They are firing up the earth shakers! CERN and friends are back online! FASTER, STRONGER, FIERCER.
Get ready for losts of peculiar happenings worldwide. There is no telling what they are really up to, all we can go by is what they tell us. Bear in mind that these people ALL LIVE BY FUNDING. They have to continually justify their existence or die, so take everything they say with a grain of salt.
What follows is a collections of news items about CERN along with other Accelerators and related facilities. It is in no way an all inclusive report. I only pulled the ones most familiar and most controversial. There are many more facilities like these or related all around the world. I included a link to the majority of them at the bottom of this post.
As far as I am concerned all this stuff is a bunch of Mumbo Jumbo and a total waste of MONEY! Beyond that, it is an outrageous risk to humanity and the survival of our earth. I believe there are evil forces at work driving all these scientists. Many of them are into pagan deities, Kabbalah, Witchcraft and/or Magic. I don’t trust “scientists” as far as I could throw them, and at my age and condition, that would not be very far. That is my personal opinion, to which I am entitled.
That said. We will take a look at the what they would have us believe, and what they say to justify their experiments. In the process we will gain a better idea of the different facilities involved and the costs incurred. For some of you this may be all brand new information. For some of you just an update. For all of us, it should be cause for concern and for prayer.
Heads up! Eyes and ears open. Read on. Remember these are only excerpts, if you want to read the complete articles, just click the title links.
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If the scientists, technologists and the ruling elite would just repent and turn from their evil ways they would come to realize that GOD’s WORD is True. JESUS CHRIST is the one who HOLDS ALL THINGS TOGETHER. See the image at the top of the page.
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Here is a promotional video on what CERN is doing now. Take it with a grain of salt. Remember ALL MODERN SCIENCE is only THEORETICAL. They can, by their own admission, NEVER PROVE ANYTHING. Theories is all they deal in.
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SCIENCE
THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER RESTARTS NEXT WEEK — HERE’S WHAT IT’S HUNTING FOR
Here’s what you need to know.
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ON JULY 5, underneath the suburbs of Geneva, Switzerland, the world’s largest particle collider will fire up and start collecting data again. And what they might find has the potential to blow particle physics wide open.
Physicists have high hopes for Run 3. They hope to unlock new particles and new mechanisms that they’ve never been able to see. Recent physics research has unveiled a possible fifth force and challenges to the Standard Model of physics. Run 3 could
The LHC is a behemoth. It’s housed in a circular tunnel, 27 kilometers (17 miles) in circumference and 4 meters (13 feet) wide, buried several stories underground. From CERN’s headquarters in the Geneva suburbs, this tunnel streaks under the towering Jura Mountains, along the undulating French-Swiss border, and comes back again.
LHC is so large because, with more circumference for a particle beam to accelerate through, particles can get ever closer to the speed of light and, therefore, carry higher energies. With higher energies, physicists can see more particles when beams collide.
As massive as the LHC is, scientists aren’t afraid to dream even bigger. If some scientists have their way, LHC will have a future successor — a so-called Future Circular Collider — that has nearly four times the circumference.
There aren’t *new* experiments per se — but they build on existing ones in search of unknown physics.
LHC isn’t just one big experiment. It actually hosts multiple experiments. Each one is looking for different particles or examining different physics. Each one has its own detector located somewhere along the accelerator’s loop. Each one is supported by as many as hundreds of scientists all over the world.
There are four big ones. ATLAS and CMS are “general-purpose” experiments, looking at a wide range of particles that pass through their respective detectors’ scrutiny. These two experiments found the Higgs boson.
ALICE hopes to study a quirky phase of matter known as “quark-gluon plasma,” where atoms literally melt away into a superhot soup. Cosmologists believe that quark-gluon plasma dominated the universe for a brief moment, early in its history.
