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How much of their research occurs naturally versus through man-made experimentation? Which is to say, do their collisions they cause occur without any man-made

• magicalhippo 5y ago
  From what I've gathered, cosmic rays hitting[1] the atmosphere produce the same or similar collisions that the LHC and similar accelerators do. These collisions can be detected, and properties measured[2]. The main difference is that with accelerators like the LHC you control exactly where and when collisions happen, making precise measurements of a vast number of events possible. If I did my math right the Higgs required over 10^15 collisions before detection was claimed. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_shower_%28physics%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_shower_%28physics%29 [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray#Detection_methods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray#Detection_methods