The Most Complicated Thing That Humans Have Built So Far!
'CERN's Large Hadron Collider is set to become the very first time machine in history. According to the research published by Irina Arefieva and Igor Volovich, "in general relativity, a time-like curve in space-time will run from past to future. But in some space-times the curves can intersect themselves, giving a closed-like curve, which is interpreted as a time machine - which suggests the possibility of time travel." Continue reading the article on Dark Roasted Blend - it pretty much sums it all so well!Can you spot the humans?
Quick facts:
- 20 years work-in-progress
- A team of 7,000 physicists from more than 80 nations
- 27 kilometers in circumference, 175 meters underground
- Facilitating head-on collision of protons, travelling very near speed-of-light
- Each tunnel is big enough to run a train through it.
- Temperatures generated: more than 1000,000 times hotter than the sun's core
- Superconducting magnets are cooled to a temperature colder than in deep space
