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Yesterday, scientists from the European Organization for Nuclear Physics (CERN, for its acronym in English) they collided two beams of protons in the particle accelerator installed in Geneva, hoping to obtain an answer to numerous unknowns in the universe. This, the most important physics project of recent times, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC, Large Hadron Collider), cost 10 billion dollars and beyond the 20 years it took to build it and the contribution of almost half of the astrophysicists of the world, required another ingredient to make it work: GNU / Linux. |
CERN, the organization in charge of the LHC project, is using something known as Scientific Linux, which runs on computers across a network that constitutes a power of approximately 100 CPUs and about 15 petabytes of data per year.
CERN itself has quite a bit of experience with GNU / Linux, and provides strong support for the Scientific Linux distribution, which is a recompiled version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, similar to CentOS.
Considering that the power of the LHC is enough to destroy planet Earth, creating a black hole in space, it is very comforting to know that some of its key pieces are far from the risk of seeing the blue screen of death.
There are teachers, I would like you to enlighten me a little on the subject of the HADRONES collider, if a black hole is a concentration of mass in a certain space (where there is no space or it is constant), my questions are:
1.- How big will the black hole be caused at the time?
2.- How long does it take to evolve this?
3.- Will it increase its size or will its occupation in the universe be constant?
4.- How much energy will it create when the subparticles collide?
5: _ Would we be talking about a nuclear fission by acceleration, and that when reaching their respective speeds they can cause a subatomic catastrophe that would bring climatic consequences?
6.- If energy is obtained from this collision, would we be affecting the oxygen we breathe?
Where did they get that the "power" of the LHC is enough to destroy the planet ?????
Wow! No idea ... good questions. Any help on Wikipedia?
The black hole that would be created would have the same mass (and therefore the same gravitational attraction) of the particles that created it. That is, something miniscule, so small that it would be practically impossible to detect. The hadron collider works at much higher energies than neutron collisions in a nuclear reactor, and does not use fissile elements, so a bomb-style nuclear chain reaction is not feasible. The idea of the LHC is not to obtain energy, it is to measure and observe how subatomic particles are shared at energy densities similar to those of the Big Bang.
This news is nothing new but there is something that I did not know so I am going to tell you that supposedly a hacker entered and almost took control of the machine but fortunately that did not happen from there, no more than wave! also I did not know that in that project they used Linux but hey ... Hopefully and Linux is very safe so that nothing happens!
most of my software is free, and thanks to microsoft's "impeccable courtesy" (relentless hunt), i'm more than sick of them, i'm moving to linux.