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...been primarily concerned with the construction and operation of the ATLAS detector, a cylindrical component of the collider engineered to gather data about the particles that emerge when the machine smashes protons together at energies of 14 trillion electron volts, recreating conditions that may have prevailed only a trillionth of a second after the universe’s inception...
Although even physicists still have difficulty understanding the theory, superstrings may be thought of as one-dimensional bits of energy measuring a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a centimeter in length. Depending on different versions of the theories, these strings may be either open, or closed into a loop, and they interact in two ways: either two strings coalesce into one, or one string splits into two. Depending on how the strings are vibrating and rotating, they can represent any of the known particles of matter, from quarks to electrons. The nature of the interacting particles...
Bustamante had refined his techniques sufficiently by 1997 to grasp a single protein and, applying forces only a trillionth as strong as those the earth exerts on an apple, pull it apart like molecular Velcro. Why bother? To study how proteins and nucleic acids fold into their complex structures. That's a matter of considerable interest to drug designers, who tailor molecules to monkey-wrench the proteins that make us sick...
...original top quarks supposedly emerged from the roiling sea of primordial radiation less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Then, as the universe expanded and cooled, they all but disappeared. Now they occur naturally only under certain conditions. To conjure them up, scientists have to re-create the fiery conditions that followed the Big Bang, not an easy task. Because the top is so heavy, only the most energetic collisions in the Tevatron are capable of producing the particle at all. In addition, this king of quarks has such an infinitesimal lifetime that its presence...
...Laboratory near Chicago report that they may have confirmed the existence of the sixth -- and last -- of the quarks, ghostly particles that are the smallest units of matter. Dubbed a top quark, the elusive particle weighs as much as a gold atom; it enjoyed a brief reign about a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. If the finding is confirmed, scientists will have validated three decades' worth of work that gave rise to the so-called Standard Model of particle physics...