LHCB (short for “LHC beauty”) aims to examine one particular particle, called the beauty quark. Scientists think the beauty quark can teach them more about the differences between matter and its opposite-charge, destructive twin: antimatter. When matter and antimatter touch, they annihilate each other. The Big Bang ought to have created matter and antimatter in equal amounts, but it seems to have created excess matter— the matter that surrounds us. This imbalance has no explanation.
There are several smaller experiments, many of them looking at other specific particles or other elements of physics.
For decades now, particle physics has lived and died by the so-called Standard Model. It’s a schema that neatly lays out the fundamental particles of the universe — 17 of them — and how they interact with each other. It governs three of the universe’s four fundamental forces: the strong nuclear force, holds particles together inside the nucleus of an atom; the weak nuclear force, which which applies to the decay of particles and guides some forms of radioactivity; electromagnetism; and gravity
The strong force is one of four forces known in the universe, along with the “weak force” — — as well as the electromagnetic force .
For decades, particle physics seems to have almost always obeyed the Standard Model’s predictions — almost.
Particle physicists are increasingly of the mind that the Standard Model isn’t all there is. There are a few curiosities that the Standard Model doesn’t satisfy. For instance, the model does not answer the fourth fundamental force: gravity. Nor has it (so far) given a satisfactory culprit for dark matter, which is more than five times greater in abundance than “normal” matter.
Some of these unanswered questions have made scientists suspect that there’s a fifth fundamental force lurking somewhere out there. One idea is that this fifth force is somehow linked to dark energy, a mysterious form of energy that seems to be causing the universe to accelerate.
Some experiments have hinted at particles beyond the Standard Model, perhaps the bearers of physics beyond scientists’ current understanding.
Recently, scientists poring over old data from a different particle accelerator at Fermilab in suburban Chicago found that one particle, the W boson, has a higher mass than expected. It sounds minor, but it’s a serious breach of the Standard Model. Physicists hope that LHC can help them test this.
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Large Hadron Collider revs up to unprecedented energy level
The world’s largest and most powerful particle collider started back up in April after a three-year break for upgrades in preparation for its third run.
From Tuesday it will run around the clock for nearly four years at a record energy of 13.6 trillion electronvolts, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced at a press briefing last week.
It will send two beams of protons — particles in the nucleus of an atom — in opposite directions at nearly the speed of light around a 27-kilometre (17-mile) ring buried 100 metres under the Swiss-French border.
The resulting collisions will be recorded and analysed by thousands of scientists as part of a raft of experiments, including ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb, which will use the enhanced power to probe dark matter, dark energy and other fundamental mysteries.
1.6 billion collisions a second
“We aim to be delivering 1.6 billion proton-proton collisions per second” for the ATLAS and CMS experiments, CERN’s head of accelerators and technology Mike Lamont said.
This time around the proton beams will be narrowed to less than 10 microns — a human hair is around 70 microns thick — to increase the collision rate, he added.
The new energy rate will allow them to further investigate the Higgs boson, which the Large Hadron Collider first observed on July 4, 2012.
The discovery revolutionised physics in part because the boson fit within the Standard Model — the mainstream theory of all the fundamental particles that make up matter and the forces that govern them.
However several recent findings have raised questions about the Standard Model, and the newly upgraded collider will look at the Higgs boson in more depth.
Compared to the collider’s first run that discovered the boson, this time around there will be 20 times more collisions.
“This is a significant increase, paving the way for new discoveries,” Lamont said.
Joachim Mnich, CERN’s head of research and computing, said there was still much more to learn about the boson.
“Is the Higgs boson really a fundamental particle or is it a composite?” he asked.
“Is it the only Higgs-like particle that exists — or are there others?”
‘New physics season’
Past experiments have determined the mass of the Higgs boson, as well as more than 60 composite particles predicted by the Standard Model, such as the tetraquark.
But Gian Giudice, head of CERN’s theoretical physics department, said observing particles is only part of the job.
“Particle physics does not simply want to understand the how — our goal is to understand the why,” he said.
