                                                                           JAGS's Own Mini-Big Bang




Congratulations to Esme Mahoney Phillips, Ellie Evans and Tintin Stutter for their excellent Science projects, which were celebrated in edible style at Mr Putley’s Science Week assembly on Wednesday. There is still a long wait for answers to the big mysteries of the universe, such as why some particles have mass when others don't, what is "dark matter", and are there more than three dimensions to the universe? True to the kind of ambition we expect from JAGS teachers, Mr Putley attempted to re-create a sort of mini-Big Bang, in his demonstration that E=mc².

If we didn’t appreciate it before, we are now knowledgeable about the Cern experiment, and at least how it got its name as the Council European for Research Nuclear, and about the Large Hadron Collider in its 27k long tunnel. The LHC fires beams of protons in opposite direction around the two tubes. They intersect at four points, which is where the energy-laden protons will smash together, replicating the conditions that existed less than a nanosecond after the Big Bang.

Mr Putley described it as the biggest collision between protons and anti-protons you can imagine. When they meet the concentration of energy is more than you get anywhere; when you get that kind of concentration, anything can happen.

If that is a little hard to digest, a scratch group of rappers, pictured here, made it all much easier.

JAGS's Own Mini-Big Bang

Congratulations to Esme Mahoney Phillips, Ellie Evans and Tintin Stutter for their excellent Science projects, which were celebrated in edible style at Mr Putley’s Science Week assembly on Wednesday. There is still a long wait for answers to the big mysteries of the universe, such as why some particles have mass when others don't, what is "dark matter", and are there more than three dimensions to the universe? True to the kind of ambition we expect from JAGS teachers, Mr Putley attempted to re-create a sort of mini-Big Bang, in his demonstration that E=mc². If we didn’t appreciate it before, we are now knowledgeable about the Cern experiment, and at least how it got its name as the Council European for Research Nuclear, and about the Large Hadron Collider in its 27k long tunnel. The LHC fires beams of protons in opposite direction around the two tubes. They intersect at four points, which is where the energy-laden protons will smash together, replicating the conditions that existed less than a nanosecond after the Big Bang. Mr Putley described it as the biggest collision between protons and anti-protons you can imagine. When they meet the concentration of energy is more than you get anywhere; when you get that kind of concentration, anything can happen. If that is a little hard to digest, a scratch group of rappers, pictured here, made it all much easier.