I am a novice at the very best in the world of physics, always curious as to the expected outcomes of various projects. (Z-machine out of New Mexico, or the particle accelerator in Switzerland)
Questions: What to expect to be the outcomes of these two projects?
I have a very general understanding of what the systems are for, but feel that I do not understand the true implications of these two projects. Care to put out some ideas as to what some of the results might be from these projects?
MM
CERN is looking for the Higgs boson. If it's found then it explains why particles have non-zero rest mass. If it's not found then it might find something which works the same way but which is a new effect of something we've seen before, such as a top quark condensate. If nothing is found which does the Higgs boson's job then it means a huge amount of reworking must be done in quantum field theory.
Other things which will be looked for include supersymmetry, which is a symmetry which get's rid of the heirachy problem in quantum field theory, which is the question "Why is the weak force millions of trillions of trillions of times stronger than gravity?", because when you work out the equations of the weak force, it should not be that strong. But it can if there's supersymmetry. Supersymmetry is also an important thing in cosmology and string theory so if it's seen it'd be a big boost to string theory.
Another thing is photon-photon scattering. Photons do not interact with themselves directly. However, they can interact if one of them turns into charged pairs like electron+positron, because charged particles can interact with photons. Because this is so unlikely at low energies, we've never actually seen it. So we're going to look for it.
The other big thing to look for are micro black holes. No, they won't destroy the world but if they were to be created they would tell us a huge quantity about the universe, not least of which that there's extra dimensions in the universe! That would be another big boost to string theory.
Other things which will be looked for include supersymmetry, which is a symmetry which get's rid of the heirachy problem in quantum field theory, which is the question "Why is the weak force millions of trillions of trillions of times stronger than gravity?", because when you work out the equations of the weak force, it should not be that strong. But it can if there's supersymmetry. Supersymmetry is also an important thing in cosmology and string theory so if it's seen it'd be a big boost to string theory.
Another thing is photon-photon scattering. Photons do not interact with themselves directly. However, they can interact if one of them turns into charged pairs like electron+positron, because charged particles can interact with photons. Because this is so unlikely at low energies, we've never actually seen it. So we're going to look for it.
The other big thing to look for are micro black holes. No, they won't destroy the world but if they were to be created they would tell us a huge quantity about the universe, not least of which that there's extra dimensions in the universe! That would be another big boost to string theory.
QUOTE (AlphaNumeric+Jul 3 2008, 06:29 PM)
a huge amount of reworking must be done in quantum field theory.
Good idea.
Good idea.
QUOTE (dimazin+Jul 4 2008, 05:16 PM)
Good idea.
We've already established you don't know any relativity so your pathetic attempt at taking a cheap shot at physics does nothing more than show your desperation.
We've already established you don't know any relativity so your pathetic attempt at taking a cheap shot at physics does nothing more than show your desperation.
My small and smaller and maybe smallest spheres theory predict, that our universe can any time colapse to nothing. And my theory predicts that there can be infinity many universes (maybe even of any size..), but they can colapse at any time and nobody know that it colpase becouse everybody can colpase all together and since cosmos is infinity then chance that some universe will not colapse very long can be 1 or infintly big. Thus if we will colpase we will not know this. But this is only one possible consequence, and possible that our laws are more stable, but nobody know it for sure.
QUOTE (AlphaNumeric+Jul 4 2008, 06:17 PM)
We've already established you don't know any relativity so your pathetic attempt at taking a cheap shot at physics does nothing more than show your desperation.
Yes, I am already tired to pull out you from dirty lie of relativity.
Yes, I am already tired to pull out you from dirty lie of relativity.
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