Cern scientists expect to find answers to many important subjects of physics such as the origin of universe, up to now explained with the big bang theory. Since the boson seems tied to the very origin of the universe, hence to the beginning of life, boson is also known as god particle.
Concern is also spreading about the possible dangerous outcoming of the experiment cern scientists are going to perform, since there are rumors that a black hole could be generated along the execution of this test.
One of them commented that "the chance that a sustainable black hole will form and consume the earth is quite small".
There is a joke going around in the latest hours that says :
"quite small chance" sounds better than "we don't know exactly what the hell will happen".
Going back to serious matters, Stephen William Hawking, the world famous British theoretical physicist bet 100 euros that the Higgs will not be found during this test.
Physics is not my turf, but I do wonder, as an electronic engineer, how complex is this lhc control system, and how much accurate and sensitive a measurement system to detect such a tiny particle as a boson (also called Higgs after the British physicist, Peter Higgs) must be?
So while the cern countdown for the first beam is ticking towards the starting ignition, the BIG QUESTION flashes in my mind:
On which kind of microcontroller are the control/measurement systems based on ?