Journey into CERN, the world's largest experiment - The Mundo.es

tunnel Large Hadron Collider (LHC, for its acronym in English) at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is nearly 27 miles in circumference and is installed on the French-Swiss border. There is restricted access to experimenters. But now the Science Museum in London has approached LCH with exposure Collider: step inside the world’s greatest experiment (Colisonador: access into the world’s largest experiment). day exhibition opens to the public November 13 and will remain open for the next six months.

Collider is the first recreation that has become international physics laboratory. Professor Peter Higgs, flamboyant Nobel Laureate in Physics 2013, blessed with his presence yesterday, and modesty, the exhibition also tells the story of the Higgs boson, a proposal he made in 1964 and was announced as a discovery by CERN in July 2012. Along with more sophisticated devices physics, the exhibition also displays objects less scientific and more personal as the champagne the professor shared it with colleagues on July 3, 2012 , the day before the announcement of the discovery of the famous particle.

“How do you visualize the Higgs boson?” , they ask the teacher at the opening of the show, to which he responds as follows: “I do not visualize any way, is a result and a product that you do not know how to display “. The exhibition curator, Alison Boyle, adventure after viewing the Higgs boson, the next step is to add color to the particles. “We have agreed that they should be yellow,” jokes the curator.

exhibition places the discovery of the Higgs boson between scientific event for minorities and majorities-cultural event to endure six months few exhibitions calendar. With respect to the popularization of his theory, the professor believes that “advertising is generating all this, from discovery to the Nobel and / or this exhibition will embarrass scientists so what to do from now with discovery. ” “It is clear that this has started an interest in fundamental physics that had not been seen before” , he added Higgs, adding that “by the emails that I receive to me, there is still much very ignorance and misunderstanding in the general public about fundamental physics. “

Apparently the last

Nobel Prize in Physics, is crucial to establish a partnership between the scientific community and untrained areas to disseminate knowledge and information. “Both sides-those who have no training in fundamental physics and those who want to disclose, should be aware that most people do not know more than I knew [Isaac] Newton”, adds the professor, moved these days from Edinburgh ( Scotland) habitual residence to London.

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Professor Rolf Heuer, CERN Director General, also participated in the presentation of Collider and warned that “this exhibition competition will make me the number of visitors that arrive to Geneva to learn fundamental physics , which do not have here is the 200 teachers with 200 egos that we have there [Switzerland] “.

exposure trip as the large collider, aptly recreates the work environment in the LCH but not really know what are the objectives of the task in which all are busy. Scientists appear on screen size and easy explaining informative function in the scientific and experimental conglomerate. The exhibition includes documentation and objects, such as a transistor of the 1960s, involved in the development of physical science. All aimed to discover how the universe began.