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A Fibre Fix for the Big Bang Machine

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Jörg Schwartz, [email protected]

GENEVA – News coverage of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) showed severe signs of overheating as its start time approached in September. Some tabloids predicted that the world would be sucked into a black hole created by the €3 billion physics supermachine, which has been set up to allow researchers to experimentally re-create – and understand – the conditions that existed just after our universe was created in the big bang. The theory is that this can be done by having two beams of subatomic particles called “hadrons” – either protons or lead ions – colliding head-on at very high energy. The...Read full article

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    Published: December 2008
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    black hole
    A cosmic phenomenon in which the mass and density of a star pass a critical point so that the escape velocity matches the speed of light. For this reason, light and matter are "captured'' by the black hole and cannot escape.
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