As you all know, the much awaited hadron collider is scheduled to be switched on by the scientists on the Franco-Swiss border at 12.30 a.m. on Wednesday with a purpose to find the missing links in the Standard Model of physics, a theory describing three of the four known fundamental interactions among the elementary particles. The interaction that has eluded the Standard Model is gravity.
The LHC is a 17-mile underground ring intended to smash opposing beams of 7 TeV protons into each other, in an attempt to recreate the after-effects of the „Big Bang.” Built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the highest-energy particle accelerator is contained in a circular tunnel with a circumference of 27 km at a depth ranging from 50 to 175 m underground.
The event taking place tomorrow has given raise to many a heated debate on the impact that switching the LHC on will have on our planet. While some deem Wednesday as being the *death day*, others say it will be a huge step towards unlocking the mysteries of the Universe, which is in no way to cause any damage to the Earth. And some, namely a pair of Russian scientists, think that the LHC will be the first time machine and expect creatures from the future to visit our planet after it begins its mission.
The data from the experiment will be used to solve the mysteries surrounding concepts such as dark matter, dark energy, and, most importantly, Higgs Boson. The latter, known as the “God Particle,” is the only particle that the Standard Model didn’t observe, although it has predicted it. The “Higgs boson” could explain how massless particles manage to construct mass in matter.
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