Tycoon<\/a> project began in 2004 and will be tested to its fullest extent on an experimental basis at the CERN laboratories in Geneva once the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) becomes operational.<\/p>\nThis “time machine,” a 27-kilometer underground tunnel between France and Switzerland\u2014the largest in the world\u2014operates at extremely low temperatures (-271\u00b0C) in order to take advantage of the superconductivity of all the cables needed for the electromagnets used to accelerate subatomic particles (hadrons).<\/p>\n
In the experiment scheduled for October 2008, proton beams will collide at speeds very close to the speed of light, recreating (they say) the conditions that existed before the Big Bang.<\/p>\n
There will be a great deal of controversy surrounding this experiment, given the theories put forward by some scientists regarding the possibility of opening time portals to the future.<\/p>\n
In any case, the LHC will generate 15 petabytes of data each year, and consequently, the computational resources needed to enable CERN scientists to process this information will be enormous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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