Among the Large Hadron Collider’s nine experiments is ALICE, which probes the matter that existed in the first 10 microseconds after the Big Bang, and LHCf, which uses the collisions to simulate cosmic rays.
After this run, the collider will come back in 2029 as the High-Luminosity LHC, increasing the number of detectable events by a factor of 10.
Beyond that, the scientists are planning a Future Circular Collider — a 100-kilometre ring that aims to reach energies of a whopping 100 trillion electronvolts.
But for now, physicists are keenly awaiting results from the Large Hadron Collider’s third run.
“A new physics season is starting,” CERN said.
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Hadron Collider: What could subatomic particle smasher reveal?
The world’s largest collider, which revealed the Higgs boson particle, has started its third round of experiments after upgrades.
The beginning of the so-called “Run 3” of the collider comes nearly a decade after data it yielded proved the existence of the Higgs boson particle, also known as the “God particle”, a revelatory discovery that scientists say confirmed the “final puzzle piece” of the Standard Model theory, which outlines the fundamental building blocks and forces of the universe.
LOOKING INTO DARKNESS: NEW DISCOVERIES FROM LARGE HEDRON COLLIDER
The collider, which took about three decades to plan and build, began operating on September 10, 2008. It was shut down in 2013 and 2018 for upgrades. The current experiment will involve collisions at a record 13.6 trillion electronvolts, allowing for increased collision rates and higher collision energy.
“This is a significant increase, paving the way for new discoveries,” CERN Director for Accelerators and Technology Mike Lamont said in a statement.
The collider began running in April to rev up to the level needed to conduct the experiments.
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LARGE HADRON COLLIDER 2.0
What are scientists hoping to find?
Scientists will seek to further study the Higgs boson, with the updated collider allowing for a better understanding of the behaviour of the particle.
Scientists also hope the advanced technology will help to detect signs of dark matter, which is matter that cannot be seen directly, but is known to exist because of its effect on observable objects, including its gravitational pull, according to the United States space agency NASA.
There is also hope that the LHC will help to answer the question of why there is considerably less antimatter in the universe compared to its partner substance, matter, when both should have been produced in equal parts following the big bang.
Meanwhile, as experiments got under way on Tuesday, scientists at CERN announced the discovery of new “exotic particles” that could provide clues about the force that binds subatomic particles together.
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CERN used the LHC to discover the Higgs boson on July 4, 2012, before its first long shutdown. Back then, under LHC “Run 1”, the LHC was operating at 3.5 trillion electronvolts (TeVs). Run 2 occurred between 2015 and 2018 with proton beams colliding 13 TeVs before the second long shutdown. Now it’s time for Run 3 at 13.6 TeVs or 6.8 TeV per beam
Rende Steerenberg, head of the operations group in the LHC beams department, said that with 6.8 TeV for Run 3 it wants to push LHC up to “140 billion particles per package or per bunch.” From 2023 onwards, it wants to increase this to 180 billion particles per packet. “This will of course give us many, many more collisions in the experiments.”
An electronvolt is a measure of kinetic energy gained by an electron accelerating from rest. Hence the need for an accelerator like LHC with its 27km circumference, which accelerates hadron particles (such as lead, xenon and oxygen ions at different levels of the mass spectrum) in a way that forms two beams traveling in opposite directions, almost at the speed of light. The beams collide in the machine at four points or “detectors” called ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LGCb, each of which focusses on measuring different types of hadron particles.
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It’s the Higgs boson particle (or wave in quantum field theory) that’s thought to give mass to the particles that form the basis of stars, planets and everything. When two electrons interact, for example, they exchange particles of light or photons that are the “force carriers” of an electromagnetic interaction, CERN explains.
The updated LHC will be able to create “stable beams”, a condition allowing scientists to switch on all their subsystems for experiments, and begin taking data.
“We will be focusing the proton beams at the interaction points to less than 10 micron beam size, to increase the collision rate,” says CERN’s director for accelerators and technology, Mike Lamont.
