Prominent researchers are congregating at Germany at the ancient city of Darmstadt for the development of a newest €1.2 billion particle accelerator; do you still remember the Van De Graff’s generator? The particle accelerator would help them simulate the ‘Big Bang’.
Scientists opine that Big Bang was the foundation that helped our universe to grow and evolve. This huge outburst of matter and energy, just like a nuclear detonation, gave birth to our universe. By simulating such massive explosion of matter and energy, scientists would very well be able to judge what exactly happened at the time of this Big Bang!
Horst Stöcker, scientific director of the German Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) opined that -
This laboratory will be recreating a mini version of the Big Bang; the substance we will be making resembles that in the first microseconds of the Big Bang, when it was a million times hotter than the center of the sun. We are talking a million times 10 million degrees Celsius.
The project is called the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) and will cost a total of €1.2 billion ($1.7 billion) with the German government dishing out 65 percent of the price tag.
Researchers believe that an accelerated atomic nucleus can help them understand the exact nature of atomic debris created during this flare-up which inturn would help them judge the forces holding atoms mutually. The CERN at present focuses on the concentration of its particle beam rather than on the speed attained.
