Saturday, February 17, 2007
Particle Accelerator to Recreate Big Bang Conditions
At a news conference in Beijing recently, an international consortium of physicists released the first detailed design of a new particle accelerator to complement the Large Hadron Collider now under construction at the European Center for Nuclear Research @ CERN, near Geneva.
The machine works by bringing together electrons and positrons to produce enough energy to recreate conditions similar to those of the universe just a fraction of the second after the Big Bang.
By getting conditions closer to those during the Big Bang scientists hope to understand the ultimate truth about the beginnings of the universe.
Source: New York Times
The machine works by bringing together electrons and positrons to produce enough energy to recreate conditions similar to those of the universe just a fraction of the second after the Big Bang.
By getting conditions closer to those during the Big Bang scientists hope to understand the ultimate truth about the beginnings of the universe.
Source: New York Times
Labels: physics