“Compared to Run 1, in which the Higgs was discovered with 12 inverse femtobarns, now in Run 3 we will be delivering 280 inverse femtobarns1. This is a significant increase, paving the way for new discoveries.”
CERN says it expects the ATLAS and CMS detectors to record more collisions during Run 3 than in the two previous runs combined.
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The LHCb experiment underwent a complete revamp and looks to increase its data-taking rate by a factor of 10, while ALICE is aiming for a 50-fold increase in the number of recorded collisions.
FILE – A technician works in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) tunnel of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, during a press visit in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 16, 2016. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, file)
The observation of a new type of pentaquark and the first duo of tetraquarks offers a new angle to assess the “strong force” that holds together the nuclei of atoms.
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The announcement of the exotic particles came a day after CERN celebrated the 10–year anniversary of the confirmation of the Higgs boson, the subatomic particle that has a central place in the so-called Standard Model that explains the basics of particle physics.
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An International Experiment for Neutrino Science
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a leading-edge, international experiment for neutrino science and proton decay studies. Discoveries over the past half-century have put neutrinos, the most abundant matter particles in the universe, in the spotlight for further research into several fundamental questions about the nature of matter and the evolution of the universe — questions that DUNE will seek to answer.
DUNE will consist of two neutrino detectors placed in the world’s most intense neutrino beam. One detector will record particle interactions near the source of the beam, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. A second, much larger, detector will be installed more than a kilometer underground at the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory in Lead, South Dakota — 1,300 kilometers downstream of the source. These detectors will enable scientists to search for new subatomic phenomena and potentially transform our understanding of neutrinos and their role in the universe.
Two prototype far detectors are at the European research center CERN. The first started taking data in September 2018 and the second is under construction.
The Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility will provide the neutrino beamline and the infrastructure that will support the DUNE detectors. Groundbreaking for the LBNF excavation and construction at Sanford Lab occurred on July 21, 2017.
Aiming for groundbreaking discoveries
Origin of Matter
Unification of Forces
Black Hole Formation
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The next US particle accelerator will be built on Long Island by 2031
The Electron-Ion Collider will be built on the footprint of Brookhaven’s existing collider.
Work has begun to build a new particle accelerator at the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, Long Island. The new facility will form the backbone of the Electron-Ion Collider project, an initiative to learn the secrets of electrons. Assorted officials from New York and the Department of Energy commemorated the news, including Senator Chuck Schumer.
The Electron-Ion Collider project will attempt to smash electrons and protons together in order to produce images showing their internal structure. Officials at BNL describe it as a “CT Scanner for atoms,” to get a better look at the building blocks of these phenomena: Gluons and Quarks. Specifically, that the force that binds an atomic nucleus and the electrons that surround it, which is regarded as one of the strongest in nature.
Funding for the project will primarily come from the DOE, which expects to hand over anything up to $2.6 billion, with New York State adding an additional $100 million. That will pay for a 2.4-mile long ring to be built parallel to the collider that’s already in place at Brookhaven. It’s hoped that investment will pay off if researchers can understand the nature of how gluons bind these structures together.
For all the attention that CERN’s Large Hadron Collider gets, you may be forgiven for not knowing that Brookhaven already hosts one of its own. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is designed to fire heavy ions at each other in the hope of causing a collision which can be studied. According to one report, the RHIC will be retired in 2025 to make way for its replacement, which is expected to begin operations around 2031.
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The US is building its first new particle collider in decades on Long Island. Stephen Hawking called the technology a ‘time machine.’
- A new particle collider is set to be built at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, New York.
- Particle colliders smash charged particles against one another at nearly the speed of light to reveal some of their fundamental properties.
- The only operating one in the US is Brookhaven’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. It will shut down in 2024 to make room for the new machine, which could be operational by 2030.
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On Thursday, the US Department of Energy announced that the long-awaited Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a type of particle accelerator, will be constructed at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, New York.
