⚡🌌 CERN: The Most Powerful Machine on Earth Is About to Push Its Limits 🌌⚡ CERN is preparing the High-Luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider, a series of controlled tests designed to prove that the next generation of proton beams can remain stable at unprecedented power levels. These upcoming runs will push the collider’s magnetic systems, cryogenics, and beam stability to their edge. The goal is simple but critical: to ensure the machine can safely contain record-breaking energy before

Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have succeeded in transforming lead into gold, fulfilling an age-old alchemical dream using modern physics. The ALICE team achieved this by colliding lead nuclei at nearly the speed of light. The resulting electromagnetic fields caused three protons to be ejected from the lead atoms during close encounters, thus creating gold. Between 2015 and 2018, 86 billion gold atoms—about 29 picograms—were produced in this way, at a rate of 89,000 atoms per second.

CERN is upgrading the Large Hadron Collider to make even more amazing discoveries. | Interesting Engineering