What does the Large Hadron Collider do?

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Hey friends!

Most days I wake up and I’m able to tie my shoes without having to look up the manual so I have that going.

Concerning the Collider, imagine I know zero scientific terms and you don’t say stuff like “protons” or “particles”. Most P words are most likely banned.

I’m happy with the broadest, vaguest definition because the nitty gritty details are like Greek to me.

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We take really strong magnets and fling particles of what we know exists against other particles.. just like if you took two hot wheels cars and smashed them.

Instead of looking for tires or bits of paint or tiny parts, we look for new even smaller particles than we started with.

Amazingly even though we’re now adults we still like to smash things together to see what happens. It’s just this time we smash things at near the speed of light.

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