Brookhaven clenched the coveted role as the machine’s home and designer, beating out the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia. Brookhaven is already home to the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC; pronounced “Rick”): the only operating particle collider in the US.
That underground ring stretches 2.4 miles. It’s function is slightly different than the EIC; instead of smashing protons and electrons together, the RHIC hurtles beams of gold ions toward one another. Each ion makes around 80,000 loops around the ring per second, before colliding in a similar explosion of subatomic particles.
A new giant particle collider
The new Electron-Ion Collider will replace the RHIC at Brookhaven; the laboratory plans to permanently shutter the RHIC in 2024. The old machine took eight years and an estimated $617 million to build. The new one is expected cost between $1.6 billion and $2.6 billion, according to the Department of Energy, and be operational by 2030.
To construct the EIC, Brookhaven won’t start entirely from scratch — it plans to keep one of the rings from the RHIC. That ring will fire off protons, which will eventually collide with electrons from a new accelerator that has yet to be built.
These collisions will give scientists more precise, 3D snapshots of the building blocks that form protons and electrons. Brookhaven compared the technology to “a CT scanner for atoms.”
Scientists already know that protons are made up of even tinier particles called quarks, which are glued together by particles called gluons. The force that holds these quarks together is more than 100 times more powerful than the electromagnetic force that powers x-rays, radio waves, and visible light. It’s the strongest and most mysterious force in nature.
Scientists hope the EIC scanner will give them a better understanding of how quarks and gluons are arranged and why they’re bound so tightly.
The mystery of protons’ spin
Researchers are also hoping the machine can help them solve a decades-long riddle.
Protons spin in a similar way to how Earth rotates around the sun. The quarks inside the protons spin, too — but this motion only accounts for about a quarter of the total spin of the proton itself. Physicists have been trying to explain why for more than 30 years.
The EIC could make it possible to control protons so that they’re spinning at a similar angle when they collide — a feat that hasn’t been accomplished before. Scientists hope this will shed more light on what’s come to be known as the “spin crisis.”
Unraveling these mysteries has practical applications outside the laboratory, too. Learning more about at atom’s structure could help scientists figure out how to zap cancer cells, improve batteries and electronics, or power future technologies that haven’t even been imagined yet.
“Until we have the EIC, there are huge areas of nuclear physics that we are not going to make progress in,” Donald Geesaman, the former chair of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, told the journal Nature.
But the new particle collider is not a done deal yet. Congress still needs to approve the budget and the Department of Energy will have to sign off on the design and construction timeline.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY
- Founded: 1987
- Employees: 800
- Research: Experimental nuclear physics, computational and theoretical nuclear physics, accelerator science, cryogenics, superconducting radio frequency technologies, radiation detectors, medical imaging devices and free-electron lasers
- Location: Newport News, Virginia
THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY AT A GLANCE
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, commonly called Jefferson Lab or JLab, is a US National Laboratory located in Newport News, Virginia.
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‘Strange’ physics experiment is unraveling structure of proton
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(NC&T/UIUC) Quarks are subatomic particles that form the building blocks of atoms. How quarks assemble into protons and neutrons, and what holds them together, is not clearly understood. New experimental results are providing part of the answer.
The experiment, called G-Zero, was performed at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va. Designed to probe proton structure, specifically the contribution of strange quarks, the experiment has involved an international group of 108 scientists from 19 institutions. Steve Williamson, a physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the experiment coordinator.
“The G-Zero experiment provided a much broader view of the small-scale structure of the proton,” said Doug Beck, a physicist at Illinois and spokesman for the experiment. “While our results agree with hints from previous experiments, the new findings are significantly more extensive and provide a much clearer picture.”
The centerpiece of the G-Zero experiment is a doughnut-shaped superconducting magnet 14 feet in diameter that was designed and tested by physicists at Illinois including Ron Laszewski, now retired. The 100,000-pound magnet took three years to build.
