The 'God Particle' discovered by scientists in 2012 has the power to destroy the universe, Professor Stephen Hawking has warned.
The physicist said that at very high energy levels the Higgs boson could become unstable, causing a "catastrophic vacuum decay" that would cause space and time to collapse.
The possibility of this happening is extremely unlikely, he stresses, as scientists do not yet have a particle accelerator large enough to create such conditions.
He makes the comments in a new book Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space, a collection of essays by scientists and astronomers.
"The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become megastable at energies above 100bn giga-electron-volts (GeV)," Professor Hawking writes.
"This could mean that the universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light.
"This could happen at any time and we wouldn't see it coming."
Kicking the world’s largest machine into overdrive is turning out to
be harder than expected. Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider at
CERN, near Geneva in Switzerland, say that plans to run their physics
experiments at higher energies are likely to be delayed until next year.
The LHC was rebooted in April,
after a two-year shutdown to upgrade the machine. In the second run, it
should be able to gather physics data at energies of 13
teraelectronvolts, the highest-energy collisions of particle beams ever.
But researchers in charge of getting it up and running again, who this
week presented the first report on the LHC’s performance at a conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, have revealed that things haven’t quite gone as planned.
“The process is slightly slower than we would have hoped,” says Paul
Collier, the LHC’s head of beams. Clouds of electrons created by ionised
gas in the beam chamber and microscopic dust particles – playfully
known as unidentified falling objects, or UFOs – are interrupting the
beams and making it harder to get the LHC running consistently.
These effects were present in the LHC’s previous run, but the higher
energies, plus efforts to produce more frequent collisions by bunching
particles in the beam closer together, make them a larger problem than
before.
Collier says the team had anticipated such potential issues, but they
have taken some time to deal with. He compares it to driving a car at
high speed: although you might be fine at 50 kilometres per hour, things
start rattling when you reach 150 kph. “Everything is much closer to
the limits of what the equipment can do, so the machine is less
forgiving,” he says.
Reboot hitch
It’s not the first problem this year: a short circuit in March
delayed the reboot. The team is only a few weeks behind schedule in
preparing beams for the LHC’s various experiments. But because the
quality of the beam gets better and more stable the longer it runs,
there won’t be time this year to reach peak physics. “Each stage is
vastly superior to everything that happens before it, so it’s only
towards the end of this process that you’re really mass-producing data,”
says Collier.
The researchers now expect to only reach 3 inverse femtobarns (3 fb-1) – the esoteric measurement of beam quality – this year, down from a planned 10. To put this in context, the long-sought Higgs boson was discovered after the LHC reached 12 fb-1.
But they are still on target to reach 30 fb-1 next year,
once they understand how to handle their souped-up collider. “We’re
learning an awful lot that will help us run the machine even better,”
says Collier. “I have good hopes for 2016.”
Great opera dance preformed by its physicist,inside CERN before firing up in March/April,2015.
Called Symmetry. I think you get a picture of what
they are looking for . ..... Pow Wow Ritual Dancer's are better, it brings rain not portals.
Dancing
with Shiva !Dr. Stephen Hawking recently warned that the reactivation
in March ofCERN’slarge hadron collidercould pose grave dangers to our
planet…the ultimate reality check we are warned. Hawkinghas come
straight out and said the ‘God particle’ found by CERN “could destroy
the universe” leaving time and space collapsed . IsCERN the most
dangerous thing in the cosmos that could lead to the ultimate
destruction of theEarthand the entire universe? Recent developments
prove to us the scientific community is no longer able to explain
‘reality’ without looking at the ‘supernatural’. Will we soon learn CERNis really the ‘ultimatestargate’ and one of the gate-keepersmost
closelyguarded secrets? Will this be the way man attempts to break the
ultimate ‘God barrier’, an attempt to encounter demi-God’sin an all-out
rush towards the destruction of all creation? We understand they won’t
be releasing the secrets until they’re prepared to release them.
Very
sad news. ISIS beheaded a well known and well-loved archaeologist today
in the Syrian city of Palmyra, then hung his body on one of the columns
the archeologist had renovated in the center of the square. Khaled Asaad
had dedicated most of his life to the preservation of the ancient city
of Palmyra. The 82-year-old scholar worked for over 50 years as head of
antiquities in Palmyra. Asaad had been
kidnapped by ISIS and interrogated for over a month (i.e. tortured). One
report said: "Just imagine that such a scholar who gave such memorable
services to the place and to history would be beheaded and that his
corpse still hangs from one of the ancient columns in the center of a
square in ancient Palmyra."
