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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It smashes tiny stuff together to see it break into smaller pieces and occasionally very briefly recombine into some entirely different tiny stuff. All this to see and learn and check theories of what the reality is made of.

What stuff comes out different depends on how hard you smashed the tiny stuff in the first place. And the LHC just got upgraded to be able to smash tiny stuff even harder, harder than ever before.

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