Scientists at the massive
Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss Alps have easily replicated the
innovative mini-Big Bang results of a previous experiment which created
the ‘primordial soup’ of the just-born universe.
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| God Particle |
Super-hot ‘quark-gluon plasma’
is believed to have existed just nano-seconds after the Big Bang, and
to have formed the stuff of galaxies, planets, suns, and all life forms.
Such new data on the birth of the universe is pouring in from the
experiments, leading physicists to consider extending the current phase
of the project for two more years.
The new results took only days
of colliding lead ions in the massive machine at ultra-high energies,
and produced temperatures 500,000 times higher than in the sun’s core.
The resultant mini-Big Bangs were even more intense than those caused
using hydrogen protons during the Collider’s first seven months of
operation.
The planned
two-year extension could result in earlier discovery of the Higgs Boson
particle believed to be the stimulus which changed the initial fabric of
the universe, an amorphous mass of particles, into solid matter.
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| Lord Sree Maha Vishnu |
According to CERN Director
General Rolf Heuer, scientists working on the project want to maintain
the momentum of the new discoveries, as everything previously understood
has now been confirmed and new territories are waiting to be explored.
The ‘known unknowns’ are coming into view, and the as yet unimaginable
lies beyond.
The Large Hadron Collider is
at present being shut down for its regular winter maintenance schedule
and experiments will recommence in February next year.
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