Since at least 27 May 2015, Palmyra's theatre
was used as a place of public executions of ISIL opponents. A video
released by ISIL shows the killing of 20 prisoners at the hands of
teenaged male executioners, watched by hundreds of men and boys.[386] On 18 August 2015, Palmyra's 83 years old retired antiquities chief Khaled al-Asaad
was beheaded by ISIL after being tortured for a month to get
information about the city and its treasures; al-Asaad refused to give
any information to his captors.[387]
Team of Scientists Create Cloned Glow-In-The-Dark Rabbits,Cats, Sheep,Monkeys,Mice
So Run, rabbit, run
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down, it's time to dig another one
For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race toward an early grave.
Soyou think you know it all But that's just the arrogance of youth I've been there and I've done it, baby I'm tellin' you the truth Your Momma was a tear away I used to think I knew it all Thought I could play the game and not get played, no But then the fall.
Don't you go pull a fast one I used to be an awful rascal Do you think you invented being bad? I used to be a real rough-hewn But had to become a tough one Do you think you invented being bad? [repeat]
I bet you think I look respectable You should've seen me in my prime You'd have thought that I was headed for, oh yeah I life of crime. I bet you think that you're the clever one, clever one The one that got away. Well, I've seen them come and seen them go, oh yeah But I have it made.
I'm as sweet as I can be I've earned respectability. Do you know I have a history? You won't get to pull the wool over my eyes Fool, if you think you'll make a fool of me
Nothing you do remotely new. It all been done, when I was young In younger days I went astray You mighta say, it's all a haze
It's all been done, your brand new craze It all begun at Momma's place
Don't you go pull a fast one I used to be an awful rascal Do you think you invented being bad? I used to be a real rough-hewn But had to become a tough one Do you think you invented being bad? [repeat]
No one knows at what Likelihood Black Holes will be produced in June at CERN Posted by Otto E. Rössler in categories: existential risks, particle physics
But
if so, it means the end of earth soon. This frequently published result
is contradicted by no one in physics. The lobby just bets on the media
remaining quiet.
It
is ironic that so many physicists take their children hostage. This is
because the media do not ask them why they are not afraid. For then they
would start to stutter and their children would begin to ask questions.
Even Stephen Hawking could no longer afford to skirt the issue.
The
ultimate reason, of course, is Einstein. He alone can help. The
“happiest thought of my life,” as he always said, has a further
consequence (c-global). Ask your teachers about it. You will learn they
have no idea. This is at the root of the problem: irrational dogmatism.
Worse to date than in the middle ages because the consequences do not
hurt a minority of women: this time around everyone is the victim.
The
poor witches on the stakes probably foresaw it all since no one else
had a closer look at the nature of human society. So only in Auschwitz
later on, after the doors were closed. Please, do change your attitude,
poor consensus-based society without a heart: Why not show the world
that you love your children, my dear physicist colleagues? Do stand the
trial that you are under in the face of a watching globe!
In
June it might already be too late. So please, forgive me the urgency of
my tone. Old men sometimes behave like this if no one is able to find
the so vitally needed counter-information. None of my colleagues who
unlike my friends John Wheeler and Bryce DeWitt are still alive dares
say a word. If I were younger, I would probably understand their
cowardice.
On
the other hand, you see: It is normal that scientists do not care about
the results of others. Max Planck said that it takes 30 years. Problem
is only that we do not have those 30 years for once.
Why NOT have the UN or a single good journalist of high standing investigate? It costs nothing, after all. And if a danger is infinite, taking it easy is somehow not justified, right?
LHC restart: 'Experimental' current blast fixes glitch
By Jonathan WebbScience reporter, BBC News
The short circuit delaying the
restart of the Large Hadron Collider has been fixed, after a blast of
high current melted the metal particle responsible.
It is now likely that the LHC will see beams of protons racing around its 27km circumference early next week. The
massive machine's second run, after a two-year refit, had faced a delay
of up to several weeks after the glitch was discovered ten days ago. But now only much more routine tests remain to be completed. Cern, the European organisation for nuclear research, announcedon Tuesday that Run Two of the collider was "back on track".
The short circuit was caused by a tiny piece of metal
debris, which found its way into the pipes and became lodged in the
wiring of one of the LHC's powerful electromagnets. A short
caused by dust or debris is a common enough fault, but one which could
have taken weeks to fix if the team had needed to warm the magnet up
from its operating temperature of nearly -273C (absolute zero).
