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Can the CERN LHC Destroy Earth?
A calculation of the total energy density produced by protons in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN shows it is not likely to destroy Earth.
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CERN Large Hadron Collider to Restart Late 2009
Damage to CERN's Large Hadron Collider from the mishap shortly after it opened in September, 2008 required extensive repairs. The LHC will restart in late 2009.
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The Large Hadron Collider Finally Starts Up
In what The Guardian has called the most ambitious experiment, the Large Hadron Collider, the largest particle accelerator, is about to start up after a 20 year wait.
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World's Biggest Gun Set to Fire September 2008
Straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, 50 meters underground and an astonishing 17 miles long; the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is easily the World's biggest gun.
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CERN – The Big Bang Machine
With the much heralded switch on of the Large Hadron Collider, scientists can begin investigating conditions comparable to those at the beginning of time.
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Engineering the Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest machine, used to learn more about the tiniest particles of matter.
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What Happened to the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Shortly after the CERN Large Hadron Collider accelerated its first protons, an accidental liquid He leak caused some magnets to warm up and necessitated repairs.
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Tevatron Racing LHC to the Finish
Fermilab's Tevatron is trying to make more scientific news before Europe's huge Large Hadron Collider completes repairs and begins operations again in the Spring of 2009.
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Linear and Circular Accelerators
Particle Accelerators form an enormous part of physical discovery, and as such, they are constantly getting bigger, better, and (much) more expensive.
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Finding the God Particle
Scientists hope to solve the mystery of matter by mimicking conditions that existed just a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
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Calculating Density of Black Holes
To form a black hole, matter must be compressed to such high densities that it is smaller than the event horizon or Schwarzschild radius.
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What Are Hadrons
Protons and other types of hadrons interact via the strong nuclear force. Hadrons are further classified into mesons and baryons.
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Wormholes
A Wormhole is a theoretical shortcut through spacetime that connects two distant locations.
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Outer Space in Film True or False?
A rich imagination is integral for the makers of any memorable science fiction project, but how true are some of the scenarios that made it to the screen?
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Are Scientists Closing in on the Higgs Boson?
Scientists with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory say their machine has a 50% chance of discovering the particle which is believed to give mass to the universe.
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Understanding Bosons and Fermions
The Higgs boson, aka the god particle, which physicists hope to detect with the new LHC, is the holy grail of modern particle physics. What are bosons and fermions?
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The Universe in a Nutshell
Stephen Hawking followed up A Brief History of Time with a book that took on the other aspect of his work, space, bringing theoretical physics within reach of the layman.
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Discoveries in Physics 2008
Among the wealth of physics discoveries in 2008 editors and science writers of the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society has selected ten.
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Travelling at Light Speed
Proton collisions, at near light speeds, lead to bizarre effects which seemingly defy common sense. Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity helps to make sense of it all.
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