At a depth of more than 100 meters near Geneva, on the border of Switzerland and France is located 26-kilometer Large Hadron Collider. This giant serves as a scientist who tries to understand the nature of the most basic particles of our universe and find the keys to her most intimate secrets. And it is quite possible that one of these secrets is the following question (just do not laugh): if the ghosts are real, should not the LHC have found them?
At least this is the opinion of British physicist and popularizer of science Brian Cox from Manchester University. Taking part in the radio show BBC Radio 4 The Infinite Monkey Cage, he made on this occasion a rather interesting statement, from which it follows that the LHC denied the existence of ghosts:
"Before we turn to the questions, I want to make a statement: today we do not argue on the existence of ghosts. They do not exist. "
Cox continued:
"If we want to preserve a model that contains and carries information about our living cells, we must clearly indicate in which environment this model is located and how it is able to interact with the particles of matter from which our bodies are composed. In other words, we must assume the possibility of an exception in the standard model of elementary particle physics, which managed to avoid its detection inside the Large Hadron Collider. This is unthinkable, taking into account those energy scales that are characteristic for levels of interaction of particles in our body. "
Astrophysicist Neil Degrass Tyson, who also took part in the show, interrupted Cox and asked a clarifying question:
"If I understand correctly, from what you just said, it follows that CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, has denied the existence of ghosts?"
"Yes," said Cox.
"I wanted to say that if there was a substance capable of controlling our bodies, making our arms and legs move, then this substance would have to be able to interact with the particles that make up our bodies. If we take into account the level of accuracy with which the methods of interaction of particles are being studied, my statement is connected with the fact that in the world there is no such source of energy (substance, if you like) that could control our bodies. "
If it's even simpler, he says, this means that if ghosts existed, then they should have the opportunity to interact with the real world through the prism of existing particles from the standard model and at those levels of energy in which life exists.
The topic, it must be admitted, is very muddy. And from the position of some - in general it will seem crazy crazy. Well, or at least something that was not far from alchemy. However, it should be understood that in the walls of the Large Hadron Collider, many theoretically predicted particles have not been found so far. Starting from so-called supersymmetric particles and ending with tiny particles and candidates for the role of dark matter - axions. So, maybe we just have not yet found the particles through which ghosts can interact with particles in our real world?
"The study of the issues of the existence of dark matter continues. We still do not know if there are any axions or not. So how do we know if ghosts from axions are not? "- commented Bob Jacobsen, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, working with the installation of LUX, with which scientists are looking for dark matter.
True, Jacobson also adds here that he has not dealt so deeply with the issue of detecting ghosts through their probable interaction with physical particles, so he may be wrong.
The current description of the axions, at least according to the official CERN website, is as follows:
"Axions are hypothetical neutral and very light (but not massless) particles that do not interact (or practically do not interact) with ordinary matter. To some extent, they can be considered as "strange photons." According to the proposed hypotheses, if the axions really exist, then in the presence of electromagnetic fields they can go into the state of photons and back. "
To be honest, it sounds like a description of the physical embodiment of the ghost, Mr. Cox!
American experiments LUX, Italian XENON, CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) and others continue to actively search for particles of dark matter, but so far nothing has been found. And what if the ghosts simply do not want to be near the Large Hadron Collider and instead are doing exactly the same thing that is required of them - frighten people who believe in them?
In general, what does this topic of the discussion prove and does it prove at all? In fact, it does prove something: despite the fact that the LHC is able to explain to scientists very many aspects of the physics of elementary particles, in fact, it has not yet ruled out the possibility of the existence of ghosts.
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