Physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider Hadron (LHC, for its acronym in English) expect to get in the next year the first checks for the existence of 'parallel worlds' and 'extra dimensions' notions still mentioned only in science fiction. According to scientists, is currently forming a 'new physics', which can completely change the contemporary knowledge of the universe.
"parallel universes, unknown forms of matter, extra dimensions ... These are not science fiction nonsense cheap, but very concreate physical theories that scientists are trying to be confirmed by the LHC and other experiments, "the recent report by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
While Earth-based observations have been carried out for over a hundred years now has been studied only 4% of the universe. The rest, according to scientists, is dark matter and dark energy, which are invisible and therefore do not support their study.
string theory, which claims to be a new universal physical theory that scientists are trying to prove, admits that there are not four but 10 dimensions, but very compact, and therefore undetectable. He explains the chief contributor to the field of theoretical astrophysics Physico-Technical Institute, Alexander Ivanchik, quoted by the Russian magazine "Itogi". If these dimensions are more compact than an elementary particle, then we can detect when a particle 'disappeared' for a short period of time and then appears again, and this process is not checked for decay, could have 'slipped' in any these dimensions, explained the expert.
The LHC is a particle accelerator built by CERN with the participation of physicists from 34 countries, including Russia. It was launched in November 2009 after a break of a year in his job and is located near Geneva, in the French-Swiss border. Protons, accelerated at nearly the speed of light, collide in the interior of your tunnel 27 miles long.
In analyzing the results generated by the collisions, scientists seek new knowledge about the structure of the universe, and 'recreate' the phenomenon occurred 13,700 million years ago that, according to one version, gave birth to the Universe: the Big Bang. In addition, engineers hope to verify the existence of the Higgs boson, particle to explain the origin of the mass of other elementary particles.
According to the director general of CERN, Rolf Heuer, in mid-October the researchers succeeded in a few weeks earlier than planned to increase the rate of collisions up to 5 million per second, which will help to obtain new scientific data.
September 21 in the Compact Muon Solenoid, one of the four particle detectors, general purpose, revealed a phenomenon predicted in model calculations: the coupling of the particles created in the collision of protons, not lost its remote link.
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