10 million explosions in the planet's largest machine

Scientists at the European Center for Atomic Research (CERN) have created 10 million explosions in a large particle accelerator in a week.

Experts work in large particle accelerators.Photo: hackedgadgets.com.

Reuters quoted James Gillies, a CERN spokesperson, saying the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is working well. This is a machine designed to create a direct collision between elementary particles with tremendous kinetic energy in a few percent of a second.

'Everything is going smoothly. We are collecting a large amount of data for labs around the world to analyze , ' Gillies said.

LHC monitoring scientists say, the machine is generating 100 collisions per second - doubling from the previous week. The particles were brought into the machine and collided with each other under the voltage of 7 TeV (ie 7 trillion V) on March 30. Experts say this is a great achievement in the process of studying the formation of the universe.

According to Reuters, collisions in the LHC are like Big Bangs - the birth of the universe 13.7 billion years ago - but small. By studying the behavior of elementary particles after colliding, physicists hope they will find the secrets of the universe - like the formation of dark matter, why matter has mass. , the number of dimensions in the universe. Explosions in the LHC also provide additional data for experts to find out whether ideas that only appear in fantasy films - like the existence of a universe - have a scientific basis.

The large particle accelerator - made by CERN - is located in a 27 km tunnel beneath the ground at the French-Swiss border. The project is provided with funding and fabrication with the participation of more than 10,000 physicists from more than 100 countries and hundreds of universities and laboratories around the world. The first beams of particles were introduced into the machine on September 10, 2008, but scientists had to wait about 6-8 weeks to record the first large energy collisions.