Does the Large Hadron Collider Actually Disprove Ghosts?

The Large Hadron Collider sit underground , spanning over five mile across beneath the bucolic suburbs of Geneva , Switzerland . This metallic element heavyweight wait on to judge and understand the most basic building blocks of our world . The inquiry stands , then : if spectre are real , should n’t the LHC have find them ?

That , at least , is what British physicist Brian Cox , Advanced Fellow of molecule physics at the University of Manchester , think . He made his opinions clear on the BBC Radio Four’sThe Infinite Monkey Cageradio show last week ( copy fromRealClearScience ):

“ If we want some sort of pattern that carries information about our live electric cell to hang in then we must specify just what medium extend that pattern and how it interacts with the matter atom out of which our bodies are made . We must , in other tidings , invent an extension to the Standard Model of Particle Physics that has escaped spying at the Large Hadron Collider . That ’s almost inconceivable at the energy scales typical of the particle interactions in our body . ”

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In other Logos , he explained , if ghost exist , then they should be capable to interact with the existing particles of the standard model , at the energy scales that life come at .

Now , usually I would jump at the chance to debunk the paranormal … but honestly , that account is horseshit .

I ’m not saying there are ghosts . I do not believe in ghosts . But there are quite a little of theorize atom the Large Hadron Collider has n’t discovered yet , from so - called supersymmetric particles to tiny gloomy matter particle candidate call in axions . “ The investigating of very abject mass low get-up-and-go sorry issue is an ongoing thing , ” Bob Jacobsen , professor at the University of California , Berkeley who play on the LUX benighted topic detector , told Gizmodo . “ We still do n’t know whether axions live . How do you know ghost are n’t made out of axions ? ” Jacobsen told me to caveat this with the fact that he has n’t dug into method for observe ghosts with subatomic particle physics thoroughly , and could be improper .

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But just look at what CERN’swebsitesays about axions :

… The axion is a indifferent and very light ( but not massless ) particle , and it does not interact ( or does it very weakly ) with formal matter . In some direction one can see the axion as a “ strange photon ” . In fact , hypothesis call that the axion , if it exists , could metamorphose into a photon ( and frailty versa ) in the presence of electromagnetic theatre of operations .

sound A LOT LIKE GHOSTS TO ME , MISTER COX .

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Experiments like LUX , a elephantine vat of xenon in South Dakota , XENON , a gargantuan vat of atomic number 54 in an Italian mountain , theCERN Axion Solar Telescope(CAST ) , and others , are actively searching for moody matter particle , and have n’t rule or rule them out yet . Plus , what if the ghosts just did n’t want to hang out at the Large Hadron Collider , when they could be out spooking multitude who really think in ghost ?

Of course , I ’m not saying that trace exist . In fact , I vehemently do not trust in them . I ’m just saying that while the LHC can excuse a whole lot , it has n’t predominate out the existence of ghosts yet .

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