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"When it comes to atoms, language can only be used as in poetry. The poet, too, is not so concerned with describing facts as with creating images" - Niels Bohr
And when it comes to LHC (Large Hadron Collider), language can be used as in Hip-Hop. The rapper, with her percussive verses, is as concerned with describing facts as with creating images:D
欧州合同素粒子原子核研究機構は9月10日に世界最大出力の粒子加速器「大型ハドロン衝突型加速器(LHC)」を稼働させます。
Next Stop: The Fourth Dimension, With Large Hadron Collider Experiments
How did the universe come to be? ... Can science prove that there are other dimensions? ... The notion of new dimensions is stranger than science fiction, though the possibility of their existence is quite real. Prof. Etzion believes that other dimensions may exist in parallel to ours, but that -- until now -- they were too small for us to experimentally detect. “For the first time we will reach a new energy scale in our lab, the Tera electron volt regime, and we expect to discover new phenomena there,” he says. “At such high energies, we may be able to stimulate particles to jump through dimensions and can measure this by the disappearance of mass or energy, or the appearance of new excited state towers of particles.” Prof. Etzion’s research falls within a branch of theoretical physics known as string theory.
Fingers Crossed, Physicists Are Ready for Collider to Roll
The collider, 14 years and $8 billion in the making, is the most expensive scientific experiment to date. Thousands of physicists from dozens of countries have been involved in building the collider and its huge particle detectors. It is designed to accelerate protons to energies of seven trillion electron volts — seven times the energy of the next largest machine in the world, Fermilab’s Tevatron — and smash them together.... At stake is a suite of theories called the Standard Model, which explains all of particle physics to date, but which breaks down at the conditions that existed in the earliest moments of the universe. The new collider will eventually reach temperatures and energies equivalent to those at a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. There are many theories about what will happen, including the emergence of a particle known as the Higgs boson, which is hypothesized to endow other particles with mass, or the identity of the mysterious dark matter that provides the invisible scaffolding of galaxies and the cosmos. But nobody really knows for sure, which is part of the fun ... The whole world will be watching.
BBC - Big Bang Day
Radio 4 joins CERN on 10 September 2008 as scientists attempt to discover more about the origins of the Universe by recreating the aftermath of the Big Bang.
'Will the Collider be able to prove to scientists that many other dimensions exist as well as ours?'
'What are the possibilities of multiple Big Bangs creating multiple parallel universes?'
BBC > Atom: The Illusion of Reality
The final part of Professor Jim Al-Khalili's documentary series about the basic building block of our universe, the atom. He explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself, discovers how there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist and finds out that 'empty' space isn't empty at all. Al-Khalili shows how the world we think we know turns out to be a tiny sliver of an infinitely weirder universe than which we could have conceived.
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