Big Bang Experiment

The most avaited BIG BANG EXPERIMENT, beginning today, is expected to bring out many surprises about our universe and its origin. The experiment is carried out by The European Organisation for Nuclear Research known as the CERN which is the largest particle physics laboratory in the world situated in the Swiss-French border. The major function of the CERN is to provide particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research. Robert Aymar, the head of the CERN research centre who is a the French physicist, predicted that discoveries to emerge from his organization's 6.4 billion euro ($9.2 billion) project would spark major advances for human society.

The scientists are planning to smash beams of particle together at velocities close to the velocity of light inside CERN's tightly-sealed Large Hadron Collider to create multiple mini-versions of the primeval Big Bang.

According to cosmologists explosion of an object of the size of a small coin which occurred around 13.7 billion years back, led to the formation of stars, planets which eventually lead to life on earth.

An important aim of the CERN experiment is to find "Higgs boson" which is named after the Scottish physicist Peter Higgs who pointed to such a particle as the force which gave mass to matter and which made the universe possible, which he did in 1964.

Also some other mysteries of physics and cosmology like the dark matter, dark energy and supersymmetry are also at the focus of experiments.

It is carried out in a 27-kilometer or 17-mile circular tunnel deep underneath the borders of Switzerland and France.

The experiment has aroused a fear of disaster. There were claims that can create "black holes" having intensive gravity sucking in CERN, the Europe and may be the whole earth, or that it will open the way for beings from another universe to invade through a "worm hole" in space-time.

But a safety review by scientists at CERN and in the United States of America and the Russia, rejected the prospect of such outcomes.