ATLAS
ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) is one of four detectors receiving high-energy particles from the LHC at CERN. The detector is shaped like a barrel lying on its side in a cavern about 100 metres below the ground near the … Continue reading →
Monthly Archives: October 2014
LHC – The Large Hadron Collider
The LHC is currently the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It is the main accelerator at CERN, and consists of an underground tunnel 27-kilometres long (shown here in yellow) containing superconducting magnets, cooling systems and other infrastructure surrounding … Continue reading →
CERN
CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) is an international collaboration of scientists and engineers seeking to understand the fundamental nature of matter by using the world’s largest accelerator (the Large Hadron Collider or LHC) to create beams of high-energy particles travelling … Continue reading →
Femmilie – a fictional feminist organisation in Geneva featured in Time Crystal
As revealed in Volume 2 of Time Crystal (The Time Tunnel), a group of beings from outside our Universe, called Argolaths, are trying to reach Earth in order to mate with human women. They hope thereby to create a hybrid … Continue reading →
Risks of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN
The “Review of the Safety of LHC Collisions” by the LHC Safety Assessment Group, 2008, (see references below) studied the possible production at the LHC of hypothetical objects such as vacuum bubbles, magnetic monopoles, microscopic black holes and strangelets, and … Continue reading →