Large Hadron Collider

[Slim]

When does it come on line? Soon, anyway. So... I was wondering is its only purpose to find a Higgs Boson?

[Janus%TheDoorman]

The LHC is hoped to provide insight into these questions:

-Is the popular Higgs mechanism for generating elementary particle masses in the Standard Model realised in nature? If so, how many Higgs bosons are there, and what are their masses?
- Will the more precise measurements of the masses of the quarks continue to be mutually consistent within the Standard Model?
-Do particles have supersymmetric ("SUSY") partners?
-Why are there apparent violations of the symmetry between matter and antimatter?
-Are there extra dimensions indicated by theoretical gravitons, as predicted by various models inspired by string theory, and can we "see" them?
-What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy?
-Why is gravity so many orders of magnitude weaker than the other three fundamental forces?

There's no precise "Main Switch ON" date as of now. The most specific it gets is "Mid-July"

[ender1]

7 days, 3 hrs till start up.

http://www.lhcountdown.com

[Janus%TheDoorman]

It's the final countdown! Doo-doo doo doooooo

[Ended]

quite random, but has anyone seen
http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdes ... ldyet.com/

oh and check the page source for some easter eggs

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