experiment in november, black holes? how universe was created?!?

Question

i read that in november there will be some huge experiment, the biggest ever, happening in november this year to look at what particles are made in a collision. protons will be sent in different directions at high speed round the circumference of a hole as i understand so they collide. apparently it will look at creating mini black holes which will give more information on how the universe was originally created. anyone else heard anything of it? i am so confused!! xxx

Answer 1

This sounds like a description of the Large Hadron Collider experiment (LHC) which is due to start around November this year, at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland.

Two beams of protons will be accelerated to high speed, and then sent in opposite directiosn around a 27km (17mi) cirumference ring - which they will go round in just 90 microseconds.

At these speeds the protons are carrying huge amounts of energy, so when they collide, there is the possibility of creating new and exotic particles. The one of main interest is the Higgs Boson, which is thought to give other elementary particles their mass.

There has also been a suggestion that mini black holes could be created, but it seems unlikely, and is not the purpose of the experiment. If they were created, it is most likely that they would dispappear again just as quickly (but not entirely certain). Some people have expressed concern that a stable black hole would be created, which could start to absorb matter around it, and maybe the whole Earth! However, a study concluded that this was highly unlikely - the best argument against it is that cosmic rays from space with far higher energies collide in our atmosphere all the time, and the Earth hasn't been eaten by a black hole yet!

Answer 2

If 2 particles are made to collide and both at .9 the speed of light will not work. The mass of a particle will start about .9 the speed of light and the mass will start to increase so it will take more energy to accelerate so u can not get there. U haven't got the energy to continue to accelerate the particle. The only thing that will accelerate to form a black hole is the collapse of a sun ,so as the mass increases the mass increases and so gravity will accelerate more and the mass will continue to accelerate.

Answer 3

The CMBR basically shows the universe from the tip of the "darkish a while" on. earlier that component, the universe became opaque - ie the universe wasn't sparkling so regardless of mild became emitted became reabsorbed. The CMBR shows the state of the universe at that component, yet no longer the states that led to that component.