After nine years of construction, the seventeen mile long scientific instrument/experiment known as the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is prepared to change our understanding of the world. The LHC is an enormous particle accelerator that shoots two beams of subatomic particles (Hadrons) around a track of tubing in opposite directions and "collides" them together. By colliding these particles together scientists are able to use detectors constructed for the LHC to examine the particles created by colliding the Hadrons together. One of the main goals of the LHC is to simulate conditions after the Big Bang in order to dicover new information on the origin of mass. Another is to learn more about Higgs Particle. Higgs is one of the last undiscovered territories in modern science.
The Large Hadron Collider will also play a large role in how the internet might work in the future. The LHC will be capable of teaching us how to transmit large quantities of data through to the internet. When the LHC is at it's full capacity it will be able to put out 5 Gigabytes of data every 5 seconds, with an annual output of about 15 million gigabytes. Compared to the capabilities of bandwith now the LHC can possibly revolutionize the internet.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-lhc-may-change-internet
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Thats a lot of gigabytes... i hope it works out okay because than the internet will be a lot better and information will be able to travel faster.
But did you know that in order for all that data to be sent you need a software called "middleware"
The funny thing is, is that if Globus is successful nobody will know it
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-lhc-may-change-internet
This is pretty cool. Did you know that they want to use it to try and re-create the big bang theory. Also it spans over 100m long on the border of Switzerland and France.
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html
That sounds really useful. I could use that right now because my internet is really slow. Did you know that it collides opposing beams of protons or leads each moving about 99.9999991% of the speed of light.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
Wow, that's really cool. I hope it works, it would benefit all the people who have slow computers, like me.
Did you know that the LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
WOOOO That is really something Tons of memeroy That must have took for ever to get this going and the funding WOW !this would Also benefit millions of peple around the worl also did you know that The LHC was officially inugurated at CERN on October 21 in Geneva switzerlandn
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=30010
Pretty cool, did you know that there was a chance that a black hole could be created using this? Although the black hole would be so small that it'd disappear almost instantly.
They're were also rumors spreading that the world would end because of it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15risk.html
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