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What is the name of th worlds largest particle physics laboratory?
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∙ 15y ago
The largest 'laboratory' is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva.
It's a 27km-circumference ring, buried underground, used for high-energy particle scattering experiments, and home to detectors/ experiments including ATLAS, LHCb, ALICE, and CMS.
http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
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∙ 15y agoThe ATLAS Detector, part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN - located on the border between France and Switzerland - measures 150 ft (46m) long and 82 ft (25m) wide and high. It weighs about 15.4 million lb (7,000 metric tons) and contains 100 million sensors that measure produced in proton-proton collisions in the Compact Muon Solenoid. ATLAS was fully completed and installed on March, 2008.
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CERN the worlds largest particle physics laboratory is situated in the suburbs of which city on the Franco-German border?
CERN is situated in Meyrin, which is close to Geneva.Officially the whole complexe, including the Large Hadron Collider and other accelerator belong to Switzerland, but geographically CERN is located at the border of France and Switzerland (not the Franco-German border;))
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The whole purpose of physics is to describe the real world, the actual world we live in. Now, you can imagine all sorts of interesting worlds, with different physical laws; but ultimately, you can only know which of these most closely matches the real world, by doing actual experiments.
Are particles unable to be destroyed?
The worlds most famous equation, E=mc^2, describes the relationship between matter and energy. The energy contained in matter is its weight in kilograms times the speed of light (300 000 000 m/s) squared, an enormous number. One of the most basic laws of the universe is that energy never can disappear or be created, but it can change form. E=mc^2 tells us that matter is simply one form of energy, and it can change form into another form of energy, destroying the matter in the process. Perhaps the best example is anti-matter which will annihilate with ordinary matter and release all the energy concentrated in it as light, destroying both the particle and its anti-particle. The reverse is also possible: a sufficiently energetic photon can create a particle and an anti-particle, destroying the photon.
What is the difference between modern and early physics?
The common way to divide physics into two parts where one is 'Modern Physics' has the other part as 'Classical Physics' (not 'Early Physics'). 'Early Physics' is not a widely-used expression though it might be considered the work of the ancient Greeks. 'Classical Physics' will be assumed hereon. Classical physics is the common (and often relatively common-sense) physics that we observe around us. It is the physics of televisions and refrigerators and rainbows and air planes. It explains the orbit of the Earth around the Sun and why the sky is blue and how engines and microwave cookers and bicycles and anti-lock brakes work. The fundamentals of electronics and semiconductor and computer technologies (but not the fine details) can be derived using classical physics. Much of the basic operation of lasers and the fibre-optics technologies (but again not the fine details) can also be explained by classical physics. Traditionally, physicists consider the main branches of classical physics to be mechanics (motion), electromagnetism (electricity and magnetism), optics (light, lenses, waves, propagation) and thermodynamics (heat, order and entropy). Note that in principle, optics could be included in the electromagnetism branch but it is generally understood to be important enough to be considered a separate one. Modern physics began to appear around 1900 when phenomena started to be observed that classical physics could describe, but only quite approximately. A notable year was 1905 when Albert Einstein published his paper on what we now call Special Relativity. Later he presented a generalisation of it, aptly enough called General Relativity. This was followed in the 1920s by even more astounding - and profoundly different - work by Schrödinger and Heisenberg that led to what we now call Quantum Physics. These - Quantum Physics and General Relativity - are considered the two main branches of modern physics. In a paragraph above classical physics was described as the common (and often relatively common-sense) physics. Modern physics, though, describes 'worlds' that are not at all common (and are often very counter intuitive) for us. General relativity typically starts to give results that are significantly different from classical physics (Newtonian mechanics) only when masses are many times that of our Sun or velocities are a significant part of the speed of light. Quantum physics - which is notoriously difficult to intuit - often only gives different results from classical physics when the spatial scales are tiny; that is when we are considering particles or systems the size of small molecules or atoms or smaller. In fact, through recent efforts it is possible to absorb all of classical physics into general relativity. It is also possible now to absorb all of classical physics into quantum physics. However the distinguishing parts of General Relativity and Quantum Physics continue to stand apart and seem difficult to absorb into a unified theory. String theories are some of the most promising recent efforts at the unification and some are candidates for a Theory of Everything (TOE) in physics. While the applications of modern physics are in some ways still in their infancy, General relativity has given us a much richer understanding of the Universe than classical physics gave us. Quantum physics has been important in the development and refinement of the electronics, computer and information technologies. Both are providing us with a greater understanding of the Universe, perhaps while reminding us, with their often counter-intuitive perspectives, that things in this world may not always be the way that they initially seem to be ... That 'truth' can be more wonderful and seem vastly more imaginative than fiction. DonB
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