'Like blowing a fuse'
The mercifully rapid repair was something of an experiment, according to the head of Cern's beams department, Dr Paul Collier. After
his team pinpointed the location of the fault - to within centimetres -
using electrical signals, they "had a number of methods to explore", Dr
Collier told BBC News. One would have been to hose down the area
with helium gas, which could be done remotely; another would have been
to open the magnet up and send in an engineer. Maybe the safest mechanism would have been to warm up the machine and
go in there and clean it out - but that would have been a very long
process," Dr Collier said. So instead they tried something new:
passing nearly 400 amps of current directly through the short circuit,
for just a few milliseconds - "in the same way you would blow a fuse". Measurements
made on Monday evening suggested the trick had worked, and this was
confirmed when high voltages were put through the circuit on Tuesday. "There's no short there now, even at high voltages," Dr Collier said, clearly pleased with the solution. "We
can't pretend this is the only fragment in the system; it could well
recur in the future. But now we've got a mechanism to deal with it
relatively quickly - much more quickly than we did this time." A
vast, subterranean "atom smasher", the LHC is famous around the world
for pushing the boundaries of physics - including the discovery of the
Higgs bosonin 2012. Its
much-anticipated reboot will slam protons together with twice as much
energy as ever before, which researchers hope will yield insights into
huge, outstanding questions like the existence of dark matterand supersymmetry. Actual
collisions will still not recommence until at least May; the first big
step is to send beams all the way around the machine's parallel pipes,
in both directions - and this is now only days away. Follow Jonathan on Twitter
The classic 60s song of the "Supremes" "I hear a Symphony" totally reconstructed from the electronica-lounge band "The 5th Galaxy Orchestra" featuring the amazing vocals of Dianna Ross from the original recording..
Visit them at Sound Cloud ~revised double take: Beautiful Tracks...
The Large Hadron Collider is being prepared for its second three-year run (Image: CERN)
The Large Hadron Collider
(LHC), the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world,
has started to get ready for its second three-year run. Cool down of
the vast machine has already begun in preparation for research to resume
early in 2015 following a long technical stop to prepare the machine
for running at almost double the energy of run 1. The last LHC magnet
interconnection was closed on 18 June 2014 and one sector of 1/8 of the
machine has already been cooled to operating temperature. The accelerator chain that supplies the LHC’s particle beams is currently starting up, with beam in the Proton Synchrotron accelerator last Wednesday for the first time since 2012.
"There is a new buzz about the laboratory and a real sense of
anticipation," says CERN Director General Rolf Heuer, speaking at a
press conference at the EuroScience Open Forum (link is external) (ESOF)
meeting in Copenhagen. "Much work has been carried out on the LHC over
the last 18 months or so, and it’s effectively a new machine, poised to
set us on the path to new discoveries."
Over the last 16 months, the LHC has been through a major programme
of maintenance and upgrading, along with the rest of CERN’s accelerator
complex, some elements of which have been in operation since 1959. Some
10,000 superconducting magnet interconnections were consolidated in order to prepare the LHC machine for running at its design energy.
"The machine is coming out of a long sleep after undergoing an
important surgical operation," says Frédérick Bordry, CERN’s Director
for Accelerators and Technology. "We are now going to wake it up very
carefully and go through many tests before colliding beams again early
next year. The objective for 2015 is to run the physics programme at 13
TeV."
The LHC experiments also took advantage of this long pause to upgrade their particle detectors. "The discovery of a Higgs boson
was just the beginning of the LHC’s journey," said senior CERN
physicist Fabiola Gianotti at the same press conference. "The increase
in energy opens the door to a whole new discovery potential."
The Higgs boson, first mentioned in a 1964 paper by Peter Higgs, is linked to the mechanism,
proposed the same year by Higgs and independently by Robert Brout and
François Englert, that gives mass to fundamental particles. During its
first three years, the LHC ran at a collision energy of 7 to 8 TeV
delivering particle collisions to four major experiments: ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb.
With the large amount of data provided by the LHC during this first
period, the ATLAS and CMS experiments were able to announce the
discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson on 4 July 2012, paving the way for the award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics to theorists François Englert and Peter Higgs.
By providing collisions at energies never reached in a particle
accelerator before, the LHC will open a new window for potential
discovery, allowing further studies on the Higgs boson and potentially
addressing unsolved mysteries such as dark matter.
The ordinary matter of which we, and everything visible in the universe
is composed, makes up just 5% of what the universe is made of. The
remainder is dark matter and energy, so the stakes for LHC run 2 are
high.
