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1. What would a particle accelerator do?
2. What is a particle accelerator called?
3. What is the God particle and what does it do?
4. Can a particle accelerator give you superpowers?
5. Can a supercollider create a black hole?
6. Is it legal to build a particle accelerator?
7. Can CERN create a black hole?
8. Where is the collider?
9. Is there a super collider in the United States?
10. What did Stephen Hawking say about the God particle?
11. What does the God particle prove?
12. How fast is a tachyon?
13. What would happen if I put my head in a particle accelerator?
14. What would happen if you stuck your hand in a particle accelerator?
15. What if LHC exploded?

What would a particle accelerator do?

A particle accelerator is a special machine that speeds up charged particles and channels them into a beam. When used in research, the beam hits the target and scientists gather information about atoms, molecules, and the laws of physics.

What is a particle accelerator called?

A variation commonly used for particle physics research is a collider, also called a storage ring collider. Two circular synchrotrons are built in close proximity – usually on top of each other and using the same magnets (which are then of more complicated design to accommodate both beam tubes).

What is the God particle and what does it do?

In 2012, scientists confirmed the detection of the long-sought Higgs boson, also known by its nickname the "God particle," at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator on the planet. This particle helps give mass to all elementary particles that have mass, such as electrons and protons.

Can a particle accelerator give you superpowers?

Point is, no, particle accelerators won't give you superpowers. Nothing will give a person superpowers (except money for a Batman-like superhero). Particle accelerators are just the latest in a long history of convenient explanations to the general public for how the impossible happened.

Can a supercollider create a black hole?

The first question is whether a black hole can even be created at the LHC. Alas, when looking at all of the scientific evidence and using our most modern understanding of the laws of the universe, there is no way that the LHC can make a black hole. Gravity is simply too weak for this to occur.

Is it legal to build a particle accelerator?

Since it is legal about everywhere to own or build electric pocket lighters, it is legal to own or build a particle accelerators. Most countries have limits on the energy and the intensity of the beam. If you exceed any of these limits you need a special permit from the government.

Can CERN create a black hole?

The LHC will not generate black holes in the cosmological sense. However, some theories suggest that the formation of tiny 'quantum' black holes may be possible. The observation of such an event would be thrilling in terms of our understanding of the Universe; and would be perfectly safe.

Where is the collider?

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. The accelerator sits in a tunnel 100 metres underground at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.

Is there a super collider in the United States?

Construction began in 1991 on what would have been the world's largest particle accelerator near the town of Waxahachie, Texas. ... The estimated circumference of the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was going to be 87.1 km.

What did Stephen Hawking say about the God particle?

The elusive 'God particle' discovered by scientists in 2012 has the potential to destroy the universe, famed British physicist Stephen Hawking has warned. According to Hawking, 72, at very high energy levels the Higgs boson, which gives shape and size to everything that exists, could become unstable.

What does the God particle prove?

The media calls the Higgs boson the God particle because, according to the theory laid out by Scottish physicist Peter Higgs and others in 1964, it's the physical proof of an invisible, universe-wide field that gave mass to all matter right after the Big Bang, forcing particles to coalesce into stars, planets, and ...

How fast is a tachyon?

One of the most intriguing entities in relativity theory are tachyons. They are hypothetical particles that travel faster than light. They are distinguished from "bradyons," particles that travel at less than the speed of light.

What would happen if I put my head in a particle accelerator?

So the short answer is that sticking your head inside a particle accelerator should cause a burn hole straight through your skull. Or, if you're lucky like Bugorski was, you'll skip the head hole and just have to deal with a slew of other health problems.

What would happen if you stuck your hand in a particle accelerator?

The danger is the energy. ... So instead of all the energy going into your body, the beam would glance off of atoms in your body, causing the beam to widen, and most of the energy would be deposited in whatever's behind you (the accelerator only holds a very thin beam, so any widening will cause the beam to hit the walls).

What if LHC exploded?

Originally Answered: What would happen if the Hadron Collider exploded? It would not explode. There is a lot of energy stored in the magnets, and the beam, but they have already failed once, and as someone else pointed out, it just blew a lot of fuses. The biggest danger is to the equipment.