Brian Cox on the Large Hadron Collider

Prof. Brian Cox (b. 1968), a former rock star and now physics professor, is one of the experimental physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful atom smasher.

The video [15 min.] above is from TED 2008 conference where Cox was one of the speakers.

A quote: "If you just look at your thumbnail, about a square centimeter, there is something like 60 billion neutrinos per second from the sun passing through every square centimeter of your body."

Cox talks more about the LHC in this interview by Wired magazine.

Brian Cox, CERN, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, TED 2008

Comments

[socratus]

The mad CERN ’s project.
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In 1906, Rutherford studied internal structure of atoms,
bombarding them with high energy a- particles.
This idea helped him understand the structure of atom.
But the clever Devil interfered and gave advice to physicists
to enlarge the target. Bomb them!
And physicist created huge cannon-accelerators of particles.
And they began to bomb micro particles in the vacuum, in hoping
to understand their inner structure. And they were surprised with
the results of this bombing. Several hundreds of completely new
strange particles appeared. They lived a very little time and do not
relate to our world. Our Earth needs its real constants of nature.
But this was forgotten.
What God carefully created, is destroyed in accelerators.
And they are proud of that. They say: we study the inner structure
of the particles. The clever and artful Devil is glad. He again has deceived man.
Physicist think, that an accelerator - is first of all the presence of huge energy.
And the Devil laughs. He knows, that an accelerator - is first of all the Vacuum.
But this, he has withheld from man.
He has not explained that the Vacuum is infinite and inexhaustible.
And in infinity there is contained an infinite variety of particles.
And by bombing the vacuum, one can find centaurs and sphinxes.
But my God, save us from their presence on Earth.
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Rutherford was right.
His followers are mistaken.
Why?
Imagine, that I want to plant a small apple- tree.
For this purpose I shall dig out a hole of 1 meter width and 1,20 m depth.
It is normal.
But if to plant a small apple- tree, I shall begin to dig
a base for a huge building (skyscraper),
or if to begin drill ground with 10 km. depth,
will you call me a normal man?
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Imagine a man who breaks watches on the wall.
And then he tries to understand the mechanism of the watches
by thrown cogwheels, springs and small screws.
Does he have many chances to succeed?
As many as the scientists have who aspire to understand
the inner structure of electron by breaking them into accelerators.
If not take into account the initial conditions of Genesis,
the fantasies of the scientists may be unlimited.
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The Nature works very economical.
For example, biologists know 100 ( hundred ) kinds of
amino acids. But only 20 ( twenty) kinds of amino acids
are suitable to produce molecules of protein, from which all
different cells created on our planet. What are about another
80 % of amino acids? They are dead end of evolution.
The physicists found many ( 1000 ) new elementary particles in
accelerators. But we need only one ( 1) electron and one (1 )
proton to create first atom, to begin to create the Nature.
All another elementary particles (mesons, muons , bosons, taus,
all their girlfriends - antiparticles, all quarks and antiquarks…etc)
are dead end of evolution.
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What was before - “ the big bang” or the vacuum ?
The physicists created “ Europe’s Large Hadron Colider “
Please, look at how our physicists made this accelerator.
They made the vacuum and after they generated a big reaction
between two colliding particles in some small imitation of the
“big bang”. They didn’t make this process in the reverse.
So, what was prior in the Universe: “ big bang” or vacuum?
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The Universe as whole is Vacuum, first of all.

Best wishes.
Israel Sadovnik. / Socratus.
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P.S.

Will CERN find the God - Particle?
Hawking bets CERN will not find the God Particle

http://www.physorg.com/news140161003.html
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Comment.

Smashing watches against a wall to find out what is inside them
at least tells you that there are wheels and gears inside the watch.
If you have a few million watches and are willing to spend
a lot of time working out how all the gears fit together inside
the watch, once you know what the gears look like, you
might be able to figure out how the watch works.
(It's unlikely, though. The escapement, in particular, is somewhat
tricky if you've never come across the concept before).

