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Line 1: − The '''Large Hadron Collider''' (LHC) is the largest and most ambitious piece of [[machinery]] ever conceived and built by man. The [[particle accelerator]], with a circumference of 27km, is located at the [[CERN]] facility with straddles the border of [[France]] and [[Switzerland]]. The power of this collider will exceed any previously achieved, reaching the order of TeV.+ − − The LHC was powered up on Wednesday 10 September 2008, with the first beams being circulated through the collider. It reached full power in mid-November 2008, which was when the particle physicists were planning on starting the high energy collisions. This was hampered however as the LHC suffered a mechanical [[breakdown]] due to microfractures in the supercooled magnetic accelerator (due to superfluid liquid helium) soon after it was switched on and will not be active again until early 2009. − − The LHC has four giant detectors designed to probe new [[dimension]]s, search for the [[Higgs Boson]] (the so called "God Particle", which gives matter and other [[boson]]s mass) and hypothetically to investigate what the [[universe]] might have been like immediately after the [[Big Bang]]. − − Legal challenges have been made against the LHC as some believe it could open a microscopic [[black hole]] that would swallow the Earth. However scientists have effectively ruled out this scenario, pointing out - among other things - that such particle collisions take place quite often naturally in the earths atmosphere.<ref>Steven B. Giddings, Michelangelo M. Mangano: [http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3381 "Astrophysical implications of hypothetical stable TeV-scale black holes"]</ref><ref>Benjamin Koch, Marcus Bleicher, Horst Stoecker: [http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3349 "Exclusion of black hole disaster scenarios at the LHC"]</ref> The LHC seeks to prove or disprove other important concepts and theories, including supersymmetry, smaller particles than quarks and electrons, and other types of exotic matter. [[Ethics|Ethical]] challenges have been raised as well, with many considering the search for the so-called "God particle" to be a sign of human hubris. An analogy can be made to the Biblical [[tower of Babel]]. − − ==References== − <references/> − − ==External Links== − [http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc LHC] Homepage at CERN. − − [[Category:Physics]]
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