God Particle Higgs Boson announcement from CERN expected today
A major announcement from CERN is expected about God Particle or Higgs Boson later today. Will it reveal something new?
We may be going to hear a great announcement regarding the much speculated God Particle from CERN laboratory in Geneva. After long delays and malfunctions marked by repeated failures a proton-proton collision at LHC particle accelerator actually took place at CERN.
This has made the whole world get up and take notice, with many people already claiming that the collision has proved the existence of a God particle.
But by the way, does God really need an experiment to prove that He really existed, more so in an experiment that may go wrong –like any other scientific experiment- and where machineries can break like anywhere else in the world?
Reports emanating from CERN laboratory in Switzerland suggest that we may hear some announcement in this regard as soon as later today.
A report says, “Nobody has observed the Higgs Boson, known fancifully as the “God” particle, because such a particle could only be detected under conditions present just after the Big Bang. So, how can scientists replicate such conditions today, in a Universe that has cooled significantly since those early moments? Fact is, they HAVE been producing regions of such high temperature and energy within the confines of particle accelerators. The concept of an accelerator is somewhat straightforward: particles such as protons are shot through a tunnel at high velocities (significant fractions of light speed) in such a way as to make them collide.
Scientists have suggested that such collisions produce tremendous amounts of energy and scatter constituent parts of these hadrons, as they’re called, within range of detectors. By examining the detectors, physicists have tried to detect the “hidden” particles within and also determine their properties.
CERN website while detailing about Large Hadron Collider says, “To sample and record the results of up to 600 million proton collisions per second, physicists and engineers have built gargantuan devices that measure particles with micron precision. The LHC’s detectors have sophisticated electronic trigger systems that precisely measure the passage time of a particle to accuracies in the region of a few billionths of a second. The trigger system also registers the location of the particles to millionths of a metre. This incredibly quick and precise response is essential for ensuring that the particle recorded in successive layers of a detector is one and the same”. The LHC cost the world as much as $10 billion.
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