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Pros And Cons Of The Large Hadron Collider

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The CERN Large Hadron Collider (Or LHC) is a particle accelerator – the largest and most powerful accelerator in the world right now. Located near Geneva, Switzerland, the Large Hadron Collider’s mission is to force particle collisions so that they can be observed. The Large Hadron Collider is twenty-seven kilometres in circumference, and is also located partly in France.
There are four main parts to the Large Hadron Collider - LHCb, ALICE, CMS, and ATLAS. LHCb (LHC-beauty) looks for antimatter, ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) collides ions, and CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) and ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) look for new particles.
Since the Large Hadron Collider’s creation, people all over have been talking about how it will bring …show more content…

After all, over ten thousand scientists worked on the project, and no sane person would authorise the use of something that could have such large negative effects.
Strangelets are hypothetical quark matter. Theoretically, these particles can change from strange matter to ordinary matter in a thousand-millionth of a second. Conversely, it’s also hypothesised that strangelets may also change regular matter into strange matter. It’s believed that a chain reaction will set off and the Earth as a whole will become a lump of strange matter. It’s described by Sir Martin Rees, an Astronomer from Britain, as “an inert hyperdense …show more content…

Since The Large Hadron Collider’s beams have more energy than the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider’s, it’s less likely that it’ll form strangelets. The temperature is too high for strange matter to stick together. CERN likens this to how ice can’t form in hot water.
Black holes, if it is possible that they could be created at the Large Hadron Collider, would be created from proton collisions. These collisions wouldn’t have enough energy to produce a black hole large enough to swallow up the Earth, so a microscopic black hole would be created.
Microscopic black holes are theorised to decay immediately, because they are too unstable, and thus have no time to swallow any matter.
It’s also speculated by some that proton collisions will set of a fusion reaction. Fusion reactions are what causes hydrogen to turn into helium inside of our sun.
A fusion reaction at the Large Hadron Collider is not completely impossible, but is unlikely. Even if it does happen, then it’ll likely only be the formation of deuterium.
The purpose of the Large Hadron Collider is to force naturally occurring reactions so that they can be observed, and theories - like the Higgs Boson - can be

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