six decades ago was old Europe take flight while wounds were healing a nightmare of tragic dimensions. The barbarism that had penetrated the reality of the continent during the disastrous previous decades led to a redefinition obsession until the last fringe of society. Science took his degree of responsibility in a time that seemed to leave his humanist inspiration to stand in the service of destruction. Thereafter, the investigation would resume a path that should never leave: peace and progress. This spirit prompted the creation of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which celebrates its sixtieth anniversary with an overview of the most important milestones and its history in a lecture hosted by the BBVA Foundation challenges.
The land through which pass the more than 11,000 scientists, 500 of them Spanish, involved in its many projects are difficult to assume importance for the uninitiated. Finding the ‘God particle’-flamboyant and controversial label used in the media to refer to the Higgs boson, we approached his complex work. We could then understand the importance of this extraordinary architectural work was the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), active since 2008 in a tunnel 27 kilometers in circumference dug in Geneva. CERN is now proposed to explain not only the discoveries of physics, but its role in the development of technologies that have come to define daily life.
One of the most ambitious projects of the institution could mark a turning point in the detection and treatment of cancer. In collaboration with the hospital in Marseille, CERN working on a new set of mammograms that allow the detection of tumors three or four times smaller, making possible an early diagnosis to “make a big difference in the probability of survival” as said Sergio Bertolucci, scientific director of the center, who expects the system “may be available to hospitals in a year.”
Revolutionizing Medicine
This device combines the strengths of two milestones CERN: positron emission tomography, nuclear medicine, in clinical terms, and an improved ultrasonic ultrasound classical variant. The windows of his performance lies in the use of “one type of sensor more refined”, whose efficacy is “three or four times” higher than usual in detecting calcifications, reaching locate tumors 1 to 1.5 mm.
But the medical implications of this discipline does not stop there. Particle physics has spent years removing the foundations of cancer medicine. His is the technique that uses beams of protons to radiate the most effective and less harmful to the body than other radiotherapy systems tumor cells.
CERN But the implications are not limited to the realm of science. Tim Berners-Lee worked in the laboratories of Geneva in 1989 when he conceived the ‘World Wide Web’, the system of distribution of information through the internet, which set the basis for standardizing the digital revolution that has transformed society. Even the touch screen, an infiltrator so amazing in our routine, technology was born under his roof. Neither happened findings by the patent office. And is that as Bertolucci said, “the success of an idea is that everyone can use it.”
Back to the field of physics, the most exciting challenges facing the institution and will be shredded in the papers, is the finding of supersymmetry, a theory that would exceed the current standard model of particle physics and could shed light on the enigmatic subject
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