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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Broadest definition:

You know how we discovered fire? Just started banging rocks and boom! Fire!

Well, we know atoms exist. We now know even smaller stuff exists. So we bang those stuff together to see what happens. And seeing what happens can help us understand how it all works.

It is large, because you need to speed these things up(really really fast) because naturally they don’t like colliding with each other.

It is hadron, because they’re called hadrons.

It’s a collider, because it’s colliding.

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