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A few Questions:

 

1. When and how often will those particles collide?

2. If they do collide when do they find the higg's boson

3. If they collide wouldn't that make a mini bib bang and that will find it?

When it's operational:

 

1) Bunches will collide every 25ns

Every bunch crossing will be around 20 interactions.

 

It's around 109 proton-proton collisions every second.

 

2) That really depends on which mass Higgs is actually the real one (different ideas propose different mass Higgs) there is also the issue of data analysis, the LHC will produce 107GB of data per year, this has to be analysed, I suspect we should have found the Higgs about a year after 7TeV experiments are started, there is still a lot of callibration and testing to be done before then.

 

3) The big bang was the creation of the universe, we don't know what caused it. The energies involved with the LHC are similar to the energies of collisions at time scales shortly after the big bang.

They are delaying the 7 TeV collisions as I write this but are supposed to begin them within the hour.

 

Done!!! Let the analysis begin.

Edited by npts2020

Well with 15,000,000 gigabytes of data produced per year, my Pentium II may struggle to keep up.

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