In the experiment, an intense beam of polarized electrons was scattered off liquid hydrogen targets located in the magnet’s core. Detectors, mounted around the perimeter of the magnet, recorded the number and position of the scattered particles. The researchers then used mathematical models to retrace the particles’ paths to determine their momenta.
“There is a lot of energy inside a proton,” Beck said. “Some of that energy can change back and forth into particles called strange quarks.” Unlike the three quarks (two “up” and one “down”) that are always present in a proton, strange quarks can pop in and out of existence.
“Because of the equivalence of mass and energy, the energy fields in the proton can sometimes manifest themselves as these ‘part-time’ quarks,” Beck said. “This is the first time we observed strange quarks in this context, and it is the first time we measured how often this energy manifested itself as particles under normal circumstances.”
The results are helping scientists better understand how one of the pieces of the Standard Model is put together. The Standard Model unifies three forces: electromagnetism, the weak nuclear interaction and the strong nuclear interaction.
“The G-Zero experiment tells us more about the strong interaction — how protons and neutrons are held together,” Beck said. “However, we still have much to learn.”
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The Science
Scientists have developed a new theoretical model for preparing particle accelerator structures made of niobium metal. The model predicts how oxygen in the thin oxide layer on the surface of the niobium metal moves deeper into the metal. This happens as the oxide layer dissolves during gentle heating. This heating is part of how a particle accelerator is made and prepared for use. Tests show that the model accurately describes the concentration profile of oxygen in niobium samples after the heat treatment. The tests also indicate that the treatment improves accelerator structure performance.
The Impact
Engineers and researchers compare the tradition of crafting world-class particle accelerator structures to perfecting a recipe – it takes trial and error. Using this new theoretical model would, for the first time, allow designers to customize the accelerator structure preparation ‘recipe’ without losing time to trial-and-error testing. The model offers a way to fine-tune the inclusion of impurities near the surface. Now this fine-tuning can be done in a simpler process with fewer steps. The model may help accelerator builders predict the optimum ‘recipe’ for their needs.
Summary
Researchers and industry use particle accelerators for a wide range of tasks, such as cancer treatment, scientific research, and searching for oil. Building more efficient accelerators can therefore benefit many different industries. Niobium metal structures power today’s most advanced particle accelerators, and the best accelerator structures were once made of the purest niobium. Recent studies show that adding small amounts of nitrogen to these structures can make them more efficient. Careful heating of accelerator structures using a simpler process can similarly enhance their performance.
In this study, scientists from the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and North Carolina State University closely characterized a niobium heat treatment process that leads to enhanced performance. Oxygen was the key impurity in the enhancement. The researchers also developed a theory describing how the native niobium oxide layer dissolves during heating to describe how oxygen migrates into the niobium surface. They demonstrated that the theory reliably predicts oxygen profiles in test samples. The oxygen-alloyed niobium performed as well as nitrogen-alloyed niobium, increasing efficiency by 70 percent. In addition, the oxygen-alloying heat treatment process is simpler, cheaper and works on any accelerator cavity design. Because the process has less stringent requirements and fewer complicated steps, it should also be more easily reproduced at other facilities.
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NEWPORT NEWS — Virginia will give the Jefferson Lab $3 million to help the Newport News national laboratory bid for a major new Department of Energy project.
The project, a high-performance data facility, could have an enormous economic impact on the Peninsula, said state Sen. Monty Mason, D-Williamsburg, who pushed to add the money to the state budget for fiscal 2023. It will help the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility prepare detailed plans and engineering work to bid for the facility, Mason said.
“Just to give you an idea of the scale of Department of Energy work, Jeff Lab got something like $400 to $500 million of work from the electron-ion collider that New York got,” Mason said, referring to large project that the Virginia lab competed for but lost in 2020.
The Department of Energy wants to enhance its computing capability —50 times more computational science and data analytic application power than the department’s current supercomputers deliver.
