CERN had earlier announced the start-up date for this most ambitious scientific research project ever to be undertaken by mankind, to be 10th Sep 2008.

If you are not very aware of LHC then here are some quick points.

LHC is the biggest ever scientific research project being undertaken by human which will give us an insight on some of the most intriguing questions like how everything was created? How and why is everything the way it is? From where did the universe,solar system,stars,planet,earth, humans animals and other beings came into existence? It will try to fit in the missing links in the standard theory of physics.

Over 8000 scientists from over 85 countries working for CERN will attempt to uncover these mysteries with help of LHC. The mega machine costs about 8 billion USD. They will make sub-atomic particles called protons collide with each other at nearly the speed of light in pursuit of creation of the moment just before the Big bang and the hypothesized Higgs particle also known as the Higgs Boson and the god’s particle.

LHC spans 27kms in circumference and is situated on the Frech-Swiss border about 80m beneath the earth’s surface.

The protons beam will be circulated in opposite directions and will be accelerated to nearly the speed of light and will be carrying astronomical energy of about 7 TeV each. The energy requirements are being mainly met by France. The protons revolving at the speed or 11,000 revolutions per second (of LHC) will be made to collide at four specific points where the data generated will be collected and the scientists will look for the elusive Higgs particle apart from other researches. To make sure the protons only move in the designated path, the sub atomic particles will be under the influence of about 1600 superconducting magnets operating at -271.25 °C or 1.5 K which as close as currently possible to the  absolute zero kelvin.

When the protons traveling in opposite beams in the tunnel collide with each other, the data will be released at enormous speeds of 27 TB of raw data per day which makes it impossible for normal servers to cope up with the speed of data generation. For this, CERN has designed a new technology called the Grid in which all the computers are interlinked with each other to form one mega super computer. The grid will also revolutionize our internet,possibly making it about 10.000 times faster than it is today.

Watch this video which does a great job of explaining LHC in layman’s language.

See this video from CERN’s site for a better understanding of what they will be doing in the experiment.

LHC will be started on 10 Sep 2008 at 0700 hrs (GMT). The event will be shown live on web also via the CERN webcast. If you wish, you can watch the whole event live at the CERN webcast.

A lot of skeptics are also worried about the negative results of LHC. They fear that the LHC will result in formation of mini black holes, strangelets etc which will consume the Earth and eventually the solar system and the universe. Scientists say that there is no ground for believing in these notions. Renowned UK physicists Brain Cox says that the mini black holes produced by the LHC will be so short lived that they will be incapable of doing any harm to us. The black holes will die out within a few femto seconds of being created. Also, a black hole needs to be of atleast of a particular size to be able to engulf other matter.

And will you be alive after the experiment starts on 10 Sep? Of course yes. Firstly because, they are not colliding protons on Wednesday, they are just attempting to circulate the protons in the tunnel in rclockwise direction. The event which could result in mini black hole will be when they collide the two beams moving in opposite direction with each other, which will be in October 2008. So there is no question of the dooms day to be on Wednesday. So stop listening to all the crap in media.They dont know what they are talking because they dont know that there is no collision taking place on 10th. they just want TRP’s and a little un deserved attention.

Secondly, if today was that day of October on which collision was to take place then also my answer would be a no, because scientists from all over the world, much much smarter than you and me are working on it. Rest assured they will be doing it in the most safe and controlled manner possible.

Watch this video. It shows Michio kaku explaining why LHC will not harm us.

They also dont want the mother earth to die.

As a light ending note, if anything does go wrong and we all die, you can sue me!

The day has finally arrived. Scientists will make the first attempt to circulate the first beam in the LHC or Large Hadron Collider tomorrow. European Organization for Nuclear Research (formerly known as Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) or CERN had earlier announced the start-up date for this most ambitious scientific research project ever to be undertaken by mankind, to be 10th Sep 2008.

If you are not very aware of LHC then here are some quick points.

LHC is the biggest ever scientific research project being undertaken by human which will give us an insight on some of the most intriguing questions like how everything was created? How and why is everything the way it is? From where did the universe,solar system,stars,planet,earth, humans animals and other beings came into existence? It will try to fit in the missing links in the standard theory of physics.

Over 8000 scientists from over 85 countries working for CERN will attempt to uncover these mysteries with help of LHC. The mega machine costs about 8 billion USD. They will make sub-atomic particles called protons collide with each other at nearly the speed of light in pursuit of creation of the moment just before the Big bang and the hypothesized Higgs particle also known as the Higgs Boson and the god’s particle.

LHC spans 27kms in circumference and is situated on the Frech-Swiss border about 80m beneath the earth’s surface.

