[Profpat]

Hi LugasLuna;

Welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy this site as much as I have.

You are right about the LHC, I guess some of the things physicist hope to explore per Wikipedia are:

Physicists hope to use the collider to test various grand unified theories and enhance their ability to answer the following questions:

• Is the popular Higgs mechanism for generating elementary particle masses in the Standard Model realised in nature? If so, how many Higgs bosons are there, and what are their masses?[11]
• Will the more precise measurements of the masses of the quarks continue to be mutually consistent within the Standard Model?
• Do particles have supersymmetric ("SUSY") partners?[2]
• Why are there apparent violations of the symmetry between matter and antimatter?[2] See also CP-violation.
• Are there extra dimensions indicated by theoretical gravitons, as predicted by various models inspired by string theory, and can we "see" them?
• What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy?[2]
• Why is gravity so many orders of magnitude weaker than the other three fundamental forces?

Let us hope they are sucessful.

Best,

Pat