Many ordinary people on the planet ask themselves the question of why they need a large hadron collider. Incomprehensible to most scientific research, which spent a lot of billions of euros, cause concern and apprehension.
Maybe this is not research at all, but a prototype of a time machine or a portal for teleporting alien creatures that can change the fate of mankind? Rumors go the most fantastic and scary. In the article we will try to figure out what the hadron collider is and why it was created.
The ambitious project of humanity
The Large Hadron Collider is today the most powerful particle accelerator on the planet. It is located on the border of Switzerland and France. More precisely, under it: at a depth of 100 meters lies an annular accelerator tunnel with a length of almost 27 kilometers. The owner of the test site worth more than $ 10 billion is the European Center for Nuclear Research.
A huge amount of resources and thousands of nuclear physicists are involved in accelerating protons and heavy lead ions to a speed close to the light speed in different directions, after which they collide with each other. The results of direct interactions are carefully studied.
The proposal to create a new particle accelerator came in 1984. For ten years, various discussions have been held about what the hadron collider will be, why such a large-scale research project is needed. Only after discussing the features of the technical solution and the required installation parameters the project was approved. Construction began only in 2001, having allocated underground communications for the former elementary particle accelerator — a large electron-positron collider — for its placement.
Why do we need a large hadron collider
The interaction of elementary particles is described in different ways. The theory of relativity conflicts with quantum field theory. The missing link in finding a unified approach to the structure of elementary particles is the impossibility of creating a theory of quantum gravity. That's why the high-power hadron collider is needed.
The total energy in the collision of particles is 14 tera-electron-volts, which makes the device a much more powerful accelerator than all existing in the world today. After conducting experiments that were previously impossible for technical reasons, scientists are very likely to be able to document or refute existing theories of the microworld.
Studying the quark-gluon plasma produced during the collision of lead nuclei will allow us to construct a more advanced theory of strong interactions that can radically change nuclear physics and methods of cognition of stellar space.
Higgs boson
Back in 1960, a physicist from Scotland, Peter Higgs, developed the Higgs field theory, according to which particles falling into this field are subjected to quantum action, which in the physical world can be observed as the mass of an object.
If during the experiments it is possible to confirm the theory of the Scottish nuclear physicist and find the Higgs boson (quantum), then this event may become a new starting point for the development of the inhabitants of the Earth.
And the opened possibilities of the person controlling gravity will greatly exceed all the visible prospects for the development of technological progress. Moreover, advanced scientists are not more interested in the presence of the Higgs boson, but in the process of breaking electroweak symmetry.
How does he work
In order for the experimental particles to reach a speed inconceivable for the surface, which is almost equal to the speed of light in vacuum, they are accelerated gradually, each time increasing energy.
First, linear accelerators inject lead ions and protons, which are then subjected to stepwise acceleration. Particles through the booster get into the proton synchrotron, where they get a charge of 28 GeV.
At the next stage, the particles enter the super-synchrotron, where the energy of their charge is brought up to 450 GeV. Having achieved such indicators, the particles fall into the main multi-kilometer ring, where in specially located places of collision, detectors record in detail the moment of impact.
In addition to detectors capable of detecting all processes in a collision, 1625 magnets with superconductivity are used to hold proton bunches in the accelerator. Their total length exceeds 22 kilometers. A special cryogenic chamber maintains a temperature of −271 ° C to achieve the effect of superconductivity. The cost of each such magnet is estimated at one million euros.
End justifies the means
To carry out such ambitious experiments, the most powerful hadron collider was built. Why do we need a multi-billion dollar scientific project, many scientists are told with undisguised enthusiasm by many scientists. True, in the case of new scientific discoveries, most likely, they will be reliably classified.
You can even say for sure. Confirmation of this is the whole history of civilization. When the wheel was invented, war chariots appeared. He mastered mankind metallurgy - hello, guns and guns!
All the most modern developments today are becoming the property of the military-industrial complexes of developed countries, but not of all mankind. When scientists learned how to split an atom, what came first? Nuclear power reactors, however, after hundreds of thousands of deaths in Japan. The inhabitants of Hiroshima were clearly against the scientific progress that tomorrow and they took from them and their children.
Technical development looks like a mockery of people, because the person in it will soon turn into the weakest link. According to the theory of evolution, the system develops and grows stronger, getting rid of weaknesses. It may happen soon that we will have no place in the world of improving technology. Therefore, the question "why do we need a large hadron collider right now" is actually not an idle curiosity, because it is caused by fear for the fate of all mankind.
Questions that are not answered
Why do we need a large hadron collider, if millions on the planet die of hunger and incurable, and sometimes treatable diseases? Does he help to overcome this evil? Why do we need a hadron collider for humanity, which, with all the development of technology, has not been able to learn how to successfully fight cancer for a hundred years? Or maybe it’s just more profitable to provide expensive medical services than to find a way to heal? Given the existing world order and ethical development, only a handful of representatives of the human race need a large hadron collider. Why is it needed by the entire population of the planet, leading a non-stop battle for the right to live in a world free from attacks on anyone's life and health? The story is silent about this …
Fears of scientific colleagues
There are other representatives of the scientific community who express serious concerns about the safety of the project. It is highly probable that the scientific world in its experiments, due to its limited knowledge, may lose control over processes that are not even fully understood.
This approach resembles the laboratory experiments of young chemists - mix everything and see what happens. The final example could end in a laboratory explosion. And if such a "success" befalls the hadron collider?
Why do we need an unjustified risk to earthlings, especially since the experimenters cannot say with full certainty that the processes of particle collisions, leading to the formation of temperatures exceeding the temperature of our luminary by 100 thousand times, will not cause a chain reaction of all the matter of the planet ?! Or they will simply cause a chain nuclear reaction capable of fatally ruining a vacation in the mountains of Switzerland or in the French Riviera …
