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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The problem with an analogy is that there is something fundamental going on that is never observed in “real life”.
If I could throw two pillows together very, very fast and what was produced wasn’t feathers but a complete kitchen utensil set and matching cutlery then you would be very surprised. You would say how could feathers turn into metal? Or ceramics?
But this is what happens in the scales of the very small that the LHC deals with. It collides very fundamental building blocks of nature, at close to the fastest speed nature allows, and new things come out. *These new things are not smaller components of the things we are colliding.*
We then have cameras, as large as cathedrals, that surround the places where these collisions occur, and try and piece together the after state. (We know the before state because we precisely know what we are colliding together and how fast they are going.)
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