Transformer breaks on world's largest atom smasher by Radka Konkolova

People are very curious creations from the nature. I think we have wanted to know more about our history and of history of the planet we live on. This must be certainly very interesting, but there are still many obscurities about the “born” of our home planet, Earth.

So scientists have always wanted to find out more and construct the device which would be capable to simulate the “Big Bang”. Consequently they have been successful in creating of this thing. They have created the world’s largest atom smasher. It lays underground two countries of Europe, Switzerland and France. It is really something huge with circumference of 17 miles (27 kilometres). Actually it is big tunnel where the long ray of protons goes through. All of this works on the principal of collision of particles. This happens in very high speed and in very low temperatures that means near the temperature of “absolute zero”. 0K or -273, 15°C is the temperature where the movement of anything, even movement of protons and electrons, should be entirely delayed.

The construction of this machine has been praised but on the other hand, there were also many cons, because some people are afraid it could have a bad impact on the whole population and generally on the Earth when something happened.

This machine was put into the operation some time last week, but problems have already occurred. It had to be stopped for some short time because there was something wrong with one very important part of it. Its transformer was out of operation for some time because of damage in the electricity. And because the electricity is very important for the transformer what is something like a huge fridge, also the rest of the machine had to be set away.

Now it seems everything is alright, although there can always happen something unexpectedly. Anyway, this machine is in something like phase of testing and it is predicted it will reach the full performance in 2010.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_sc/eu_big_bang;_ylt=AuYKyZaSMrLsgyR2nGhxPuOs0NUE

by Radka Konkolova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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