Atom smasher will renew hunt for strange particles in 2015

foxnews.com ^

[BenLurkin]

Now, the LHC is set to return in 2015 nearly twice as powerful as its first run from 2010 to 2013.

"Doubling the energy will have a huge impact on the search for new particles at LHC," said experimental particle physicist Gabriella Sciolla, of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, who works on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. "The higher the energy, the heavier the particle one can possibly produce."

[Norm Lenhart]

There are two potentially groundbreaking discoveries now possible. GOP integrity and Liberal intelligence. Both have been hotly debated and long theorized to exist, but no one has ever demonstrated or seen evidence of either. Perhaps now...

[StoneWall Brigade]

Indeed

[KarlInOhio]

There are two potentially groundbreaking discoveries now possible. GOP integrity and Liberal intelligence. Both have been hotly debated and long theorized to exist, but no one has ever demonstrated or seen evidence of either. Perhaps now...

Well maybe theorized by some crackpots like those who still believe in phlogiston or luminiferous ether.

[patriot08]

The Waxachie tx fiasco
Superconducting Super Collider

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Send them a picture of Nancy Pelosi. She’s as strange a particle as they could ever hope to find, and they could save their money

[dr_lew]

"The higher the energy, the heavier the particle one can possibly produce."

This includes quantum black holes, I think, which are entirely hypothetical, heretofore.

I've always been a worry-wart, and this is just the sort of thing that worries a worry-wart. I've seen the issue discussed, in particular in some sort of talk I attended, in a Q&A. Often the excuse is given, that cosmic rays of many times the energy of the LHC have been bombarding the earth for eons. But in this Q&A, the presenter admitted the difference that the LHC has colliding beams, so that IF a QBH were produced, it COULD have very low Center of Mass motion, allowing it to settle into the earth's gravitational well, i.e. THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. This is in contradistinction to a cosmic ray collison, where the Center of Mass frame of reference is moving at relativistic speed, which will be shared by any particles produced by the collision, so no worries in that case ... it's gone!

Another point is that this concern is not one that is raised by cranks. The whole possibilty orginates from the inner sanctum of String Theory, where multi-dimensionality and many other ideas are up for grabs. So, if one is to discount this possibility, what are they trying to discover, anyway?

[Organic Panic]

I thought science was always settled through non existing debate. How wrong I am

[chaosagent]

For more about black holes falling to the center of the earth, check out James Hogan’s Thrice Upon A Time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrice_Upon_a_Time

Good book.

[SunkenCiv]

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[wideminded]

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest particle collider in the world, with a ring about 16 miles in circumference. It accelerates particles to nearly the speed of light using close to 9,600 magnets, comprised of about 10,000 tons of iron, more than in the Eiffel Tower. These magnets are made up of coils of filaments that, if they were unraveled, would stretch to the sun and back five times with enough left over for a few trips to the moon.

If this were true, there would be over 58 million feet of "filaments" for every foot of LHC circumference, or over half a billion feet for every magnet. I know these are supposed to be the most high-tech magnets in the world. Maybe they are more high-tech than I imagined.

[SunkenCiv]

That sounds about right. I was trying to duplicate the calculations and fell asleep (no reflection on the problem, I’m just on an odd schedule of late).