howiebrou said:
Thanks. It will be interesting to see how many of your tweaks you need to keep after the arrival of your ginormous RGPC thermal nuclear station
yes- I think that unit can accelerate quarks -he could perform his own quantum physics!
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which will probe deeper into matter than ever before. Due to switch on in 2007, it will ultimately collide beams of protons at an energy of 14 TeV . Beams of lead nuclei will be also accelerated, smashing together with a collision energy of 1150 TeVThe LHC is the next step in a voyage of discovery which began a century ago. Back then, scientists had just discovered all kinds of mysterious rays, X-rays, cathode rays, alpha and beta rays. Where did they come from? Were they all made of the same thing, and if so what?
These questions have now been answered, giving us a much greater understanding of the Universe. Along the way, the answers have changed our daily lives, giving us televisions, transistors, medical imaging devices and computers.
On the threshold of the 21st century, we face new questions which the LHC is designed to address. Who can tell what new developments the answers may bring?
"The LHC Project Leader Lyn Evans (left) and Lucio Rossi, head of the Magnets, Cryostats and Superconductors Group (right), in front of the final superconducting main magnet delivered to CERN. Part of the magnet can be seen on the back of the long delivery lorry, extending outside the frame of the photograph" in the right picture