Dr Faustus of Modern Physics - Department of Speech, Music and ...
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Chapter 45<br />
Large Hadron Collider <strong>Physics</strong><br />
45.1 The Large Hadron Collider<br />
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest <strong>and</strong> highest-energy<br />
particle accelerator. It is expected to address some <strong>of</strong> the most fundamental<br />
questions <strong>of</strong> physics, advancing the underst<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>of</strong> the deepest laws <strong>of</strong><br />
nature.<br />
The LHC lies in a tunnel 27 kilometre in circumference, as much as 175<br />
metre beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerl<strong>and</strong>. This synchrotron<br />
is designed to collide opposing particle beams <strong>of</strong> either protons at<br />
an energy <strong>of</strong> 7 tera-electronvolt (7 TeV or 1.12 microjoules) per particle, or<br />
lead nuclei at an energy <strong>of</strong> 574 TeV per nucleus. The term hadron refers to<br />
particles composed <strong>of</strong> quarks.<br />
45.2 Time Machine <strong>and</strong> Higgs Boson<br />
The V<strong>and</strong>erbilt Universisty announces bravley in March 2010 the<br />
• Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could be world’s first time machine capable<br />
<strong>of</strong> causing matter to travel backwards in time.<br />
• Our theory is a long shot, but it doesn’t violate any laws <strong>of</strong> physics or<br />
experimental constraints, says physics pr<strong>of</strong>essor at V<strong>and</strong>erbilt University,<br />
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