Particle Accelerator
Since the evolution of advancement and science mankind always wondered about the existence of this universe and how it came into being. To answer these queries great scientists put forward many theories. Two most famous of them are “The Bing Bang Theory” and “The String Theory”. Nevertheless these are just theories. Therefore in order to prove them scientists at present using modern technology such as “The Large Hadron Collider” trying to stimulate what really happened at the beginning of time and space. This technology is also the Particle Accelerator as it accelerates particles such as Atoms at close to the speed of light.

A Brief History of Time and Space

“Is not He who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the likes of them? Yes; and He is the Knowing Creator. His command is only when He intends a thing that He says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.” (Quran 36:81-82)

The Big Bang theory states that around 12-15 billion years ago the universe came into existence from one single extremely hot and dense point, and that something triggered the explosion of this point that brought about the beginning of the universe. Matter was created along with its opposite antimatter. Time and space began at the moment of Big Bang.

The Large Hadron Collider/ the Particle Accelerator

The Large Hadron Collider is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever built. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) from 1998 to 2008, with the aim of allowing physicists to test the predictions of different theories of physics. It is designed to smash tiny particles into tinier ones to find out the stuff from which the universe is made.
The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way. Inside the accelerator, two high-energy particle beams travel at close to the speed of light before they are made to collide. The beams travel in opposite directions in separate beam pipes – two tubes kept at ultrahigh vacuum. They are guided around the accelerator ring by a strong magnetic field maintained by superconducting electromagnets.

What happens next?

After the collision of those high energy particles, according to Higgs Boson theory new matter is produced along with its antimatter also known as the God Particle or the Dark Matter. There is also the possibility of the creation of micro black holes inside the LHC according to the prediction of many scientists.

Advantages

1. Existence of the Universe: The core advantage is gaining the knowledge of our existence. With the help of this scientists could stimulate the “time zero” or the initial stage of the Big Bang.

2. Medical benefits: The accelerator physics developed to do high energy physics has greatly increased the ability to focus a beam of energetic particles into a very small area, as well as the ability to cause the particles to interact only at the location of the cancer. 3. Pattern recognition: Pattern recognition has taken on a research life of its own, but some of the most basic algorithms came from particle physics. 4. The World Wide Web: The web page was first developed at CERN to share information between internationally located experimentalists in high energy physics. 5. Cloud Computing: Experiments at the LHC produce tens of petabytes of data/year, which must be processed, stored, and distributed to physicists around the world via a computing grid. Cloud computing is derived in large part from grid computing.

Disadvantages

1. Micro Black Hole: The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider sparked fears among the public that the particle collisions might produce doomsday phenomena, involving the production of stable microscopic black holes.

2. Cost: The LHC is one of the most expensive scientific instruments ever built. The total cost of the project is expected to be of the order of 4.6 billion.

Conclusion

Will the LHC succeed in furthering our knowledge about the universe? Will the data collected raise more questions than it answers? If past experiments are any indication, it's probably a safe bet to assume the answer to both of these questions is yes.