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Scientists at Large Hadron Collider hope to make contact with parallel universe in days

March 2015 – GENEVA – The
staggeringly complex LHC ‘atom smasher’ at the CERN centre in Geneva,
Switzerland, will be fired up to its highest energy levels ever in a bid
to detect – or even create – miniature black holes. If successful a
completely new universe will be revealed – rewriting not only the
physics books but the philosophy books too. It is even possible that
gravity from our own universe may ‘leak’ into this parallel universe,
scientists at the LHC say. The experiment is sure to inflame alarmist
critics of the LHC, many of whom initially warned the high energy
particle collider would spell the end of our universe with the creation a
black hole of its own. But so far Geneva remains intact and comfortably
outside the event horizon. Indeed the LHC has been spectacularly
successful. First scientists proved the existence of the elusive Higgs
boson ‘God particle’ – a key building block of the universe – and it is
seemingly well on the way to nailing ‘dark matter’ – a previously
undetectable theoretical possibility that is now thought to make up the
majority of matter in the universe.
But
next week’s experiment is considered to be a game changer. Mir Faizal,
one of the three-strong team of physicists behind the experiment, said:
“Just as many parallel sheets of paper, which are two dimensional
objects [breadth and length] can exist in a third dimension [height],
parallel universes can also exist in higher dimensions. We predict that
gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature
black holes can be produced at the LHC.” Normally, when people think of
the multi-verse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum
mechanics, where every possibility is actualized. “This cannot be
tested and so it is philosophy and not science. This is not what we mean
by parallel universes. What we mean is real universes in extra
dimensions.”
“As gravity can flow out of our
universe into the extra dimensions, such a model can be tested by the
detection of mini black holes at the LHC. 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.” When the LHC is fired up the energy is measured
in Tera electron volts – a TeV is 1,000,000,000,000, or one trillion,
electron Volts. So far, the LHC has searched for mini black holes at
energy levels below 5.3 TeV. But the latest study says this is too low.
Instead, the model predicts that black holes may form at energy levels
of at least 9.5 TeV in six dimensions and 11.9 TeV in 10 dimensions. –Express UK
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