Brian Greene,a physicist at the columbia university,co-founder of world science day and an advocate of string theory is upto proving string theory.He is behind the idea of constructing the worlds biggest particle accelerator,scheduled to be built by summer 2008.This is a large Hadron collider(shown in figure) being constructed by CERN near Geneva, switzerland.
Brian Greene says that this machine will slam protons against protons at incredibly high speeds.There is a chance that in the debris from those collisions a hint to the string theory can be found!There is a possibility of hearing harmonics or resonance of strings in these collisions.
If string theory is proved right,this may be the well unified theory that may satisfy quantum mechanics as well as gravitational theories(theory for larger masses) and that sir Albert Einstein was looking for.
However if we gain nothing then it will be a sheer waste, the capital behind which could have been funded for other essential projects of public welfare.
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