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more than 7,000 scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider
Originally posted by chiron613
All the LHC is going to do - at best - is take our understanding of the Universe back to some fraction of a second after the big bang. I think they're saying a trillionth of a second, but whatever. The Higgs boson isn't the very first particle ever. It's just the one that theory predicts for this particular time. Go back a bit more, and you'll find other particles.
Originally posted by Taikonaut
Perhaps the scientists have been looking at the Higgs-Boson problem so closely that they can't see the forest for the trees so to speak?
I'm wondering if they're doing the large-scale equivalent of running a microwave oven with nothing in it and waiting for the particles to collide in such a way as to miraculously produce a cooked dinner, when they need to put the dinner in the microwave in the first place and then bombard it
anyone got any reciepes for super-heavy elements?
Originally posted by buddhasystem
What the heck are you talking about?
Originally posted by Taikonaut
Originally posted by buddhasystem
What the heck are you talking about?
I sometimes ask myself the same question