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Critical Thinking

Conundrums of this decade.

The fabric of Space is stretching at an accelerating pace, the bigger it gets the faster it stretches. Why is space not stretching at a constant rate?

What is holding galaxies together, with the mass that has been calculated your milky way should be falling apart leaving our solar system alone in the void?

What is the missing element holding atoms together?

These are some of the questions that the Large Hedron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland is hoping to answer.
By smashing neutrons at the speed of light (or as near as) into their constituent pieces and seeing (if detectable) what the smallest elements are, how they break apart and what they look like before they recombine into particles we are familiar with.


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Stay tuned to CERN to see if we can understand what time/space, matter, energy, gravity and electromagnetic forces are made from. Click here for the LHC.

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Standard Model of Elementary Particles

Video below is the Latest from CERN

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at Beyond Belief 2007
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The Scientific Method

Who are the Blackmagicians?

They are the ones in white coats digging into the matter of things.

Unlike Whitemagicians who call upon invisible gods not of this universe, Blackmagicians like the alchemists of old can predict, invent, create and gain knowledge of this universe (and maybe others).

They have already converted chemistry into physics, what other marvels await these bespectacled wild haired demons to uncover?

LHC DETECTORS

ATLAS - one of two so-called general purpose detectors. Atlas will be used to look for signs of new physics, including the origins of mass and extra dimensions

CMS - the second general purpose detector will, like ATLAS, hunt for the Higgs boson and look for clues to the nature of dark matter

ALICE - will study a "liquid" form of matter called quark-gluon plasma that existed shortly after the Big Bang

LHCb - Equal amounts of matter and anti-matter were created in the Big Bang. LHCb will try to investigate what happened to the "missing" anti-matter

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