Fr no solid theoretical basis, just trust me bro
Saturn is one step ahead of us
Perfect! A bunch of raw materials are already there! We just need to refine them and assemble them into a particle collider.
They’ll be gone in another 15 million to 400 million years.
The two first are the same?
Ops, I meant the Proton Syncrotron.
Decades of colliding hardons and what do we have to show for it
Just the Higgs boson, which is exactly what the LHC was originally built for. But other than the intended results, it’s been basically useless!
But other than the intended results, it’s been basically useless!
Tbf, there are quite a few big experiments that have been done and will be done with the LHC, not just the Higgs boson search.
it was about the hardons we collided along the way
The hardons haven’t been colliding fast enough. Sorry boys, I don’t make the rules
Confirmation of the principles they built the thing to demonstrate.
Every time so far.
This isn’t far off from some dipshit saying the place program was a waste of resources.
I think they were making a hardon joke more than questioning scientific research
I need to remind myself people here aren’t as dumb (or dumber depending on how much you like the hardon joke) as you average internet user and maybe lower my defense a couple notches.
It’ll still be called the Future Circular Collider when it’s shut down after forty years of service. You gotta commit to a scale in the proposal, like the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.
Chucky McParticleface
Lead engineer, Dr. Slab Bulkhead.
Orbital collider when?
Maybe that’s the real Kardashev scale…
Just one more collider bro I swear just this one and we’ll fix the standard model bro just one more I swear
The last time? aaaahahahaa… no. There are several phenomenon that require energy levels that only stellar objects can throw off. They’ll be asking for bigger colliders even when they’re dedicated space stations firing what would be equivalent to weapons of mass destruction at each other.
Unless scientists can figure everything out just by observing space, there will always be a demand for a bigger collider. Since scientists like to control variables and don’t like waiting for random events that they then almost have to reverse-engineer to explain (without most all of the sensitive detectors built in to these colliders), there will always be a demand.
I said 10y, but yes it will need a lot more colliders.
“We just want to smash two little planets together at 99% speed of light!”
I’m inclined to let them. I wanna see that,
Larger Hadron Collider
Why does a larger loop mean better results?
More size = more speed and more particles colliding = more bang = more data = for example possibility for dark matter and/or heavier particles to be found.
Is we even sure Geneva hasn’t already been overrun by the Combine?
No, that would be Bulgaria
What’s the new one for?
More particles. MOOOOOREEEE!
AI particles & AI physics 🤡
For smashing things
When I see massive and highly technical projects like this I wonder where they find enough skilled labor to build it. Just look at the immense complexity of this and they have to build miles and miles of it underground. I’m imagining that all of the construction workers have PhDs in physics or some shit. Or am I overestimating the demands here?
Overestimating it a little, the construction workers just need to be good. But there are indeed literally thousands of PhDs working on it for decades, from all over the world.
