An experiment at Cern Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is one of the experiments which are about to take data at the LHC accelerator at Cern, near Geneva.
Cern is the largest laboratory for the study of particle physics.
This picture was taken almost one year ago, during the installation of the experiment.
These experiment will provide very important new informations on the way nature behaves at very small spatial scale.
It is worth to say that the story of the black hole which could be created at LHC and would destroy the earth is nonsense. But many people prefere to believe tales rather than correct informations.
And mass media prefere to give news in this way, to sell more copies of newspapers.

Here you can see the hole of the shaft from which the pieces of the detector were put into the cavers (100 meters high), a part of the detector, and the beam pipe which goes into the accelerator tunnel.
And lots of cables...

About 2000 researchers work to this experiment, which was built and installed in almost 10 years, plus sevral other years of research and developmnet before.

FOr details about cern: www.cern.ch
For details about LHC, http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html
For details about this experiment: http://cms.cern.ch/
For a correct information on the risks at Cern:
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html

rigoletto, casperduppy, tomescuc, Clementi, ktanska, bobocortis has marked this note useful

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mesutilgim (36657) 2008-09-17 13:35

Hi Stefano,
Wonderfull capture with this very popular theme. Good pov and amazing compo with very nice colors and nice info's.
TFS and best regards
MESUT ILGIM

mirarer (4320) 2008-09-17 13:45

Hi Stefano,
Are you involved in the project?. I find this information very interesting. As a TV worker I agree with you about the media coverage.
Auguri,
Mirari

cobra112 (11400) 2008-09-17 13:50

Bella presa molto nitida per questo groviglio di cavi e circuiti. Al di la' delle sparate giornalistiche mi sento di ringraziare per quanto fatto e augurare buon lavoro a tutti coloro che si sono cimentati in questa impresa.

Roberto

brandstaetter (14054) 2008-09-17 13:54

Hi Stefano,
yes, I saw the hype about the black hole on youtube...
Best thing to discover would be a clean energy source..let´s see..
Thanks also for the note..
oh..ciao, complimenti, Christian

giorgimer (21034) 2008-09-17 14:07

Ciao Stefano,

soggetto interessantissimo ed attualissimo. Belli i dettagli e i colori.

Complimenti!

Gio

casperduppy (1462) 2008-09-17 14:54

Hi Stefano,

What an interesting shot and note! I am almost thought it was a spaceship from the thumbnail. Now I see it actually is a spaceship -- but an underground one! :)

Good Luck! Casper

tomescuc (2837) 2008-09-17 16:50

Tfs this one, a fascinating place with many expectations. Higgs boson, anyone?
CT

rigoletto (26172) 2008-09-18 2:03

i knew that you are a physicist, but had no idea about your involvement in the most expensive experiment of the millenium. so, you must be a particle physicist, which means that you are a kind of genius.
regardless of the artistic aspects, this one is one of the most interesting photos i've seen on TE. learning about the world? nooo, this is much much more: learning about the universe. i think TE has never been so deep into hard core science :))
rgs,
deniz

stefanocer (10403) 2008-09-18 3:09

Bravo Stefano , ottima foto di CMS sia tecnicamente che a livello artistico con un pov dal basso molto ben studiato , in questi giorni sto spulciando anchio tra le mie di ATLAS per postarne qualcuna , bella nota e link , complimenti.
Stefano.

ktanska (16524) 2008-09-18 3:15

Hi Stefano,
Both the experiment and visual looks of that equipment approach science fiction. Well composed industrial shot. I like all those colourful details.
Kari

sevy (13302) 2008-09-18 4:14

Hello,

No so often we are seeing photos from this place. Interesting because this hard and huge equipment is evidencing artistic aspect as modern art although it is purely functional.
The composition shows well the tool and its environment.

Yves.

bobocortis (14140) 2008-09-18 4:15

Ciao Stefano.
Ben pensata e ben realizzata questa foto piena di colori del laboratorio dove si cerca la "particella di Dio".
Grande equilibrio degli elementi nello spazio.
Ciao.
Bobo.

Clementi (43757) 2008-09-18 6:27

Ciao Stefano,
ci voleva una bella foto di questo accelleratore di particelle, tutti ne parlano in questo periodo. Nel mio paese ce ne e' uno piu' piccolo ma pur sempre importante.
grazie per questa bella foto
Giorgio

archimatica (13252) 2008-09-18 14:20

Non è che stai involntariamente divulgando dettagli relativi ad un progetto scientifico d'avanguardia? Per esempio, si legge chiaramente che questa macchina usa fili rossi e blu come nella automobili... Sto scherzando!
Complimenti per la foto ma particolarmente per lo step professionale raggiunto. Ce ne saranno altri, te lo auguro.
Ciao
Renzo

romanaa (2551) 2008-09-28 11:27

Hello Stefano,

I like your colourful picture and your note very much. First time I read about Cern was in Brown's Da Vinci Code and I was no sure it was a fact or a fiction, I have, of course seen this accelerator on TV since then, but I wonder - How did you get there?

Best regards
Romana