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Re: Walking the planck

Date: Wed Feb 10 13:16:00 2010
Posted By: Bart Hogan, Faculty, Computer, Math and Physical Sciences, University of Maryland, Institution for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1263471857.Ph
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With today's technologies, to create emissions close to the Planck scale would require building a machine that would be of unimaginable size and cost. These machines are called particle accelerators, and accelerate particles to very high energies. The largest and most powerful accelerator in the world is the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), which is not yet fully operational. This is the largest scientific machine every built, and it will produce particles with an energy trillions of times smaller than the Planck energy. So, someone will need to come up with a new method or technology to ever create particles / emissions with the Planck energy / scale.

The following links may be helpful for additional information:

CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research); http://public.web.cern .ch/public/Welcome.html

How a particle accelerator works; http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/Research/Accelerator- en.html

The large Hadron Collider at CERN; http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html

"A BRIEF HISTORY AND REVIEW OF ACCELERATORS" http://documents.cern.ch/archive/cernrep/1994/94-01/p1.pdf


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