Atom smasher collides particles at record energy

[SlowNeasy]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/06/atom-smasher-collides-particles-at-record-energies/

"The increase in energy is all about maximizing the discovery potential of the LHC," Sergio Bertolucci, director of research at the LHC's home lab CERN, said in a statement. "And in that respect, 2012 looks set to be a vintage year for particle physics."

Ramping up to higher energies means the LHC has a better chance of creating the rare and highlysought particles it was designed to search for. These include the long-theorized, but not-yet-detected Higgs boson particle, as well as the particles predicted by a physics theory called supersymmetry. If supersymmetric particles are discovered, they may offer an explanation for the mystery of dark matter, the invisible stuff thought to make up most of the matter in the universe. [Wacky Physics: The Coolest Little Particles in Nature]​

be kind of neat if the higgs boson particle (god particle) is created. i'm not sold on supersymetry yet. ​

 

[kkfan91]

I never could be a person who studies this it makes my head hurt.

 

[SlowNeasy]

i find physics fascinating. the math is way over my head though.

 

[buckaroo]

Slow, I'm like you. I studied both physics and math in college and they came easy to me. It's amazing that we are looking for things so small and yet we can see things so large that it's hard to imagine. I remember when people were worried that a black hole could be produced by the LHC, worried that if one could be produced, it could mean the end of the Earth. Just goes to show how little people know of physics.