Large Hadron Collider - LHC ( The Time Machine )

The Most Complicated Thing Created By Humans

The world is continuously progressing ahead fighting Impossibility and inventing machines which can break all time barriers. Well, yes you understood it right. It is world's most powerful particle accelerator capable of distorting both space and time. It is known as the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Created after 20 years of work in progress by a team of 7,000 physicists from more than 80 nations, this machine is 27 kilometers in circumference, 175 meters underground.

The LHC was built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries, as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as deep as 175 metres (574 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.

Purpose

Physicists hope that the LHC will help answer some of the fundamental open questions in physics. concerning the basic laws governing the interactions and forces among the elementary objects.

the deep structure of space and time, and in particular the interrelation between quantum mechanics and general relativity.

where current theories and knowledge are unclear or break down altogether. Data are also needed from high energy particle experiments to suggest which versions of current scientific models are more likely to be correct .

In particular to choose between the Standard Model and Higgsless models and to validate their predictions and allow further theoretical development.

Many theorists expect new physics beyond the Standard Model to emerge at the TeV energy level, as the Standard Model appears to be unsatisfactory. Issues possibly to be explored by LHC collisions .

Cost


                         With a budget of 7.5 billion euros (approx. $9bn or £6.19bn as of Jun 2010),

the LHC is one of the most expensive scientific instruments ever built.

                        The total cost of the project is expected to be of the order of 4.6bn Swiss francs (approx. $4.4bn, €3.1bn, or £2.8bn as of Jan 2010) for the accelerator and SFr 1.16bn (approx. $1.1bn, €0.8bn, or £0.7bn as of Jan 2010) for the CERN contribution to the experiments

Computing resources

                           Data produced by LHC, as well as LHC-related simulation, was estimated at approximately 15 petabytes per year (max throughput while running not stated).

                          The LHC Computing Grid was constructed to handle the massive amounts of data produced. It incorporated both private fiber optic cable links and existing high-speed portions of the public Internet, enabling data transfer from CERN to academic institutions around the world.

                          The Open Science Grid is used as the primary infrastructure in the United States, and also as part of an interoperable federation with the LHC Computing Grid.

Area

Each tunnel of this great machine is big enough to run a train through it. On the other hand, temperatures generated in this machine are more than 1000000 times hotter than those at the sun’s core. But the variation is so huge that superconducting magnets are cooled to a temperature colder than in deep space. This machine is housed in huge caverns and it runs 17 miles across the border of two countries. One can now imagine its enormous size!

 

According to the Discovery Magazine, the collisions at LHC could spray out strange new kinds of matter, unfurl hidden dimensions of space and even generate tiny glowing reenactments of the birth of the universe.