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> the particle physicists are having a blast discovering properties I'm glad to learn that I was mistaken! As a layman myself, this is really all I want from
by sevensor 9y ago
> the particle physicists are having a blast discovering properties
I'm glad to learn that I was mistaken! As a layman myself, this is really all I want from the LHC: for it to continue to be a useful piece of equipment for scientific experments. From the article, it sounded like the attitude was, "we didn't find anything sexy, so we're done here," which would be a huge waste.
- iamatworknow 9y agoFor what it's worth, there are accelerators, colliders, and synchrotrons here in the US that were dwarfed by the LHC (and practically unheard of in popular culture) that are in use today. They're still running experiments on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab in New York, for example, even though it started operation 8 years before the LHC and runs at a fraction of the energy.
- minitoar 9y agoI always get excited when driving or flying over SLAC! Although I understand that the facility is now half laser interferometry.