Of course, it's not the best way to see how a watch works.
The best way is to carefully remove the screws on the back
of the case; then you can see the workings spinning away,
ticking and working, and then you can see how it all works,
you don't need to try to work it all out from bits of wheels.

But here there is a problem; I know of no tool small enough
to be able to carefully disassemble a proton. Therefore,
until someone finds such a tool, the proton cannot be carefully
disassembled, only smashed...
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Comment by Rick.

Well you know there are some serious problems with the standard model.

And well high energy particle physics has been the big budget
backbone of physics, and yet the type of physics they engage in,
is not the type of physics you see in the every day world.
It just doesn't apply to anything other than supercolliders.

Giant electro-magnets essentially. It is the physics of giant electro-
magnets and so it knows nothing about mass, and everything about
what happens in a giant electro-magnet.

Now the problem arises when you take what you have done in a giant
electro-magnet and try to say that this is how the universe works.
No, this is how a giant electro-magnet works.

And so then you see people spend hundreds and hundreds of billions of
dollars trying to make a fusion reactor, based on information from a
giant electro-magnet. And all attempts have failed. Not only that, but
the recommendations made have been, look, first go back and learn how
things work, because clearly you have not got a clue what you are
doing, or how atoms work at all, so before you spend another hundred
billion dollars on yet another project which shows zero results,
perhaps you had better learn some real physics.

And that true, because you see you can do experiment after experiment
and get absolutely nowhere, if your theory is wrong in the first place.
You will just look for results that match your hypothesis, and
you will make erroneous conclusions, and you will make further
erroneous assumptions, and none of it will be accurate, and none
of it will lead to any useful predictions.

You know its clear to me, that either the people at the LHC do not
know much about atoms, or they are merely playing Devil's Advocate,
because they are claiming that they will be sending mass or matter
around the collider at almost the speed of light, and special
relativity says that to say that you can do that means you know
nothing much about physics at all.

So then when they send em waves around there they call those
particles, and when they send em waves around there they can just make
up whatever they want and they just say well energy is the same as mass.

But E=mc2 is not about em waves it is F=ma
See how it is just renamed? Isn't a cute trick to rename old formulas
and everyone will think you are amazing?
Like Newton renamed F=ma to w=mg same thing again.
So energy equals mass times the speed of light but it is not electro-
magnetic energy, it is force. Kinetic energy.
Much of physics is about renaming things in a confusing manner in
order to make yourself famous.

To answer your question about what is the intellect, there is a technical
answer such as that your capacity depends on your computers capacity
and your software (your brain and your capacity to reason), but there is
another answer and that is that intellect is uncommon, common sense.

Rick.
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[socratus]

Comment by Ivan Gorelik.
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What will LHC give us: the particle of God, or magnetic trap of Devil?

Magnetic trap is an axial-symmetric magnetic analogue of a black hole.
It is 10^36 stronger than gravitational black hole.
CERNs specialists do not know about the magnetic trap yet. If
microscopic magnetic trap will be made in CERN's LHC, the Earth will
be transformed into an infinitely thin emptiness, surrounded by
circular current of 6 meter radius. Compare: Schwarzschild radius of
such mass is 0,009 meters.

Minimal possible magnetic trap has mass, which is equivalent to 1 TeV,
or about 1055 masses of neutrons. It has magnetic field, which is
equal to 3*10^16 teslas. Magnetic trap is a magnetic dipole, which can
be imagined as an infinitely thin coil, creating the critical magnetic
field.
Neutrons are smallest neutral magnets and they can be captured by
magnetic trap, ejecting neutrino. Protons are also magnets and they
can also be captured by the trap, ejecting positrons. Neutrons and
protons are fermions, but after neutrino or positron ejection, they
become bosons, - the quanta of stationery magnetic field of neutron
hole.
Half of mass of captured particles goes to the energy of ejected
particles, and the second half goes to the magnetic trap’s magnetic
field. As a result of particle capture the radius of magnetic trap
becomes bigger. It looks as widespreading magnetic soliton.
If magnetic trap of Devil will be made on collider, if the process of
it’s growth will be slow (months, years), you will cry from pane, and
your aggression towards big-bangers, who had made the experiment, will
be much more, than mine aggression now. You will want to cut sir
Hawking and other crazy big-bangers on small pieces.

