Mini Big Bangs Created At The Large Hadron Collider

[Naru523]

While I was looking stuff on doujinstyle, found out that CERN made mini Big Bangs in the the Large Hadron Collider.

http://www.newstime.co.za/ScienceandTech/Mini_Big_Bangs_Created_At_The_Large_Hadron_Collider/14652/

Scientists have succeeded in recreating minute versions of the Big Bang, the large explosion that is believed to have created the universe.

The recreations were conducted at the multi-billion dollar Large Hadron Collider at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN).

The particle collisions were created during the Alice experiment.

The experiment involves smashing lead ions together at speeds approaching that of light with massive amounts of energy and heat generated.

The experiment involved using magnets to spin the ions around the underground tunnels at the LHC at speeds approaching that of light.

The particles were then in a narrow beam and forced to collide inside the massive Alice "detector".

The Alice experiment involves over 1,000 experts in physics, science and engineering from 30 countries and over 100 institutions therein.

A member of the Alice experiment, Dr David Evans of the University of Birmingham said : "The collisions generated mini Big Bangs and the highest temperatures and densities ever achieved in an experiment.

"This process took place in a safe, controlled environment generating incredibly hot and dense sub-atomic fireballs with temperatures of over 10 trillion degrees, a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun."

[Chaotic Cow]

Daaaaaannnnnnggggg. This is awesome. I LOVE SCIENCE.

[Alex_Ian_Hamilton]

Yep, that's one lovely toy they have there.
Fingers crossed it'll help us figure out what the heck Dark Matter is made of... :-)

[Naru523]

It's amazing after all of that heat, it still works.

[Darvince]

How does steel survive 10,285,711,824,163°C?

[Chaotic Cow]

Probably the same reason lightning doesn't always start a fire.

It happens so quickly it doesn't give time to burn/melt.

[I Like Universe Sandbox]

Now we're getting smarter!

[Darvince]

Interesting username...

[Naru523]

Yay. Another person from California. 

[Bla]

How does steel survive 10,285,711,824,163°C?

Think about the total amount of energy. If you have to melt ice and have a large bucket of water next to a small cup of water, even if they have the same temperature, you can melt a lot more with the water in the bucket.
You'd require more than a few lead ions to melt a whole wall billions of molecules thick, like you'd require more than a cup of water (or a ton of burning coal, whatever) to melt... Let's say Greenland.

[Laura]

How does steel survive 10,285,711,824,163°C?

The "fireballs" are on a sub-atomic scale and last for an incredibly short time and heat propagates poorly in a vacuum. That said, the interior walls of a particle collider does get eroded gradually (for lack of a better word); the metal is weakened subtly and turned radioactive by neutron bombardment, for example, much like the walls of a reactor core. Elements will have to be replaced at some point.

[Darvince]

How does steel survive 10,285,711,824,163°C?

The ions of the atoms atom barely enough to create a melting process, because they are so small.

Duh that was an idiotic question.

[Darvince]

ONTOPIC PART : So are there mini-universes now floating around Earth?

[Naru523]

ONTOPIC PART : So are there mini-universes now floating around Earth?

Apparently yes. But they have a short-life time.  

[Darvince]

Which means that there's galaxies in galaxies.  Now I know that it's too small for that, but w/e.