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Over 700 Russian scientists part of Large Hadron Collider project
RIA Novosti
Monday, Sept 8, 2008
The development of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, has involved over 700 Russian physicists from 12 research institutes, a project coordinator said Monday.
The $5.8 billion international project, which will be officially unveiled on October 21 at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by its French initials CERN, has involved more than 2,000 physicists from hundreds of universities and laboratories in 34 countries since 1984.
“The project involved a total of 700 people [physicists from Russia] from 12 institutes,” said Viktor Savrin, deputy director of the Research Institute of Nuclear Physics at Moscow State University.
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Only several dozen Russian researchers reside at CERN, but working visits mean there could be at any one time around 200 Russian researchers at the center.
Back in 2000, then CERN director Roger Cashmore said “we would not have been able to create the LHC without them [the Russians].”
Savrin said the project had given a substantial boost to 30 manufacturers which were also involved. The navy’s Baltic Fleet even provided unused brass.
“Russia received orders totaling $120 million from CERN to build the detectors and the accelerator,” the researcher said.
According to Savrin, Russia also provided around 5% of funding for detectors and some 3% of all spending on the accelerator.
The accelerator complex, 27 kilometers in circumference, sits in a subterranean tunnel about one hundred meters below the Franco-Swiss border, near Geneva, Switzerland.
Once it is up to speed, it is hoped the collider will produce the so-called Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and “missing links” in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.
Ahead of the first test to run a proton beam along the entire length of the collider’s ring to be held Wednesday, the LHC Russian coordinator said that unless the Higgs boson is found, no larger device would ever be built.
“I do not think it is realistic to build a larger accelerator on a similar scheme, nobody is likely to venture to do that,” Savrin said.
Some theorists and members of the general public have long voiced fears that microscopic black holes may appear as a result of the launch of the LHC, capturing surrounding matter and ultimately leading to the destruction of the entire planet.
However, scientists have consistently dismissed these allegations as “ridiculous.”
“Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on,” Lyn Evans, the head of the project at CERN, said in June.
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September 8th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Hey and if it does mess up and form an all consuming vortex that begins to turn the universe inside out , who will know ?
September 8th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
“the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator”
Let me repeat this…
“the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator”
this is not the Universe’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator…
Compared to other highly energetic events out there in the universe, this will be more of a wet firecracker. Sure it is a lot of energy on our 110 V scale but it is nothing to be scared about.
If a little atom smashing would create holes in the fabric of the universe, then the hole damn place would be a giant hole.
September 8th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Dear current resident,
There is absolutely no need fret about an “all consuming vortex that turns the universe inside out”.
The planet earth is way below Chandrasekhar’s limit. (8 suns)
In the worst case scenario, our planet would only have enough mass to become a white dwarf and this new white dwarf would just continue its journey around (our current) sun, in the very orbit now occupied by our planet earth.
Of course we wouldnt want to do this because…
if intelligent beings come to visit our planet one day…they would end up finding a (strangely small) white dwarf in an orbit that would normally be occupied only by rocky planets, with electronic satellites and a moon, and they will discover the lunar landers and rovers and the little American flags and all…and will figure out what happened! …and they will shake their heads and probably laugh at us!
…we will be the laughing stock of the local interstellar neighborhood!
…which answers your question “who will know?”
September 9th, 2008 at 6:09 am
I dont think the LHC will swallow up the world. I dont think they would do something like that, yet. Anyway, in 5 billions years it is projected that the sun will expand and swallow all the inner planets in our solar system. So by then we have better invented the Star Trek warp technology to be able to leave this Prison Planet.
That would also be a great opportuity to leave all NWO scum past, present and future behind us on this doomed planet.
September 9th, 2008 at 8:09 am
according to Bible scriptures, this earth will be here for another 1007 years as of this writing ( 7 years of tribulation & 1000 years of the millenium)
youtube.com/goldieshome
September 9th, 2008 at 9:16 am
When it goes to full power in Oct. it will send out a calling card to the universe. Just like the rash of UFO sightings after we started lighting off Nukes in the 50’s the little men will come to investigate and hopefully they wont have a problem with it.
September 9th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I hope Demons come pouring out of some portal they open with that Damn thing. That would be great. That would give good ole boys somethings fun to hunt besides brown people and woodland creatures. Somethings Evil and Intelligent that hunts you and your families. Somethings like, “Pumpkinhead” that would be great.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:17 am
demons are good El Rukin. They give good head.
September 9th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
So Stevie, isn’t it true that the stars get very very irked when the boobs crash the protons together? I mean it hurts their ears so to speak, right?
I don’t believe in singularities. Does that make me bad? I mean it’s just so hard to believe in.
Also, is there such a thing as a hole in space? Isn’t that just lazy thinking?
September 9th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Who knows they the Russians would be able to make black holes which they can control. Place one over the USA and it has been sucked into the black hole.