The protons beam will be circulated in opposite directions and will be accelerated to nearly the speed of light and will be carrying astronomical energy of about 7 TeV each. The energy requirements are being mainly met by France. The protons revolving at the speed or 11,000 revolutions per second (of LHC) will be made to collide at four specific points where the data generated will be collected and the scientists will look for the elusive Higgs particle apart from other researches. To make sure the protons only move in the designated path, the sub atomic particles will be under the influence of about 1600 superconducting magnets operating at -271.25 °C or 1.5 K which as close as currently possible to the  absolute zero kelvin.

When the protons traveling in opposite beams in the tunnel collide with each other, the data will be released at enormous speeds of 27 TB of raw data per day which makes it impossible for normal servers to cope up with the speed of data generation. For this, CERN has designed a new technology called the Grid in which all the computers are interlinked with each other to form one mega super computer. The grid will also revolutionize our internet,possibly making it about 10.000 times faster than it is today.

Watch this video which does a great job of explaining LHC in layman’s language.

See this video from CERN’s site for a better understanding of what they will be doing in the experiment.

LHC will be started on 10 Sep 2008 at 0700 hrs (GMT). The event will be shown live on web also via the CERN webcast. If you wish, you can watch the whole event live at the CERN webcast.

A lot of skeptics are also worried about the negative results of LHC. They fear that the LHC will result in formation of mini black holes, strangelets etc which will consume the Earth and eventually the solar system and the universe. Scientists say that there is no ground for believing in these notions. Renowned UK physicists Brain Cox says that the mini black holes produced by the LHC will be so short lived that they will be incapable of doing any harm to us. The black holes will die out within a few femto seconds of being created. Also, a black hole needs to be of atleast of a particular size to be able to engulf other matter.

And will you be alive after the experiment starts on 10 Sep? Of course yes. Firstly because, they are not colliding protons on Wednesday, they are just attempting to circulate the protons in the tunnel in rclockwise direction. The event which could result in mini black hole will be when they collide the two beams moving in opposite direction with each other, which will be in October 2008. So there is no question of the dooms day to be on Wednesday. So stop listening to all the crap in media.They dont know what they are talking because they dont know that there is no collision taking place on 10th. they just want TRP’s and a little un deserved attention.

Secondly, if today was that day of October on which collision was to take place then also my answer would be a no, because scientists from all over the world, much much smarter than you and me are working on it. Rest assured they will be doing it in the most safe and controlled manner possible.

Watch this video. It shows Michio kaku explaining why LHC will not harm us.

They also dont want the mother earth to die.

As a light ending note, if anything does go wrong and we all die, you can sue me!

CERN has announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN’s new particle accelerator reaches a successful conclusion. Television coverage of the start-up will be made available through Eurovision.

The LHC is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, producing beams seven times more energetic than any previous machine, and around 30 times more intense when it reaches design performance, probably by 2010. Housed in a 27-kilometre tunnel, it relies on technologies that would not have been possible 30 years ago. The LHC is, in a sense, its own prototype.

Starting up such a machine is not as simple as flipping a switch. Commissioning is a long process that starts with the cooling down of each of the machine’s eight sectors. This is followed by the electrical testing of the 1600 superconducting magnets and their individual powering to nominal operating current. These steps are followed by the powering together of all the circuits of each sector, and then of the eight independent sectors in unison in order to operate as a single machine.

By the end of July, this work was approaching completion, with all eight sectors at their operating temperature of 1.9 degrees above absolute zero (-271°C). The next phase in the process is synchronization of the LHC with the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator, which forms the last link in the LHC’s injector chain. Timing between the two machines has to be accurate to within a fraction of a nanosecond. A first synchronization test is scheduled for the weekend of 9 August, for the clockwise-circulating LHC beam, with the second to follow over the coming weeks. Tests will continue into September to ensure that the entire machine is ready to accelerate and collide beams at an energy of 5 TeV per beam, the target energy for 2008. Force majeure notwithstanding, the LHC will see its first circulating beam on 10 September at the injection energy of 450 GeV (0.45 TeV).

Once stable circulating beams have been established, they will be brought into collision, and the final step will be to commission the LHC’s acceleration system to boost the energy to 5 TeV, taking particle physics research to a new frontier.

‘We’re finishing a marathon with a sprint,’ said LHC project leader Lyn Evans. ‘It’s been a long haul, and we’re all eager to get the LHC research programme underway.’

CERN will be issuing regular status updates between now and first collisions. Journalists wishing to attend CERN for the first beam on 10 September must be accredited with the CERN press office. Since capacity is limited, priority will be given to news media. The event will be webcast through http://webcast.cern.ch, and distributed through the Eurovision network. Live stand up and playout facilities will also be available.

A media centre will be established at the main CERN site, with access to the control centres for the accelerator and experiments limited and allocated on a first come first served basis. This includes camera positions at the CERN Control Centre, from where the LHC is run. Only television media will be able to access the CERN Control Centre. No underground access will be possible.

For further information and accreditation procedures: http://www.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam

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