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| Jammu flies Indian flag at CERN | | | | It is a matter of pride that the sons and daughter of the soil of Jammu had a role in the world’s most expensive and unique test of Physics. Under the Alps near Geneva the biggest man-made machine has started probing the mysteries of matter and some brilliant minds, whose extension the machine is, will meditate on the results in the coming years. It is the mankind’s biggest collective effort to understand the origin and working of the universe and the $ 8 billion enterprise is expected to provide answers to the most vexatious questions raised by physicists and cosmologists for long. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is a 27-km circular underground tunnel, 4.3 km in radius, was built and the most sophisticated machine designed on earth installed through the combined efforts of many countries over many years. The machine will investigate the smallest things in the universe, things so small and elusive that there are doubts even about their existence. Modern physics has a number of Holy Grails — the hypothetical Higgs boson or God particle, which is supposed to account for the mass of all particles that make up matter, the dark energy that pushes the universe outward, the dark matter that holds it together, anti-matter which is the mirror image of matter and the strings proposed by arcane theories as accounting for other dimensions that we are unaware of. THe LHC will pursue these for proof and substantiation. It would make subatomic particles clash at near speed of light to create conditions that existed in the baby universe within a fraction of the second after the BIg Bang which created all things big and small 13.7 billions of years ago. In short it is an attempt to recreate the universe in its infancy and understand what made it and how it developed and where it may be going. A trip to the singular point where time and space as we know them were born. Scientists hope to formulate a theory of everything which will explain the universe and make it intelligible to us. The answers they might get might change the present human physics and mathematics which are stuck at the mysteries of the cosmos. They may also show us that we may have been asking the wrong questions, throw up new particles and ideas or open windows to other universes. Our explanations now are riddled with contradictions. It is said that the working of the universe has not just strained imagination but is unimaginable. The experiments at CERN may help to make it a little less unimaginable. |
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