A proton-proton collision at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN laboratory in Geneva that produced more than 100 charged particles. CREDIT: CERN

In a development physicists are calling “huge,” “tantalizing” and “unexpected,” researchers have measured a signal that could herald a new kind of particle or force of nature.

Yet the finding is not yet conclusive, and leaves many researchers skeptical.

The discovery comes from an atom smasher called the Tevatron at the Fermilab physics laboratory in Batavia, Ill. Inside the accelerator there, particles are ramped up to near the speed of light as they race around a 4 mile (6.3 km) ring. When two particles collide, they disintegrate into other exotic particles in a powerful outpouring of energy.

Scientists analyzed thousands of these collisions, and found a suspicious pattern in about 250 more cases than predicted. In these instances, the products of the collision between a proton and its antimatter partner, the antiproton, were different than expected.

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Hadron Collider

Scientists claim the giant atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being jinxed from the future to save the world.

In a bizarre sci-fi theory, Danish physicist Dr Holger Bech Nielsen and Dr Masao Ninomiya from Japan claim nature is trying to prevent the LHC from finding the elusive Higgs boson. Called the “God particle,” the theoretical boson could explain the origins of mass in the universe — if physicists can find the darn thing.
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Proton vs. Proton (Wikipedia)

I recently published two articles discussing Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In both those articles, I reported concerns that the Collider may pose serious safety threats. Included in the second article entitle “Will Black Holes swallow Switzerland” was a definition of a black hole and the potential consequences should a “mini black hole” be created in under the Swiss countryside.
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Hadron Collider: Will we be sucked in?

Better than on the edge of a desk!

THE “big bang machine” which some fear could cause the end of the world will be switched back on in October.<

The £4bn large hadron collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.

Buried deep under the the Franco-Swiss border at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern), the machine is designed to collide opposing particle beams at near light speed.
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