The cold depths of space, at the French-Swiss border
July 22nd, 2008 by Michael SmythThe Large Hadron Collider located on the French-Swiss border is the world’s largest scientific experiment.
Scientists working for CERN, the corporation undertaking this experiment have managed to cool the apparatus near absolute zero.
The aim of the experiment is to simulate and recreate the conditions of deep space, i.e. at the moment of creation.
The reason for the extremely low temperatures is that, in deep space it is obviously very cold, so to get an accurate simulation, these conditions need to be recreated.
The machine will shortly begin firing particles at close to the speed of light, when these particles collide, a new particle should be created, and this will be called the ‘God particle’.
The problem is, scientists are unsure how this particle will behave. Some say it will create a black hole!!
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