The objective of this
project was to help me learn more about particle physics and the universe and
ways that the theories related to each of them can be fused.
Obviously, I wasn’t able
to do a very exciting practical part, because it’s very difficult to get in
contact with organisations that would have been able to help me with that part
of my project. Thus why I chose to talk
about the ALBA synchrotron in the practical part of my work.
From this project, I have
learned that the “small world” and the “big world” are completely different and
it will be an odyssey to try to find a theory that can explain both of them at
the same time. It will be even more difficult to prove the theory to be true.
Nowadays, the theory that
has more chances of becoming accepted is string theory. It is still being
developed and has not yet been proved to be true, and even though we have very
good tools that can help with proving some parts of it, I think it’ll be very
difficult to prove the existence of “extra dimensions”.
Particle accelerators
could be one of the tools used to prove these kinds of theories. CERN’s LHC
could maybe be of help, but ALBA would definitely not. This shows how not every
particle accelerator is dedicated to “discovering how the universe was created”
like some people believe. This belief often brings people to stay away from
particle accelerators like ALBA, making them remain mostly unknown to
researchers who could be able to use them in their projects.
