Hadron Collider hopes to make contact with parallel universe

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest particle accelerator. It first fired up back in 2008, and so far the machine has proved the existence of the so-called ‘God Particle’ and is also getting close to detecting ‘dark matter’. Next week, the collider will be turned on at its highest energy level ever, in an attempt to create or detect miniature black holes.

Inside the accelerator are two energy particle beams that travel close to the speed of light which are made to collide in order to smash subatomic particles together. Such collisions reveal the smaller building blocks that make up these particles.

When the LHC is fired up next week, the energy used is measured in TeV (Tera electron volts). A TeV is one trillion, electron volts. In the past, the LHC has operated at energy levels below 5.3 TeV.  Some studies suggest however that mini-black holes can be created at energy levels of at least 9.5 TeV in six dimensions. Additionally, if the collider operates at 11.9 TeV it could detect 10 dimensions. So next week’s operation of the collider could detect extra dimensions when gravity from our universe leaks out to into extra dimensions. Mir Faizal of the University of Waterloo put it this way:

“As gravity can flow out of our universe into the extra dimensions, such a model can be tested by the detection of mini black holes at the LHC.”

So what will the latest tests on the Hadron Collider show us. Well we don’t have too long to wait. Of course it will take a bit longer to process the data and then make it available for the public, but whatever the outcome, it is sure to reveal more secrets of the universe and what it is made up of. After all, we have already discovered and learned a lot already from the LHC when it was operated at lover TeV. But next week, the LHC could even go as far as detecting parallel universes. What is meant by the term ‘ parallel universes’ here are not alternative universes similar to ours but where things turn out slightly differently, rather other universes that exist in other dimensions.

While this may sound all a bit far fetched, there are theories and math that logically explain extra dimensions and it is not too hard to accept. Once mankind believed that the world was flat and that the sun went around the earth. At some point it was discovered that most stars in the sky were other suns like ours that probably had planets, and then it was realised that all the stars we can see with the naked eye exist in our Milky Way galaxy and that there are billions of other galaxies. So why should the universe stop there. Perhaps our universe is but one of many in a greater construct that is commonly called by the term the ‘Metaverse’.

While great strides in understanding were made about our universe through telescopes and mathematical theories, the world of Quantum completely messed things up again when the study of the smallest particles revealed a universe that made little sense to what we had previously observed.

While the larger universe could be explained beautifully by Newton and Einstein, we need to also realise that the universe is made up from things in the Quantum world which seems to be illogical to our observation. This is why the LHC is important to understanding our universe. It is perhaps even more important than the Hubble Telescope and other bigger telescopes in revealing the secrets of our universe. Besides creating larger telescopes that could see beyond our universe, the LHC now has the potential to see other universes and dimensions. Perhaps the LHC could even prove that there is indeed a Metaverse.