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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Everything is made up of really tiny pieces of stuff. I mean really tiny. Like mind-boggling tiny. These tiny pieces of stuff do different things.

The tiny pieces don’t like being alone and will clump together with other tiny pieces really really really fast.

The best way to see what the tiny pieces do is to smash slightly larger pieces together to break them into tiny pieces.

In order to see the tiny pieces you have to have a bunch of tools to measure what the tiny pieces do in a place that you can also smash together the slightly larger pieces.

The LHC is the best machine in the world at smashing the slightly larger pieces together to make tiny pieces in a place that they also have tools to see what the tiny pieces do.

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