Dave Ress, 757-247-4535, dress@dailypress.com
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- Guangdong becomes focus as China races the US to build bigger particle accelerators
- Scientist says the competition between the two countries will ultimately be for the good of the human race
Scientists in southern China are planning to create machines that will be used to unravel the mysteries of the building blocks of the universe.
They said two ring-shaped electron-ion colliders – one 2km (1.2 miles) long – will be built in Huizhou, a city in Guangdong province, beginning in 2025 and they will be designed to accelerate electrons to close to the speed of light.
The project – known as the Electron-Ion Collider of China, or EICC – will see electrons being fired at the nuclei of heavy elements such as iron or uranium at high speeds.
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By Ryan F. Mandelbaum
11/14/18 5:45PM
The current largest collider is the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, which smashes protons and has a circumference of 16.6 miles. But scientists have already begun planning successors. CERN is in the midst of upgrading the LHC, and has plans for a “Future Circular Collider,” which could have 62-mile circumference.
Today, the consortium of scientists representing the Chinese Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) released a report detailing their proposed collider. It, too, would be housed in a hundred-kilometer- (62-mile-) round tunnel at one of three potential sites. The documents work under the assumption that the collider will be located near Qinhuangdao City, around 200 miles east of Beijing. It would collide electrons with their antimatter partners, called positrons (every particle has an antimatter partner with the same mass and opposite electric charge, among other differences). It would serve to generate “more than one million Higgs particles,” as well as billions of another particle called the Z boson and 15 million pairs of W bosons.
This would allow scientists to precisely measure these particles, which could direct physicists toward the kind of experiments they should perform next. It’s in line with the goals of other proposed future particle colliders, like the International Linear Collider that would live in Japan.
The tunnel is also large enough to accommodate a proton accelerator in the future, to complete higher-energy proton collisions like those at the LHC but on a larger scale. The tunnel could also serve as a synchrotron, another kind of particle accelerator that generates bright light to use for things like microscopy.
At least one scientist we spoke to who has written on this subject expressed concern about the project. Yangyang Cheng, postdoc at Cornell University, told Gizmodo that she applauded the effort of the young scientists who put together the report, as well as the international collaboration—but said we all must consider the implications beyond just physics.
Cheng was concerned both with the effects of the experiment and the safety of the construction project. She cited that the Chinese government displaced 9,000 villagers to build the FAST telescope, and it has had safety issues related to the construction of its high-speed rail network. But on top of that, the country recently eliminated presidential term limits and is racking up human rights violations.
“[The region of Xinjiang] is a 21st century totalitarian police state powered by 21st century surveillance technology, with over a million Uighur Muslims and ethnic minorities in concentration camps,” Cheng told Gizmodo. “The situation should be a major factor for any entity that does business with China.”
This is not meant to ignore other governments that sponsor violence, and China has been leading the way in some scientific disciplines, including quantum physics. But Cheng asked that scientists worldwide don’t just allow the machine to be built and use it without exercising their political power to help address the country’s issues. “International scientists have leverage and power,” that they can wield without being complicit. She also said that Chinese scientists should be more aware about their potential complicity.
Gizmodo has contacted representatives for the collider, CERN, and the United States’ Fermilab for comment, and will update the post when we hear back.
Research and development on the experiment will occur from 2018 to 2022, according to the report, and Chinese funding agencies have taken an interest in funding large science projects. Construction would then run from 2022 to 2030. After 10 years of operation, the upgrade to a proton collider would begin. All-in-all, the proposal for the project estimates a cost of less than 6 billion Swiss francs, or around $5.92 billion—and mentions that building in China would lead to cost savings.
Meanwhile, we’ve got our own accelerators planned for the U.S., such as the electron-ion collider, but nothing at quite the scale of the CEPC.
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Jesus Christ/YeShuah HaMaschiach – Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. (consist: 1 v have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in. Source)
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The Son is the gleaming brightness of God’s glory. He is the exact likeness of God’s being. He uses his powerful word to hold all things together. Hebrews 1:3a
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