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Gaius
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Gaius asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 9 years ago

Did the Particle Accelerator (results just released) mimic the Big Bang?

I understand the results showed that the predicted boson was there, and they think many more bosons might also be there too (they don't know yet if it is Higgs), but my question is did this Particle Accelerator act to recreate the Big Bang, or just observe the interaction of particles in everyday life?

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  • 9 years ago
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    Neither one of those. They didn't recreate the big bang and such collisions don't normally occur.

  • 9 years ago

    Eh, not really. What the LHC does, though, is generate energy comparable to a small (very small) portion of space time shortly after the BB. So the resulting temperatures and kinetic energies are sufficient to knock off the very heavy (as such things go) Higgs Boson when hadrons (e.g., alpha particles) collide.

    The BB according to consensus was born of a quantum event where a high entropy quantum laid an egg of low entropy space time that almost immediately expanded faster than light some 10^30 to 10^100 fold due to a Higgs like scalar field settling down to zero potential energy. And nothing like that happens when hadrons collide in the LHC. [Read "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene for entertaining reading on how the universe began.]

    So, not really...the BB was not replicated, not even close.

    PS: After reading Haley's misinformed answer I must comment. There is all kinds of evidence for the big bang. The uniform distribution of mass and energy, the residual background radiant energy, the back tracking to a single point in space and time, and on and on. There's all kinds of evidence.

  • 9 years ago

    it's BS which everyone has been expecting after this multi billion dollar fiasco, they are claiming that they have found evidence that they think is a suggestion of evidence for the possible existence of the particle ie humbug , it was nothing like the big bang which is still an unproven theory based on zero evidence

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