Dubna is going to launch an analogue of the Large Hadron collider, because of which scientists were accused of trying to destroy humanity.
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Perhaps since the “discovery” of the Bermuda Triangle, whose the effect on fragile minds is so vividly described by Vysotsky in a comic song, not a single undertaking of scientists caused such a commotion in society like building the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. Hotheads claimed our planet would be lost in the resulting black hole will either dissolve in antimatter.
Bestselling author Dan Brown immediately hit Angels and Demons, where the plot is built around an antimatter bomb (see “Solid cinema “). Soon scientists of CERN (European Center for Nuclear research, which manages the LHC) discovered the so-called a particle of God, or the Higgs boson, giving a mass of all matter in The universe. But the 2013 Nobel Prize did not help the collider get rid of the reputation of the project, which needs an eye and an eye.
And here’s the news: the hadron collider is being built in the suburbs! KP correspondents went to Dubna, where on the territory Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) began to build a giant experimental facility.
SUPERPOWER RACE
The site on which the 500-meter ring will be built Collider, located 120 kilometers north of Moscow on the banks of the Volga River. JINR Vice-Director Grigory Trubnikov, whom without any concealment, I laid out the whole truth about black holes and the coming end light, respectfully nodding his head.
“Absurdity, of course, complete,” he summed up. – But from the point of view PR is the ingenious move of CERN. They are so interested around the collider inflated – just fantastic! Such advertising allowed them untwist. It remains for us to strive for our project to have the same correct PR. For science, this is important …
At one time, the lack of PR around the collider cost a lot to scientists. That same Higgs boson should have been discovered yet 20 years ago, either we or the Americans. Then after the battle for primacy in space, where we managed to wash the Yankees, “a particle of God” became the subject of a new race of two superpowers.
In 1983, both Americans in Texas and we in Protvin near Moscow – began to build colliders. Orbit length ours – 21 kilometers, it’s almost like the Moscow Ring Line Metro. The USSR allocated for the construction of more than a million Soviet rubles a day! Both projects reached the finish stage, but when the USSR �collapsed, the project died. US President Clinton immediately closed his expensive answer. Now in the USA consider this decision of Clinton fatal mistake: the implementation of the project of the era would give them the basis for long-term hegemony is not only in science.
Who is the Nobel?
The question arises: if a collider already exists in CERN, then why not experiment on it? Why build in Russia his younger brother (in Dubna, and the ring is less, and energy a thousand times below) and spend billions of rubles?
“These are different areas of physics,” says Grigory Trubnikov. -Now in the world there are 6 – 7 super-priority tasks. Higgs boson already is open. But we are interested in another area: phase transitions in nuclear matter that occurred at an early stage of nucleation Universe, about one microsecond after the Big the explosion.
To simulate this situation, a powerful installation is not needed. Let me give you an example: you are interested in how water moves from one state of aggregation (liquid) in par. You can heat water to 1000 degrees, it will instantly evaporate, but you will not see anything. And we, relatively speaking, we heat the nuclear “kettle” to 100 degrees and we see how bubbles form, water boils and steam turns out … That is phase transition and mixed phase of the substance are observed.
In addition to us, three more centers operate in this area: in Germany, Switzerland and the USA. Everyone understands that observing a phase transition in nuclear matter – this is definitely the Nobel Prize. But get her only the one of the four centers that comes first.
– Who is now closest to the finish line? -I already ask the director of the Laboratory of High Energy Physics, JINR Professor Vladimir Kekelidze.
– Firstly, I strongly doubt that the Nobel Prize will receive Someone alone, – Vladimir Dmitrievich answers. – Any discovery, made in one scientific center, the world community may not to accept. For the results, you can give out systematic errors, misunderstood effects, etc. Need an independent approach with a different parties repeating this phenomenon. I think if there will be Nobel Prize, we will share it with someone. Whoever discoverer.
WHAT THE SCIENTISTS ARE LOOKING FOR
The cost of the Swiss collider is 7 billion euros. Budget our in Dubna is estimated at 17 billion rubles (about 0.5 billion Euro). What is such money spent for?
– On this subject ex-president of France Sarkozy spoke well, – says Vladimir Kekelidze. – He recalled a famous story: “Faraday did not discover electricity by innovating a candle.” Can upgrade the candle as much as you like, but a new round of progress only gives new knowledge. What opportunities will give us understanding phase transition of nuclear matter? We know what has given humanity nuclear power. But nuclear forces are only the residual effects of those forces that bind quarks to each other. If we can manage those infinite forces that lurk there, it will give people fantastic opportunities!
What revolutionary technology do scientists mean? The most daring hopes are connected with the solution of the global problem of mankind – energy deficit. According to the World Energy Council, oil reserves will last only 56 years. It is possible that experiments at the Russian collider will bring us closer to getting technologies of new safe nuclear energy. And this is what the hell not jokes, makes travel to other planets possible and galaxies …
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