Now I am forced to convince the prosecutor’s department to open the
criminal case against Rubakov V.A. If you will make the same in your
countries against arrant big-bangers, we will survive. Otherwise we’ll
die, with probability about 50%.

Only crazy people can try to create particles with the rest mass more
then 1000 masses of nucleon. It is possible that in the region from
1000 to 7000 aum, there can be created hundreds types of particles and
resonances. It is clear, that the most of them will decay. But some of
them will grow, capturing the ordinary matter.

Different types of growing particles will work on different forces,
and on combinations of forces.
I hope that mBHs, connected by gravity force, are impossible and safe.
But magnetic traps are 10^36 stronger, and they are the most probable
candidates to explain the majority of cosmic catastrophes – novae,
supernovae... I had understood this only this September.
Academician Migdal wrote 30 years ago about pion condensation in
strong fields. As a result he had come to conclusion that neutron
stars can have any masses. My approximate computation shows that the
minimal possible neutron star has a mass, equal to 1055 masses of
nucleons, and such embryo of neutron star can by made in collider.

A month ago the article were published that new strange unexpected
particle was discovered at Tevatron. It decays at several muons, up to
eight units. Somebody had already named it the Halloween particle. I
named it the muon hole.

What will be made the next, the magnetic trap of Devil? It will not
decay, but it will transform us into it’s magnetic field.

Those persons, with high ranks and high scientific degrees, who cry
about the safety of LHC must be arrested now, because they are
committing the global terrorist crime now.

Stop Tevatron and close the LHC. Throw out big-bangers from
universities. Big Bang never was. The Universe is ever young.

Hubble constant (H, Hbar) is the mirror reflection of Plank constant
(h, hbar). These both constants are describing the 4d-rotation on
opposite scales relatively us. Precise value of Hubble constant you
can find on my web-site. http://darkenergy.narod.ru/ That is my Steady
State model of Universe. I worked with this model more than 30 years,
and I did not receive any cent for my work. And now big-bangers want
to kill me, my children, and all of you. Big-bangers want to touch the
particle of God, but thus, they lead all of us into the magnetic trap
of Devil.

/ Ivan Gorelik /.
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[socratus]

‘ I believe because it is absurd. ‘
/ Tertullian. (ca.160 – ca.220 AD) /
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‘I believe in Physics because it is absurd.’
Would you ever say such a thing to a modern man ?
I doubt it. Most of us would be asking God’s
forgiveness for even thinking it.
But.
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The basis of the physics consists of:
1.
Abstract separated absolute space and time of Newton.
2.
Abstract ‘ideal gas’ and ‘ideal particles.’
3.
Abstract ‘black body.’
4.
Abstract SRT negative 4 - dimensional space,
abstract 5D, …….and 11 - dimensional spaces.
5.
Abstract ‘virtual particles’, ‘dark matter’, ‘dark energy’.
6.
Abstract ‘ inertial movement’.
7.
Abstract ‘big bang’.
8.
Abstract " method of renormalization".
9.
Etc.
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And therefore we can read.
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We don't know what we are talking about"
/ Nobel laureate David Gross referring to the current state of string theory./
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It is important to realize that in physics today,
we have no knowledge of what energy is.
We do not have a picture that energy comes in little
blobs of a definite amount. ”
( Feynman. 1987)
#
When asked which interpretation of QM he favored,
Feynman replied: "Shut up and calculate."
#
When I was first learning quantum mechanics as a graduate student
at Harvard, a mere 30 years after the birth of the subject.
"You'll never get a PhD if you allow yourself to be distracted
by such frivolities," they kept advising me, "so get back to serious
business and produce some results."
"Shut up," in other words, "and calculate."
And so I did, and probably turned out much the better for it.
/ N. David Mermin /
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The problem of the exact description of vacuum, in my opinion,
is the basic problem now before physics. Really, if you can’t correctly
describe the vacuum, how it is possible to expect a correct description
of something more complex?
Paul Dirac .
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“ Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things,
you just get used to them.”
/ John von Neumann ./
#
Since the mathematical physicists have taken over,
theoretical physics has gone to pot.
The bizarre concepts generated out of the over use and
misinterpretation of mathematics would be funny if it were not
for the tragedy of the waste in time,
manpower, money, and the resulting misdirection.
/ Richard Feynman./
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" I feel that we do not have definite physical concepts at all
if we just apply working mathematical rules;
that's not what the physicist should be satisfied with."
/Dirac /
#
In his 1997 book ” The End of Certainty” Nobel Laureate
Ilya Prigogine wrote:
"The more we know about our universe, the more difficult
it becomes to believe in determinism."
And “ The quantum paradox is real nightmare for classic mind ”
#
In his book ” Quantum theory “ ( published in 2002 )
John Polkinghorne wrote:
“Quantum theory is certainly strange and surprising,…”
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Etc.
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The physical education.

