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After discovery of Higgs Boson, CERN seeks new mission
A YEAR ago, the world’s largest particle collider made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science, identifying what is believed to be the Higgs Boson – the long-sought maker of mass.
Today, its computer screens are dark, the control desks unstaffed and the giant, supercooled tunnel empty of the crashing proton beams whose snapshots of the Big Bang helped flush out the elusive particle.
But the silence is an illusion.
Behind the scenes, work is pushing ahead to give the vast machine a mighty upgrade, enabling it to advance the frontiers of knowledge even farther.
The 27-kilometre circular lab, straddling the French-Swiss border 100 metres underground, went offline in February for an 18-month overhaul.
And when experiments resume in 2015, scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) will use its enhanced power to probe dark matter, dark energy and supersymmetry – ideas considered as wild as the Higgs Boson was, half a century ago.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-te…z2b0x5NBSP
Source: http://yeoldefalseflag.com/thread-after-discovery-of-higgs-boson-cern-seeks-new-mission
