Speaking at the 142nd session of the CERN1 Council today, the Organization's Director General Robert Aymar announced that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will start up in May 2008, taking the first steps towards studying physics at a new high-energy frontier.
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The first sector of CERN1's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to be cooled down has reached a temperature of 1.9 K ("‘271°C), colder than deep outer space! Although just one-eighth of the LHC ring, this sector is the world's largest superconducting installation.
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For decades, many scientists have criticized string theory, pointing out that it does not make predictions by which it can be tested. Now, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University; the University of California, San Diego; and The University of Texas at Austin have developed a test of string theory.
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