The more I study the more I know.
The more I know the more ideas I have.
The more ideas I have the more they abstract.
The more they abstract the less I know the truth.
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Some years ago I told with young physicist (!!!).
He said very confidently: ” You cannot be physicist (!)
if you cannot understand the beauty of Minkowski
mathematics.(!!!)
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It seems that he is right, because physicists must know
mathematics very well. The problem is that nobody
knows what is real physical meaning of “ 4-D negative
space continuum.” in the Nature. SRT is correct theory
but Minkowski space continuum is abstract. And together
they are paradoxical. More than 100 years we live with
this paradox. Nobody confuses.
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During our conversation I understand that this young physicist
is strong and clever man and he want to reach success. And
I think he will do it. So, in the future he will create new
D/ M-spaces or new symmetries or discover new particles.
And one day he will be a professor and will teach new
generation ( your son or your daughter) in order that they also
have possibility to create new D/ M-spaces or new symmetries
or discover new particles. But if in the beginning the abstract
ideas were put into the fundament of physics then ……..
we can create new and new theories for 1000 years but
the result will be the same - paradoxical.
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Conclusion from some article:
" One of the best kept secrets of science is
that physicists have lost their grip on reality."
#
What is our intellect ?
We can see this practically :
after “ big bang “ all Galaxies run away from us.
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P.S.
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Dark energy may be vacuum
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/uoc-dem011607.php
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When the next revolution rocks physics,
chances are it will be about nothing—the vacuum, that endless
infinite void.
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/18-nothingness-of-space-theory-of-everything

http://discovermagazine.com/topics/space
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Best wishes.
Israel Sadovnik. / Socratus.
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[socratus]

God and Photon.

Absolute God is doing only One Thing.
God creates virtual particles as Quantum theory says.

And then He gives to these virtual particles spin/ impulse ,
Magic Constant of speed. The speed of these virtual particles
is constant: c=1, no matter how the source or the observer moves.
/ Michelson’s experiment. 1881. SRT. 1905. /
The Magic Constant of speed c =1 the Particles can have
only from God.
We called these virtual particles Light Quanta / Photons.
So, It is right when God said:
Let be Quantum of light and there was Light Quanta.

Only the Quantum of Light has a maximal, constant,
absolute quantity of movement: c=1. No other particle
can travel with the speed c = 1.
It is very strange.
Thinking about Light Quanta we can forget about a " source" .
It means that every Light Quanta is an independent particle.
It is very strange.
When Light Quanta moves with constant speed c=1
its time is frozen, its time stops and its own clock shows zero.
It is very strange.
But the Particle Light Quanta can be a WAVE (simultaneously) .
Can the conception of Dualism be equal to Idealism?
Isn’t it sound unusually?

The Photon no doubt is a Special Particle.
The Quantum of Light is a privileged particle.
That is the reason that a Photon- Light Quanta
is God’s Creation, God’s particle.
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Best wishes.
Israel Sadovnik. / Socratus.

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