Physicists at the world's largest particle collider have made the most accurate measurement yet of the Higgs boson, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) says. PHOTO: AFP
The particle accelerator or ‘atom smasher’ at the CERN centre in Geneva is scheduled to be switched on again to its highest energy levels with speculations of contacting a parallel universe, and even create small black-holes.
Scientists in 2012 in 2012 were able to prove the existence of Higgs-Boson ‘God particle’-- a key building block of the universe -- with the Large Hadron Collidor (LHC).
The experiment faced criticism and alarmists warned the world with the potential threats to gravity ‘leaks’ and black-holes being created in the centre of the Earth.
However, scientists are hopeful to rewrite the laws of physics when the experiment is conducted again next week.
“Just as many parallel sheets of paper, which are two dimensional objects can exist in a third dimension, parallel universes can also exist in high dimensions,” says Mir Faizal who is one of the three physicists behind the experiment.
“We predict that gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC,” says Faizal.
Energy is measured in Tera electron volts (TeV) in this accelerator- a TeV is one trillion electron volts.
Last time, mini black holes were found at 5.3 TeV, and the latest experiment hopes to to fire up the LHC with 13 TeV in 10 dimensions.
Faizal says “we have calculated the energy at which we expect to detect these mini black holes in ‘gravity's rainbow’ [a new scientific theory].”
“If we do detect mini black holes at this energy, then we will know that both gravity's rainbow and extra dimensions are correct."
This article originally appeared on Express.Co.uk
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