#Hadron Collider

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Trapped like a pine marten in a hadron collider.

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[idontknowknit]

Large Hadron Collider Achieves Groundbreaking Measurement in Particle Physics

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[we-are-siege-engineer]

Bobby Broccoli has great in-depth work on engineering and scientific history. This video in specific is ~ 2hr 30 min, but it exists in 3 parts if you need that divided over time, rather than as say a long-form podcast documentary to listen to while working. Though the editing and graphics on this are fantastic for organizing information. Give it a view! TLDR: Remember every single group project you did in school or even every teamwork thing from ttrpg folks you hadn't worked with before, now multiply that. Every engineering effort is the same as a group project and there is no true solo work.

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Hey look, the particles are waving!

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It’s alive

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Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94

Interesting to consider.. he died on April 8, 2024--the same day as the big eclipse. And the same day the Hadron Collider fired up again.

CERN paid tribute to Peter Higgs ...

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hadron collider | blood orange ft. nelly furtado

(https://youtu.be/T6AbIEa431I?si=FWC3vr7rDbPblpIe)

[notsosmartedmund]

The Large Hadron Collider

On our planet there are more than 30 000 Hadron Colliders , but i wanted to talk about specific one , The Large Hadron Collider. Large Hadron Collider(LHC) - is an underground 27 km (16.7 mi) long tunnel structure between French and Swiss borders. This structure is made of two vacuum pipes and it has a circular form to accelerate protons to a speed as close as the speed of light. It also contains magnets to hold its stream so the protons would not crash into each other. For magnets to work , they have to be powered by superconductive wires that are 25 000 km long(155 000 mi) so there would be efficient electricity conduction and the magnets have to be cooled to -271.3 °С (-456.3 °F) to have the temperature lower than in space. The magnets are cooled of by 120 tons of liquid helium , liquid helium is a refrigerant in LHC just like refrigerant in our refrigerator(refrigerant - a liquid that lowers the temperature) But why do we need to accelerate protons in the first place? In order to discover new particles , we have to collide protons with each other. To collide protons they have to be accelerated in opposite direction. When they collide particles even smaller than protons fly away from the collision (Similarly with a brick , if one lies on the floor and you throw another one on top of it , little pieces will fly away). It is really hard to make protons collide because they are 10 km away from each other and they have to be collided in the middle. That is how on July 4th , 2012 Higgs boson was discovered. That is how we actually know that molecules are made of atoms , atoms are made of electrons , protons and neutrons and protons are made of quarks.

Higgs boson - is a really important particle in our universe , because it gives mass to other particles. If there was no Higgs boson , the particles would have no mass and they would have just flown away. Another interesting concept or area of research with Hadron Collider is antimatter. Antimatter - is the opposite of matter , meaning that for each particle there is an antiparticle. Antiparticles - is a particles which has the same mass and properties with particles but has the opposite charge , meaning that you can create a structure opposite of atom , where protons(positively charged) are antiprotons(negatively charged) , and electrons(negatively charged) are positrons(positively charged). By creating anti atom of hydrogen and colliding it with a regular hydrogen atom it will create an explosion , and that is how the hydrogen bomb actually works.

There is also a theory that if two protons collide so strongly , they can create a black hole. But the black hole would be too small to actually cause the whole destruction of our planet , so it still remains as a theory.

LHC is a really interesting structure , a really original source of information about particles. Hope i intrigued you on checking the video i watched , and the article i read , and maybe reading something more about LHC!

How does LHC work? CERN about their Hadron Collider

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[shelleysackier]

Some People Live in the Matrix. I Live in a Hadron Collider.

It has been a crummy month. I have had more balls thrown at my head, more rugs pulled from beneath me, and more Charlie Brown and Lucy football moments in this short space of time than an Amazon warehouse has isles. One wretched thing after another has befallen where I find myself looking up into the ether and wondering if it would be easier to find the nearest cliff to leap off, or if I should…

[dozydawn]

Quantum physicist Dr. Vera Spillner chats with chess master Arianne Caoili — on the danger that the Large Hadron Collider might generate miniature black holes, 2009.

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1984 😞

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