PHYSICISTS DISCUSS `BIG BANG MACHINE` PROGRESS AT PARIS CONFERENCE

21.07.2010 [22:47]
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Baku, July 21 (AZERTAC). A very specialized group of scientists meets this month (July 22 - 28) in Paris for a biennial conference on high energy physics and among the topics are the accomplishments of the Large Hadron Collider, more commonly known as the "Big Bang Machine", according to VOA.

The issues are complex, but are they too esoteric to mean much to the wider public?

It is a select community - about 10,000 scientists in the field of particle physics - studying the smallest bits of matter and energy in the universe, what they are made of and how they interact.

At this year`s conference, scientists from the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) present their findings on experiments conducted on the Large Hadron Collider. The giant scientific instrument, 100 meters underground near Geneva, sends beams of proton particles hurtling through tunnels at ever higher speeds and causes some of these particles to collide.

PHYSICISTS DISCUSS `BIG BANG MACHINE` PROGRESS AT PARIS CONFERENCE

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