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Scientists Plan To Recreate Big Bang To Uncover Universial Mysteries

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Galapagos Islands, Ecuador (AFP) Jun 22, 2006
International scientists will recreate the immediate aftermath of the "Big Bang" in a bid to uncover the mysteries of the universe, a world physics summit announced Thursday. The laboratory experiment will take place in Europe next year with the collaboration of US, Japanese and Russian scientists to increase scientific knowledge of dark energy and matter, said summit organizer Carlos Montufar, of Ecuador's San Francisco University.

"The idea is to generate a clash between particles similar to what happened a thousandth of a second after the Big Bang and see what it could tell us about the standard model of matter," Montufar told AFP.

So far, the model only offers an understanding of four percent of the universe's dark energy and matter, he said. The universe is famously believed to have been born in a Big Bang around 12-14 billion years ago and has been expanding ever since, driven by a mysterious force known as dark energy.

US, Japanese, European and Latin American scientists have been meeting at the Galapagos island of San Cristobal since Wednesday for the summit, which is being attended by Nobel physics prize laureates Frank Wilczeck and Leon Lederman of the United States.

Source: Agence France-Presse

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