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Not to downplay the LHC, but scientists and physicists have been creating the material ("making the next piece") for fundamental new physics for a while now. Th

Not to downplay the LHC, but scientists and physicists have been creating the material ("making the next piece") for fundamental new physics for a while now. The quantum hall effect, Bose-Einstein condensates, nuclear explosions, etc... LHC certainly is a big step in particle physics, but I'd be hesitant to label it a paradigm shift. Nature is nature; it's there and waiting to be figured out... but sometimes it doesn't naturally create what it's capable of creating.

nollidge 17y ago
To be pedantic regarding your last sentence, these sorts of collisions do happen in nature. It's just that they're pretty much impossible to observe given that we have to look really, really close and they're so spread out.
FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Think of telescopes. You can advance the theory of astronomy all you want, but unless you build a bigger mirror to better see the stuff actually going on up in the skies, you won't get very far.