Report: Large Hadron Collider producing tons of awesome collisions
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Hey, now, this is some great news, right? The trouble-plagued Large Hadron Collider looks to be doing a bang up job in some of its primary tasks. After breaking the energy record previously held by the Tevatron particle accelerator back at the end of November, 2009, reports are now coming in that the LHC is, in fact, producing some extremely high energy collisions.

A research team led by MIT, CERN and the KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics in Budapest, Hungary have released a report detailing findings that the collisions are producing an "unexpectedly" high number of particles called mesons, subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark. The research is considered one of the first steps in the search for rarer particles, and the elusive, theoretical Higgs Boson.

The paper, published in the Journal of High Energy Physics has led scientists to fine-tuning their predictive models for how many mesons will be found in even higher energy collisions. Hit the read link for the full, high energy news.

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that large "hardon" collider should leave that poor higgs boson alone. it sounds like prison talk. mr. collider should keep his hardon to himself.
by royulery | 4 weeks ago
Maybe these 'high-energy' particles will be the answer to the oil crunch Richard Branson predicts? Anyways, who gives a poop whether the world is gonna end in 2012? Either it won't and we will go on being the asshole species we were meant to be, or it will and what do we know now? Nothing cuz our brains are fried and our bones are melting into the next million years' worth of FUEL. in the end WE ARE ALL FUEL. 2012 or 2089.
by melynda | 4 weeks ago
Irony would say it will break down right before they 'see' the Higgs...or maybe that's just their style.
by bethopea | 4 weeks ago
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i mean, they have about a million parts.. who is responsible for maintenance?
by absworldone | 4 weeks ago
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and with the job crunch that is going on these days
=D
...oh, and people with pacemakers are SOL., find a job somewhere else.
by bethopea | 4 weeks ago

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