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The Big Bang - How did our universe come to be the way it is?
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My daughter came home from school today with tales of the end of the world looming... Clearly this required further investigation!
First stop- the internet... It became very clear that this was not simply a rumour, but based on the imminent launch of an amazing experiment that has long been planned by scientists from across the world. The big question which they are attempting to answer is: 'How did our universe come to be the way it is?' We have all heard that The Universe started with a Big Bang – but even scientists don’t fully understand how or why it developed the way it did. So they are trying to recreate conditions that happened immediately after the big bang, on a micro scale. The Large Hadron Collider has taken thousands of scientists around the world over 10 years to build and cost almost £3 billion ! Basically it's a 27km circular tube that whizzes atomic particles around in opposite directions until they almost reach the speed of light. Then they will bang them together and take lots of pictures. Boffins from all around the world will then look at the pictures, scratch their heads and see if anything interesting happened. The rumour about the end of the world seems to have come from the fact that it is an experiment and therefore it is not absolutely certain what the 'fallout ' will be from this recreation of the Big Bang. I am reassured from the articles that I have read that the end of the world is almost certainly not imminent! It is simply that scientists cannot completely rule out the possibility of the creation of mini black holes ( even though it is miniscule and they would anyway immediately fizzle out!) So- the big launch is scheduled for 8.30am CEST today, underground on the Franco-Swiss border. So I am assuming that if you are reading this - it has no doubt already happened, it's all gone to plan and we're all going to be just fine... unless there's a delayed reaction which the scientists also didn't think of... The scariest thing for me is that I hadn't even heard about it until today, makes me think I should get out more. If you want to find out more and even watch live footage of the LHC in action, then check out www.lhc.ac.uk For the live webcast check here: http://webcast.cern.ch/ |
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