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LHC’s little brother to beam near Moscow
Published: 21 May, 2010, 09:16
Edited: 27 May, 2010, 17:20
Russian scientists now have their very own atom collider just outside Moscow. And although it is much smaller than Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider, the ambitions of those involved are grand.
Russia's very own collider is going to be put together within the next five years. It took decades to launch the gigantic European collider, but Russian scientists say the technology and experience they already have will significantly save them time.
The future collider will involve several accelerating rings which have already been functioning in a lab near Moscow for decades.
The collider itself will be a hundred times smaller than the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, but to reach its goal it does not need the super-high speeds and energy that the LHC does.
The Large European collider is looking for the last undiscovered element of the universe – the Higgs Boson – while the Russian collider is going to be exploring that intermediate state, right after the atoms collide and before smaller particles are formed.
Looking into that transition state right after the collision could lead mankind to an alternative source of energy. Scientists say when new particles are formed a great deal of energy breaks out: if people learn more about the process they can recreate it.
“It's more powerful than all the energy sources now known to man,” says Grigory Trubnikov from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.
Now the share of renewable energy sources in Russia is less than one per cent, but if the scientists succeed, the situation may change.
“The application of the collider experiments is very wide, from medical science to energetics. What is even more interesting about such projects is that scientists often stumble upon discoveries they never expected to find,” explains Professor Aleksey Sissakian from the
Union for the Development of Science.
But it is not just a new energy source Russian scientists are looking for. They say the collider might also give some answers as to how the universe began.
The collider is going to cost around $200 million, many times cheaper than its European brother, but the discoveries it may bring could be of no less value.
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There is a cheaper method if you want to know about our planet.It is the old testament .P.S So far all our space exploration has come to a mind bloggling statement ,they are dead planets.I could have told them that for free.Probably the other discovery space is empty,it has the same content as our politicans and media and broadcasting heads ,Empty.
Looking in the old testament to find out about the creation of the universe is like watching Fox news to find out about Stalin, or going to a meeting of the Klu Klux Klan to learn about African Americans. This particle accelerator will enable science to move forward. It is a good thing.