Tomorrow CERN is planning to power up it's Large Hadron Collider, result of a project started in the 1980s. The objective of this experiment is not a trivial one - in fact, some physicists take it to provide key facts about the creation of the universe.
Now I wonder: what happens if it doesn't? For sure a lot of calculations were done so it is likely that some things can be observed. But in some sense I doubt that we will know the universe's deepest secrets in the near future. And I can't help imagining some irritated faces should the outcome of this experiment be: nothing?
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Luckily, they know the questions they want to ask, unlike with the Deep Thought. The main issue is to run some tests that previously were only described theoretically. In physics you ought either to prove something by experiment, or if not possible, describe the test that can be done (let it even be the infamous cat test). So Higs and his team did that, and with LHC it is possible to check if the god damned particle exists. They say the data that will be collected will be enough for several years calculations. If it were not years, but generations, probably we would also end up with 42.
gytis found a link giving deep insights on the issue:
www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com
so, if you are curious and can face the answer - just click it!
You are right, it may happen that the expected results will be missing, but maybe each result, also the ebsence of the expected results is important for going on with those experiments. As some scientist said, a missing result will induce to review the theory about the experiment. About the fact how far we are from knowing about the deepest secrets of our universe, who knows if we ever will reach this knowledge? But at least we are going some steps forward to reach it.
ok, this might be a fair point. either way it comes to my mind if one shouldnt just feed the poor instead of spending all these billions in search of some particle.. but then i guess we could shut down the whole system..
or, as you sent it (http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html) the problem might literally solve itself :P
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