A first encounter with the LHC
April 18, 2008 | 2:32 am
Katrin Voss is Germany’s new Large Hadron Collider communicator. She doesn’t come from a science background so was excited to see the accelerator and detectors up close. She shared her first experience of visiting CERN with the readers of ILC NewsLine.
I started the Open Day at the ATLAS experiment. Although I had seen quite a few photographs of ATLAS before coming to CERN, I was amazed at the sheer size of the experiment. The information that 4 000 kilometres of cable had been installed in it is almost inconceivable for someone who has never had to do with particle accelerators. Equally interesting were the visit at the ATLAS control centre and the short 3D film about the construction work at ATLAS.
David Harris
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April 18th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
When we view the LHC we are looking at a natural conceptual extension of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity. Regardless how much we learn about the universe from the machine ( we will surely learn a lot!) we can SEE how REAL Relativity IS, and how our universe is a precise reflection of its mathematical functions.
The most amazing thing of all is that the universe we observe IS relativistic effects. The “universe” IS the result of accelerations, and an electromagnetic “reading” of embedded information and complexity in a certain way, and from a particular (and unique) set of coordinates in space time, according to the equally precise laws of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity.
Amazing!