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(PhysOrg.com) -- Glasgow scientists, working at CERN, have observed the first particles in the Large Hadron Collider during preliminary tests ahead of the switch-on next month.
The LHC, based at the European particle facility CERN near Geneva, is due to fully switch on its proton beams on 10 September but the LHC's particle detectors have been recording hits from cosmic rays for several months and at 5pm on Friday 22 August 2008 LHCb*, one of the four LHC experiments, reconstructed in its Vertex Locator (VELO) the first particles from the LHC. It is the first time particle tracks have been reconstructed from a man-made event generated by the collider.
The observation was made during a synchronisation test of the accelerator when the particles passed through a short section of the new 27km long LHC accelerator.
The LHC synchronisation test collided a beam of protons with a 28 tonne absorber 200m away from LHCb, producing a shower of particles. Some of these particles reached the LHCb experiment, where the tracks were observed by a small team of scientists. The observation was made with one quarter of the LHCb VELO detector operational on Friday 22 August. Given the success of this run, an additional sequence of beam collisions on the absorber were provided by the accelerator on Sunday morning and the full VELO detector was read out.
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When this goes on;ine in September it could potentially change, forever, the way we see the universe. YouTube - Large Hadron Rap | 
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Is that the same machine that is going to make a black hole that swallows all the earth? 
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Originally Posted by WI Crippler  Is that the same machine that is going to make a black hole that swallows all the earth? | It will create conditions very similar to millionths of a second after the big bang. Any black hole made by sub atomic particles will be too small to do anyything. Micro black hole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | |
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Should the LHC find particles beyond higgs to better explain the universe we can expect the religious nuts to be bitching about how science is again attacking religion. | |
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Originally Posted by jfuh Should the LHC find particles beyond higgs to better explain the universe we can expect the religious nuts to be bitching about how science is again attacking religion. | If it is found then religion can not logically exist in any other than a ridiculous god of the gaps form. | |
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Originally Posted by WI Crippler Is that the same machine that is going to make a black hole that swallows all the earth? | Yes, and I'll be the first one to go. This thing is a stone throw away from where I work. 
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Originally Posted by Frank Talk If it is found then religion can not logically exist in any other than a ridiculous god of the gaps form. | one could only hope.
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This experiment will be huge, but the majority will never understand. It is sad how the U.S. has fallen behind in science and math.
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