Whose idea is Particle Collider?

Question

Did they have actually produced a product out of it? Have they found an actual application for such?

Answer 1

probably some forgotten grad student.

Answer 2

They say they learn something...but I don't think they do...out of everytime they 'smash' things. This is very destructive research/science in understanding the universe. There are much more simpler and passive means.

In the end, it doesn't really help any one, as the earth as a whole. These 'scientists' are playing God without the consent of others. We are not being told everything...or they have nothing to tell us, since they really don't know what they are doing.

I also believe they are dwelving into dangerous realms using high energy in their physics. Reasoning predicts, the more energy they put into such experiments, the greater the outcome for danger to create the unpredicable.

I too, in lieu of these Hawaiian scientists who are protesting CERNLHC, feel that an imminent 'breach' of containment of any singularity is more than possible. For one thing, if a baby black hole is created, the magnetic field alone, created by it will buckle the superconducting magnets easily. It won't be contained. It will be unleashed.

Answer 3

The first particle accelerator was the cathode ray. One application involves colliding it with atomic particles called phosphorus. You're probably reading this answer from this application at this very moment.

Answer 4

Okay, a lot of these answers are pretty silly. The Large Hadron Collider is not going to produce to black hole that destroys the world, although I think one person was just joking about that. I'm hardly an expert, but I feel obliged to chime in.

Dr. R is probably right about the first particle accelerator, although I hadn't though of that. A lot of technologies rely on small particle accelerators, but they're pretty far removed nowadays from the huge, miles-long ones that are being built to conduct physics research. I'm afraid I have no idea who was responsible for the first of those, although the answer probably can be found somewhere on google or wikipedia. It may very well have been "some forgotten grad student," as nickipet suggested.

Applications of these large-scale particle accelerators, however, are somewhat roundabout. There aren't really any direct applications of them, and producing a product out of a particle accelerator would be pretty much impossible (maybe if your clientele includes Dr. Evil and the like, you could do it). Particle accelerators are purely for theoretical research, expanding our knowledge of quantum physics quite substantially. They're the only way to verify a number of theories with quite significant consequences, and quantum physics is hugely important in a lot of modern technology and even more important in possibly revolutionary new technologies that have been proposed, but are not yet feasible. Any sort of nanotechnology, for instance, has to take quantum effects into account, quantum computing has huge potential -- there are really a huge number of potential applications of this sort of knowledge.

Answer 5

Are you speaking of the Collider in Switzerland, that just powered up?

I have not yet heard of any results from this. I don't think it is fully powerde up yet.  Typically, they would run very low-powered tests to make sure everything is working before the applied full power.  And those tests take months, if not years.

But this is not the FIRST one -- it is only the most POWERFUL one. There are others.

But there is no "product" that comes out of them -- except knowledge.  What this knowledge is and how it can be used is not yet determined, but typically these types of things are fall under the heading of "pure research" -- research for knowledge only.  There is very little "practical research" -- research to produce a product.

In many many years someone might use this knowledge to invent, maybe, a Graviton Generator (like Star Trek).  They MIGHT say that the research today led to that invention tomorrow.  But the Particle Collider is not going to prove or disprove that we can make a Graviton Generator.  

it is just for research, and the increase of knowledge.

Answer 6

Those Europeans are going to create a black hole and destroy the earth

yes:

http://newsbiscuit.com/article/large-had...

Answer 7

There are some actual applications of them. Making drugs for nuclear medicine is one appliaction, another is cancer therapy. They can use them for materials analysis (neutron scattering usually) in order to find out the structure of materials or to find out what materials are made of or for things like scanning cargo containers.

Ones like LHC or Tevatron are for more basic science applications like testing the standard model of particle physics in order to increase our understanding of what makes up the universe.

Answer 8

I think its really just tests no actual application