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Discover the Future of Physics on a School Trip to Cern

There is so much potential for a school trip to Cern, home to the most cutting edge physics laboratory in the world. Not only has the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) allowed the theory of quantum physics to gain momentum, but the scope for future research is vast. In fact, ideas for a £20bn accelerator named the Future Circular Collider (FCC) are fast becoming a reality.
Pupils on a school trip to Cern will have the opportunity to learn all about the future plans for this fascinating project.

The Future of Cern

It’s hard to imagine an accelerator that is four times longer and ten times more powerful than the LHC, but that’s exactly what is being proposed. The idea behind its size is that it will become possible to unearth new subatomic particles within the next 30 years.

While there are sceptics, the Director-General of Cern is very excited about the proposal, what it could teach us and how it could advance technologies that have a positive impact on society.

The Plans

Currently the idea is in its infancy, but it has been submitted to an international panel of particle physicists in conceptual design format.Other submissions will also be received but this one has gained significant interest. The plan is to build an accelerator that is 100km in diameter and, while the proposal is ambitious, it is very exciting.

Engineers are already building prototypes and testing components that may be incorporated into the design so that the accelerator can work at higher energies. A new tunnel under Cern would have to be built, and then a ring would be installed with the purpose of colliding electrons with their positively charged counterparts, called positrons.

Once this becomes established, protons would be collided with electrons in stage 2, with the final stage involving colliding protons together with a force that equates to ten times higher than that produced in the LHC.

The Results

The hope is that collisions at this high energy level will help scientists discover a whole new set of particles that can tell us more and more about how our universe ticks. (The subatomic particles we are aware of currently only play a relatively small role in the natural forces that govern the universe around us.)

While the Standard Model of Subatomic Physics (something you should talk about with your students before your school trip to Cern) serves its purpose (and was a huge achievement for science), astronomers believe that there is more to the universe, much of which can’t be explained by the Standard Model.

Scientists yearn to discover the theory of everything: the deeper processes that tie all of the natural forces together and unite the general theory of relativity and quantum physics. The hope is that the new FCC can help do just that.

Booking a school trip to Cern is best done through a specialist operator. While you plan the educational side of the experience, the booking company will take care of the logistics, the itinerary, the accommodation and the travel.

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John Gardiner is the Managing Director of The School Travel Company, a tour operator specialising in educational trips in destinations all over the world. Whether you’d like to organise a school trip to Cern, exciting tours around North America or day trips in the UK, this company will work with you to design bespoke outings to suit the needs of your students.

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The Advantages of Using Free Online Courses

Online learning has grown in popularity in recent years as the quality of the free online courses has grown. Online learning can take whatever form you need it for. It can give a student the chance to complete work from home, fill in missing information, follow an area of interest, or improve your education for your future career. Internet learning can have a wide range of forms, videos, audio, written material, online material and more. This has truly become one of the best ways to achieve quality distance learning.
Three types of learning

There are three types of opportunities for online learning so whether you need ideas for science projects for class 9 or something more specific it is there. The first type is using the internet for research or using platforms for the purpose of self-study. The second is enrolling with a formal school that provides online courses. Lastly, there are corporate training opportunities provided by various companies.

Think about your future

Online learning is a chance to better plan for your future. Look at what the industries are looking for and make sure you have no gaps in your knowledge. It keeps you competitive and helps you stand out from other applicants. With new technologies and developments, there is always something new to learn and stay on top of.

Get a better understanding

Online learning gives you a chance to better understand certain areas. If you are studying at school and have not fully understood something, was absent for something, or just feel that the lessons were lacking in detail, you can get a better understanding online.

Convenience

Free online courses offer you more convenience in the kind of environment, format and time of learning. You can do it when you learn best from the comfort of home, or you can do some from your device when you are at the park. Whatever you want!

More freedom in how you prefer to learn

Schools tend to follow the same or very similar formats in how lessons and lectures are formatted. The teacher talks and imparts information and students have to listen, do some work and essentially memorise it. If you miss the lesson, you then have missing information that makes it hard to get any assignments done. If you prefer to learn by doing something, or prefer to read something, or you need visual prompts, you have a lot more freedom to choose methods that best suit your style of learning. This means you are more likely to remember it!

Learn at a pace that best suits you

You can also learn the information you need for science projects for class 9 at the pace that suits you. If you need to spend more time in one area or module you can. If you did not understand something right away you can go back and take another look. Not everyone learns at the same pace and so online learning gives you a chance to set it to the pace you prefer, not what a teacher sets or other students set!

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