ATLAS detector at CERN's LHC

[derekmcd]

<p>This thing is a monster.&nbsp; It is the largest of the 6 that will be in place.</p><p><font size="3">This Link</font> is a pretty neat look at it.&nbsp; Check out the 'multimedia' link... there are several very cool time lapse videos of it being assembled along with many other animated videos explaining various things.&nbsp; There is also a neat 'virtual tour' link you can take that really gives a sense of scale.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Quite an impressive feat of human technology and engineering.&nbsp; I think the entire LHC facility will quickly achieve status as one of the modnern 'wonders of the world'.&nbsp; It is a technological and engineering feat that rivals the space program... </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>only on a smaller scale... </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>literally. <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/6/2/d6ec3e78-0845-4d78-92b0-4fa61cd6e7c5.Medium.gif" alt="" /><br />&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div> </div><br /><div><span style="color:#0000ff" class="Apple-style-span">"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing." - Homer Simpson</span></div> </div>

 

[nec208]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>This thing is a monster.&nbsp; It is the largest of the 6 that will be in place.This Link is a pretty neat look at it.&nbsp; Check out the 'multimedia' link... there are several very cool time lapse videos of it being assembled along with many other animated videos explaining various things.&nbsp; There is also a neat 'virtual tour' link you can take that really gives a sense of scale.&nbsp;&nbsp;Quite an impressive feat of human technology and engineering.&nbsp; I think the entire LHC facility will quickly achieve status as one of the modnern 'wonders of the world'.&nbsp; It is a technological and engineering feat that rivals the space program... &nbsp;&nbsp;only on a smaller scale... &nbsp;literally. &nbsp; <br />Posted by derekmcd</DIV></p><p>I'm&nbsp;sorry I don't&nbsp; understand what it is about.<br /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[derekmcd]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>I'm&nbsp;sorry I don't&nbsp; understand what it is about. <br /> Posted by nec208</DIV></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In a nutshell... The ATLAS detector will measure results from the Large Hadron Collider smashing atoms/particles into a medium at near the speed of light.&nbsp; The remnants of the collision will travel through the detector and scientist are hopeful they will find new, smaller particles. </p><p>Loads of good info in the link I provided above. </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div> </div><br /><div><span style="color:#0000ff" class="Apple-style-span">"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing." - Homer Simpson</span></div> </div>

 

[centsworth_II]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><font color="#333333">...scientist are hopeful they will find new, smaller particles....<br /> Posted by derekmcd</font></DIV></p><p>I don't know if anyone expects, or hopes, to find any new low mass -- or mass-less -- particles, but I get the feeling that most of the excitement is based on the possibility of finding particles more massive than can be created at currently available energies.&nbsp; I don't know how this relates to size.&nbsp; Maybe all fundamental particles have no physical size, no matter what their mass is.</p><p>I don't have a very firm grasp on any of this, but am excitedly awaiting to see how physicists will reconcile LHC experimental results with current theories.&nbsp; The next ten years should be very interesting!&nbsp; I wander what the soonest is that we could expect some exciting news of new particle physics discoveries.</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[derekmcd]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>I don't know if anyone expects, or hopes, to find any new low mass -- or mass-less -- particles, but I get the feeling that most of the excitement is based on the possibility of finding particles more massive than can be created at currently available energies.</p><p>Posted by centsworth_II</DIV></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You, Sir, are indeed correct.&nbsp; </p><p>I tried to find a way to justify using 'smaller' without invoking axions and gravitons, but couldn't.</p><p>Thanks for bringing that up... forced me to do some research and understand the process a bit better.&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div> </div><br /><div><span style="color:#0000ff" class="Apple-style-span">"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing." - Homer Simpson</span></div> </div>