Journal #3, September 14

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g5nGPtmoUVIJDgehVJ_snD6vDA6gD9342FUG0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator (extra research)\

Massive particle collider passes its first key tests, that rights. The particle colliders that you see in movies and in video games has been made and is being tested. It is the world's largest and its first test was last Wednesday in a 17- mile underground ring near Geneva, Switzerland. Scientists fired the Large Hadron Collider around 10:30 a.m. and it did a complete lap. The collider cost around $3.8 billion and it was described as the biggest physics experiment in history and the purpose of this collider is to try to recreate the conditions just after the so-called Big Bang. The project leader Lyn Evans has been working on this project since its inception in 1984 and his team's work has final paid off. Now since they know that it works they will start experimenting with the collider to recreate the Big Bang in a few months. The collider is designed to sent a protons beam to the speed of light, which is close to 11,000 times a second around the 17 mile tunnel. The article said the project organized by the 20 European member nations of CERN has attracted researchers from 80 nations. Some 1,200 are from the United States, an observer country that contributed $531 million. Japan is also an observer and it is a major contributor. There are also a couple concerns about the collider when they do the main experiment, when the particles do collide there is a possible that it can create a thing we know as a black hole. A black hole sucks particles into it and its' gravity is so strong that it can pull in planets and stars or another possibility is that it makes a gateway to another dimension. This is an unknown experiment that they will be conducting and the possibilities of things that could go wrong are a lot, but they are trying to approach every step of the experiments very carefully. My thoughts on the article are they that crazy or that smart to do so. I have heard some things about particle accelerator but that has been in fiction stories and games. I would never have thought that scientist has actually created it. If they do pull the collider off, I believe that it will have a very big impact on society and science itself. The things that they are trying to pull off is in a feat itself, trying to recreate conditions from the Big Bang. But because of my beliefs I do not believe in the Big Bang, so I do not think that it will work the way they want it to. I am still curious to see what well happen when they do attempt the experiment and hopefully it does not create a black hole and probably not another dimension.