Attended this lecture by Uwe Bratzler a physicist on what is said to be "the world's largest experiment".
This experiment is an attempt to simulate the bing bang which occurred around 15 billion years ago. The summary of the talk better explains the experiment. The large hadron collider is expected to produce the elusive Higgs boson ("God Particle"), and throw some light on how other elementary particles acquire mass.
Apart from such deep theories on particle physics, the quest is to answer the fundamental questions around the evolution of universe. Wouldn't we all all want to know how did it all start, from nothing to something and how it would all end.
This first stanza is in Sanskrit (Rig Veda, Book 10, Hymn 129)
nāsadāsīn no sadāsīt tadānīṃ nāsīd rajo no vyomāparo yat |
kimāvarīvaḥ kuha kasya śarmannambhaḥ kimāsīd ghahanaṃ ghabhīram ||
Antariksh bhi nahin, aakaash bhee nahin thaa.
Chhipaa thaa kyaa, kahaan, kisne dhaka thaa?
Us pal to agam, atal jal bhi kahaan thaa.
Truth/Good did not exist before the Universe came to be
Neither did Untruth/Evil
Neither did Space
Neither did the sky
What was hidden? Where?
Who had covered it?
At that moment
Unmoving, strong ocean was not there either
-credits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Ek_Khoj
listen to these beautiful lines here
The above lines were made famous by the show "Discovery Of India"( it was played in the title track).
These are the very questions which men pondered upon might have some answers after this experiment.
More on CERN and their experimental setup.
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