Background: The research team controlling the Hadron Collider Tuesday broke new ground in physics by colliding 2 beams in a massive underground tunnel on the border of Switzerland and France. The collider may help scientists discover new properties of nature. There thinking they could reveal the theoretical Higgs boson, also called "the God particle" in popular parlance, could emerge within two or three years, said Steve Myers. Evidence of super symmetry, the idea of finding hidden dimensions many physicists believe in could start up as early as 2010. Although the Hadron Collider has been plagued with many problems since the this massive experiment has started, this is the breakthrough they needed to start getting some good hard data.
Opinion: To me most of this stuff is over my head about "the God particle" and such, but this is a major break through in science. They are creating massive amounts of energy with this thing when the beams collide. It created enough energy to run every electronic and everything that uses electricity to last one and a half years. So to me this sounds like not only a major break through in physics, but a major break through in creating energy. Just think what this one major experiment could do for our future energy needs... There are still many things we would have to do to make it safe, but with technology and science these days and in the future. I'm thinking this thing will be supplying our whole world with energy in the future.
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