just the basics nothing to indepth.
2006-08-22 03:08:48 · 5 answers · asked by ah64dtk 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
www.exploratorium.edu/origins/cern/ - Be careful trying to access blueprints or other sensitive data.
2006-08-22 03:17:07 · answer #1 · answered by mrkymrk64 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Basically, it works the same way as a mass driver. It's composed of a big long tube, sometimes straight, sometimes in a loop, surrounded by equipment that makes high-strength magnetic or electric fields. This pushes charged partiles (ions, alpha and beta particles, positrons, etc) through the tube, and, if it's timed right, can get them up to very high speeds. Generally the particles are then made to hit something (either other particles going the other way or some kind of collector) and measurements are taken as to what happens when they hit. Physicists can learn and have learned quite a bit about particle physics using these accelerators.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator
2006-08-22 10:17:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is this massive machine that takes a bunch of atom and speed them up close to the speed of light, hoping that 2 atoms will collide and break into its subatomic particles: protons, neutrons, and electrons.
2006-08-22 10:15:00 · answer #3 · answered by yofatcat1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we'll never really know because the u.s. government, after condemning farm land here in tx, built the dog-gone thang and never got it running
Heard them frenchies got one, ask them
2006-08-22 10:17:02 · answer #4 · answered by hnz57txn 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Read "Angels and Demons". It might help.
2006-08-22 10:14:26 · answer #5 · answered by flit 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