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I saw an article a couple of weeks ago, possibly here, titled something like 'please don't build another large hadron collider'. It made me wonder if we could
by jcims 4y ago
I saw an article a couple of weeks ago, possibly here, titled something like 'please don't build another large hadron collider'. It made me wonder if we could build a trap of sorts (like a large magnetic funnel, almost certainly in space) to direct exogenous (?) energetic particles to a target rather than accelerating them ourselves. Clearly nature can put more mustard on them than we can.
My guess is the challenge would be the relatively low counts, but maybe with a large enough trap that wouldn't be a problem.
- elorant 4y agoWe've spotted such particles. Like this one for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle But how would we harness them? They travel almost to the speed of light and we have no indication where they will pop. And even if we knew the general direction, we're talking about something infinitesimal small. You'd need to have some really big obstacle that could be mobile. LHC's magnets are like five storey buildings.
- jcims 4y agoThat’s the one that came to mind. No idea, sounds like a problem for engineering. :)