So, yesterday in Switzerland, a bunch of subatomic particles busted out a lap around the largest, most powerful particle accelerator ever conceived by us tiny humans.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is up and running, but it’s not the only project testing the vast limits of scientific discovery. Japan’s Large Helical Device has some fancy nuclear fusion experiments going on as well.
The projects are amazing, but what’s truly spectacular is the design that has gone into these magnificent creations. Take a look.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
After a few billion dollars and years of construction, the Large Hadron Collider is 17 miles long, to make those protons pop, and 100 meters deep, to keep that slightly potent radiation away from those with sensitive skin. It’s located in Geneva, Switzerland at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) laboratory.
Images © CERN Multimedia Gallery
More on the LHC
Princton.edu Large Hadron Collider design & construction report
Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the World Yet.com
Cern Experiment: Machine switched on. No Big Bang. It works.
CERN Website
The Large Helical Device
The Large Helical Device confines hot plasma using a ‘heliotron magnetic fields’ to control a nuclear fusion reaction. It’s just massive, super-conducting and yet quite a bit stronger than double-baggin’ that stuff.
More on the Large Helical Device
The Large Helical Device Website
Joint European Nuclear Fusion Gallery
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Looking at it I think, wasn't it cheap! A magnificant achievement in the quest for knowledge..
Incredidle. All of this equpipment and expense to smash some atoms together. I do hope that the scientists discover something out of this that will have some real world use in the end.
Crazy huh, and they didn't even smash any day one. Just let those little guys scamper around the track to see if it would work. NOW, when they actually make them collide we'll see if any of their discoveries come about. Like mainframe to PC, I'm sure we'll have personal Super Colliders on our desktops at some point right? “Super Colliders on every engineers desktop”
Hey great scientific community, you should use your talents that God gave you to contribute to health, food, environment, etc,, instead of using great quantities of money, years of research and development for things that are not important to human life. Only God is almighty and he knows the absolute true of all the universe, visible and invisible.
Please change your thinking and let's go working together for the wellbeing of all the humanity in the name of God.
Why to expend much money and talent in games. You should work in projects of life, protect por planet and its life.
Why to expend much money and talent in games. You should work in projects of life, protect por planet and its life.
Set your own life time more simple get the credit loans and all you need.
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