Pros And Cons Of Large Hadron Collider
Large Hadron Collider: Will it get a Positive or Negative charge?
Executive Summary
I’ve come to learn through extensive research on the Large Hadron Collider that there are viewpoints, which seem to be set to a stalemate. First the pro benefits to the LHC include ideas such as the possibility to increase the energy efficiency of viewing particle reactions by a factor of four. We may also look at how it examines such issues as: the flow of "interlaced" knowledge between specialist teams; the intra- and inter-organizational dynamics of "big science". “Big science” being what they refer to the new capabilities they plan on discovering using this technology. Although this positive outlook looks very convincing there are cons. Firstly there …show more content…
Prof Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, said: "The LHC will increase the energy at which we can study particle interactions by a factor of four."
Source: http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/Management/OrganizationalBehavior/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5OTU2NzkyOA==, Collisions and Collaboration; The Organization of Learning in the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC
The kind of "big science" being pursued at CERN, however, is becoming ever more uncertain and costly. Do the anticipated benefits justify the efforts and the costs? This book aims to give a broad organizational and strategic understanding of the nature of "big science" by analyzing one of the major experiments that uses the Large Hadron Collider, the ATLAS Collaboration. It examines such issues as: the flow of "interlaced" knowledge between specialist teams; the intra- and inter-organizational dynamics of "big science"; the new knowledge capital being created for the workings of the experiment by individual researchers, suppliers, and e-science and ICTs; the leadership implications of a collaboration of nearly three thousand members; and the benefits for the wider societal …show more content…
The safety of the LHC beam dump had previously been reviewed by the relevant regulatory authorities of the CERN host states, France and Switzerland. The specific concerns expressed more recently have been addressed in a technical memorandum by Assmann et al. As they point out, fusion reactions can be maintained only in material compressed by some external pressure, such as that provided by gravity inside a star, a fission explosion in a thermonuclear device, a magnetic field in a Tokamak, or by continuing isotropic laser or particle beams in the case of inertial fusion. In the case of the LHC beam dump, it is struck once by the beam coming from a single direction. There is no countervailing pressure, so the dump material is not compressed, and no fusion is
Executive Summary
I’ve come to learn through extensive research on the Large Hadron Collider that there are viewpoints, which seem to be set to a stalemate. First the pro benefits to the LHC include ideas such as the possibility to increase the energy efficiency of viewing particle reactions by a factor of four. We may also look at how it examines such issues as: the flow of "interlaced" knowledge between specialist teams; the intra- and inter-organizational dynamics of "big science". “Big science” being what they refer to the new capabilities they plan on discovering using this technology. Although this positive outlook looks very convincing there are cons. Firstly there …show more content…
Prof Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, said: "The LHC will increase the energy at which we can study particle interactions by a factor of four."
Source: http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/Management/OrganizationalBehavior/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5OTU2NzkyOA==, Collisions and Collaboration; The Organization of Learning in the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC
The kind of "big science" being pursued at CERN, however, is becoming ever more uncertain and costly. Do the anticipated benefits justify the efforts and the costs? This book aims to give a broad organizational and strategic understanding of the nature of "big science" by analyzing one of the major experiments that uses the Large Hadron Collider, the ATLAS Collaboration. It examines such issues as: the flow of "interlaced" knowledge between specialist teams; the intra- and inter-organizational dynamics of "big science"; the new knowledge capital being created for the workings of the experiment by individual researchers, suppliers, and e-science and ICTs; the leadership implications of a collaboration of nearly three thousand members; and the benefits for the wider societal …show more content…
The safety of the LHC beam dump had previously been reviewed by the relevant regulatory authorities of the CERN host states, France and Switzerland. The specific concerns expressed more recently have been addressed in a technical memorandum by Assmann et al. As they point out, fusion reactions can be maintained only in material compressed by some external pressure, such as that provided by gravity inside a star, a fission explosion in a thermonuclear device, a magnetic field in a Tokamak, or by continuing isotropic laser or particle beams in the case of inertial fusion. In the case of the LHC beam dump, it is struck once by the beam coming from a single direction. There is no countervailing pressure, so the dump material is not compressed, and no fusion is