Great day-dreamer --- In [email protected], "Jusfiq" <kesayangan.al...@...> wrote: > > > Masih ada orang berotak anjing yang mau > melahap saja omong kosong yang ada di Bible dan al-Mushaf yang ngibul bilang > alam semesta ini diciptakan oleh tuhan atau Allah yang nota bene tidk > berbukti ada? > > -- > > CNN.com > Powered by > > Epic collision brings scientists closer to grasping universe's origins > By the CNN Wire Staff > STORY HIGHLIGHTS > > * Lead ions have collided for the first time inside a massive machine in > Europe > * The collision is part of an experiment aiming to recreate post-Big Bang > conditions > * Scientists are working with basic elements to understand how atoms came > together > > RELATED TOPICS > > * Large Hadron Collider > * Science and Technology > > (CNN) -- Scientists say they are a step closer to recreating the conditions at > the birth of the universe and to understanding life as we know it, after the > successful collision of heavy lead ions in a massive machine in Europe. > > This week, for the first time, ions were smashed together inside the Large > Hadron Collider along the French and Swiss border. Until now, only protons had > been collided in the experiment. > > The tiny particles' lightning-fast collision promised to produce temperatures > up > to 100,000 times hotter than the sun, said Michael Tuts, a professor in > experimental high-energy physics at New York's Columbia University and one of > hundreds of scientists involved in the project. > > "What we're doing is reproducing the conditions that existed at the very early > universe, a few millionths of a second after the Big Bang," said Tuts, > referencing the cosmic explosion that many scientists believe spawned the > universe from one minuscule particle. > > ALICE, an acronym for A Large Ion Collider Experiment, is run through the > European Laboratory for Nuclear Research and involves physicists, engineers > and > technicians from around the world. Many of these scientists will examine the > aftereffects of this latest ion collision as they try to step back further to > the universe's emergence billions of years ago. > > The lead ion, Tuts explained, is a lead atom that does not contain electrons > -- > thus, is more likely reflective of what matter existed in the millionths of a > second after the Big Bang. By combining more and more basic elements, > scientists > hope to better understand how various particles came together to create the > modern-day universe and all it contains. > > "We hope to understand how we're put together, how these (basic) constituents > go > on to make protons and neutrons, which in turn go on to make the atoms that > you > and I are made of," Tuts told CNN. > > Microseconds after the Big Bang, there was a "hot soup" of particles called > quarks and gluons at a temperature of around 2 trillion degrees above absolute > zero, John Harris, professor of physics at Yale University, said last year. > > Although they have never been directly seen, these particles are theoretically > the building blocks of the bigger particles -- protons, neutrons and electrons > -- that form the universe as we know it. > > > Links referenced within this article > > Large Hadron Collider > http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/Large_Hadron_Collider > Science and Technology > http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/Science_and_Technology > > > Find this article at: > http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11/08/switzerland.nuclear.collider/inde\ > x.html?hpt=C2 > > Click Here to Print > SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close > Uncheck the box to remove the list of links referenced in the article. > > > © 2008 Cable News Network. >
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