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just one more accelerator bro. just one slightly larger accelerator than the one we just got online. we can revolutinize physics with just one more accelerator

• ceejayoz 3y ago
  The article is about a much smaller accelerator. > A muon collider could be much smaller and cheaper than a functionally equivalent proton collider, advocates say. It could fit on the 2750-hectare campus of the United States’s dedicated particle physics lab, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), enabling the U.S. to reclaim the lead in the continuing competition for the highest energy collider. Most important, younger physicists say, it might be built sooner than a more conventional competitor, perhaps in as few as 25 years. “If you want you can add 10 years to that, that’s still a lot better than when I’m dead,” Holmes says.
  • rrix2 3y ago
    :) When I made the joke I was thinking about energy levels and theoretical physicists'/string theorists insistence that we're just a bit more energy away from evidence of the grand unified theory
    • Dylan16807 3y ago
      I'm pretty sure they don't insist on that. Also we haven't built a collider that's even close to the collision energies of the SSC, which was cancelled mid-construction over 30 years ago. We're still playing catch-up.