The Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle
collider. It’s the largest, arguably most complex facility ever
built. Along with being the largest single machine in the world. The LHC has
and will continue to challenge our (as a species) current idea of physics. The
large hadron collider sits in The European Organization for Nuclear
Research’s (CERN) accelerator complex. The LHC consists
of a 27-kilometer ring of superconducting magnets with a number of
accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way. It first started up on the 10
September 2008, and after a closure and refit in 2013 it opened again in 2015
after being extensively upgraded,
including a beam power enhancement of ~six times its original power.
Back
in 2011 two teams at the Large
Hadron Collider looking for the Higgs Boson announced
that they had finally seen results which could suggest the Higgs Boson particle
existed, The Higgs Boson is a particle that
gives mass to other particles which, if real would lead to much more
interesting discoveries including the source of the creation of the universe.
Around Christmas that year the same teams, announced
that they had finally seen results which could suggest the Higgs Boson particle
existed; however, they did not know for certain if this was true. But on 4
July 2012, the teams at the Large Hadron Collider declared that they had
discovered a particle to which most signs point to being the Higgs Boson. March
the following year the teams had done much more testing, and announced that
they were within acceptable error margin and that the new particle was a Higgs
Boson.
This
discovery is undoubtedly one of the most scientifically significant events in
the history of the Earth.
Many people believe (or
believed) that the Large Hadron Collider could set off a chain reaction that
could lead to Earth's destruction. For more information check out the following
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