Proof of Extra Dimensions from the LHC and CERN

[LongTomH]

From ABC News: Proof of Extra Dimensions Possible Next Year: CERN:

GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists at the CERN research center say their "Big Bang" project is going beyond all expectations and the first proof of the existence of dimensions beyond the known four could emerge next year.

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Guido Tonelli, spokesman for one of the CERN specialist teams monitoring operations in the vast, subterranean LHC, said probing for extra dimensions -- besides length, breadth, height and time -- would become easier as the energy of the proton collisions in it is increased in 2011.

They missed the fact that the LHC is now running with heavy lead ions.

Other CERN physicists say the success so far of the world's largest scientific project suggests that some great enigmas of the universe they have in their sights could be at least partly resolved much sooner than they thought.

"One year ago, it would have been impossible for us to guess that the machine and the experiments could achieve so much so quickly," said Fabiola Gionotti, spokeswoman for another research team in the surveys, issued on CERN's website (www.cern.org).

Actually, Cern's website is: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/

The physicists at CERN also hope to have proven or disproven the existence of the Higss Boson by the end of next year, thus confirming - or disproving - the current model of sub-atomic physics.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. I hope my other dimensional self is faring better.

:cry: