CERN

Friends,

  The first trials are now successful. The Large Hadron Collider is ready show particle physicists the start of our Universe. This is truely earthshaking and could change modern physics.

Peace and Love,

Rev O

Particle smasher begins Big Bang experiment

Los Angeles Times

"GENEVA -- Physicists around the world, some in pajamas and others with champagne, celebrated the first tests Wednesday of a huge particle-smashing machine they hope will simulate the Big Bang, which scientists believe created the universe.

Experiments using the underground Large Hadron Collider, the biggest and most complex machine ever made, could revamp modern physics and unlock secrets about the universe and its origins". .....

"It will be weeks or months before two particles ever crash together in the giant tube, and even longer before scientists can interpret results, said Jos Engelen, chief scientific officer of the European Organization for Nuclear Research."....

"The collider will send beams of subatomic particles called protons whizzing around the tube at just under the speed of light.

The hope is they will smash into one another and explode in a burst of new and previously unseen types of particles, re-creating on a miniature scale the heat and energy of the Big Bang, which scientists say gave birth to the universe 13.7 billion years ago.

The experiments could confirm the existence of the Higgs boson, a theoretical particle named after Peter Higgs, who proposed it in 1964.

Also referred to as the "God particle," the Higgs boson could help explain how matter has mass. Sean M. Carroll, a theoretical physicist at Caltech who watched the events unfolding halfway across the world on a large video screen, said he put the odds of finding the Higgs at 90%."