I recently saw a Cleo Abrams video about particle accelerators and the lead scientist said that they use particle accelerators to create the building blocks for future innovations.
I’m sure advancements have been made only because particle accelerators exist but I don’t know any. Can someone highlight a direct influence particle accelerators have on our daily lives?
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There is a video “Physics experiments that changed the world” on the Royal Institution’s YouTube channel. It discusses the background leading up to each experiment and then presents examples of technologies that came out of the knowledge learned due to the experiment. If you look at the timestamps in the description, you’ll see that the speaker (who is herself a particle physicist) gets to particle accelerators at around 45 minutes. Here is a link to the talk, which is quite nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXg3edeUrtc
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