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A Collimeter at the LHC The collimation system protects the LHC against damage due to beam loss. Claudia Marcelloni, CERN

The Large Hadron Collider took several years to construct, and it was expected that it would take several more to begin yielding game-changing scientific data. But, to the delight of CERN researchers, that hasn’t been the case. The LHC is already yielding reams of valuable scientific data, and a bulletin released by lead researchers Monday indicates that the ATLAS experiment is working so well that researchers should be able to confirm or rule out the existence of the Higgs Boson by next year, and could even find evidence of extra dimensions before the end of 2011.

The pace of experimentation and accuracy of data coming from ATLAS – one of the LHC’s primary experiments – has stunned even the very researchers who conceived the experiments. To quote Fabiola Gianotti, a spokeswoman for ATLAS:

We are producing new results all the time now. We plan to release a new wave of results early next year, for the 2011 winter conferences. Given the record luminosity achieved by the machine, by the end of 2011, combining ATLAS and CMS, we can expect to be able to exclude the existence of the Higgs boson over the full allowed mass range, or else to collect evidence for it if its mass is greater than 125 GeV. We could also discover Supersymmetry up to masses of almost 1 TeV and new forces up to masses of the carrier particles of 1.5 - 2 TeV.

ATLAS is currently on break from searching for the theoretical Higgs boson, dark matter, and proof of additional dimensions so it can record data from the lead ion collisions currently creating miniature Big Bangs in the collider. The heavy ion collision experiments will run through early December, when CERN will take a Christmas break to perform maintenance on the accelerator. But the LHC will fire back up again in early 2011, and from the looks of things it’s shaping up to be a scientifically revealing year (in this dimension, anyhow).

[CERN via ZDnet]

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ok then. this is....eh :/

A sensational headline, but an exciting one nonetheless. Let's hope CERN lives up to our expectations!

Hahahah! And the theories surrounding 2012 get a bit more eerie

Dimensions 5-11 - CHECK

Home-Dimension of Sandra Bernhard - CHECK (though we wish we DIDNT know)

Dimension that filches all of our socks from the laundry - Still searching

"... and could even find evidence of extra dimensions before the end of 2011."

The people making that statement seem to feel that extra dimensions are a foregone conclusion. This is the typical String Theorist attitude. When, in fact, no evidence at all for extra dimensions are found by the end of 2011, the String Theorists would simply push the date a bit further citing -- "oh, if it wasn't for that tiny misalignment here, or that operator's error's there..." The excuses will abound. They will never give up on a theory that simply fails to reflect nature.

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If we could confirm or refute the existence of the Higgs boson by next year, that would be amazing.

Sadly, though, I'll have to chalk this one up to "I'll believe it when I see it". It's been so elusive up to now, and though I grant that I'm not up to date on the latest LHC data, it seems unlikely that suddenly its discovery one year away.

But even if we confirm the HBos exists, things will only really get interesting if/when we learn how to MANIPULATE the Higgs field. Think about it: we could make massive objects (like, say, a rocket) act as though they were low-mass (enabling extremely efficient fuel consumption) or even as though they were massless (speed-of-light travel would then become a possibility in the conventional sense!).

Exciting ideas, but still far away (I'd estimate a century or more, sadly; I wish I could be around when it really happens).

-IMP ;) :)

Thats still assuming *IF* they find a Higgs.
Whats going to make myself and a few other individuals within the theoretical community really grin is when they find the extra dimensions, but not the higgs.

The internet staple: "lol-what?" will really stick out then, as they realize that their entire model is incorrect.

"But this model is based upon Einstein's greatest work!"

Ah, but then theres progress, and to point out the irony in the idea: "Einstein was correct, relative to his own point of view. It just so happens that we cannot yet prove any different points of view that supercede his."
The keyword there being: Yet.

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Unverified claim to be a physicist - check.

"Einstein was wrong" - check.

Refer to the physics community as "they" - check.

... you forgot to mention that you have been ostracised by the physics community for your theories.

GREAT!

Call me if it ACTUALLY DOES find them. I don't care about speculation.

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