LHC (Photo : Reuters)
After being shut down for almost two years, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been restarted at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear).
It makes it that much more complicated to use and run the LHC as it is the largest machine to be known to exist in the entire world. The first beams were enabled in the LHC and the particle circulating was started on Sunday in the machine's 17 mile (27 km) ring.
The LHC is known to generate up to 600 million particles and that too with a beam that goes on a circulation for 10 hours. This implies that the particles are traveling at more than 6 billion miles which is equal to 10 billion kilometers, according to Fox Now.
This much distance can be compared with the distance between Earth and Neptune, both ways. A single proton in the LHC makes about 11,245 circuits per second, according to CNN Philippines.
The whole purpose about this particle accelerator test is to prove the big bang theory, say CERN scientists. They wanted to recreate all the conditions which led to the birth of planet Earth and then explain the detailed steps which led to the creation of this Universe.
The whole experiment costs $3.3 billion at the moment and the cost might go up as well.
Researchers at CERN has also expressed concern that this experiment is carried out in such a best of a machine because the end result will be a highly unstable particle and they still have some doubts on how to control it.
This end result particle will be the explanation for how the universe was created with a loud bang. The scientists also say that so many things can still go wrong with the experiment even though the LHC is in great shape.
