I never got to study psychics or any basics of science even, so I’m incredibly confused yet curious about what the purpose of CERN is and what they have been up to since its development
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Wanna know what something is made of? Crack it open.
CERN aims to find out what the universe itself is made out of. To do that, they need to crack open the building blocks that make up the very foundation of the universe. Things that refuse to crack even under the most violent events imaginable.
Wanna crack open a rock, but you can’t do it with your fists? Use a hammer and chisel. Focus your effort into one tiny place, and you can do some incredible things.
CERN operates the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC. It’s an enormous machine (the largest single machine built by humans) that is designed to pump an enormous amount of energy into one very small place. On the scale of the universe, the total energy used by the LHC is pitiful; but due to our cleverness in its design, we can focus that energy into such a tiny, precise spot that nearly everything else in the universe pales in comparison. Even the centers of supernovae can’t hold a candle to what goes on there. This allows CERN to be able to crack the toughest nuts of the universe, and find out what they are made of.
The highest temperature event known to have ever existed in the universe short of the Big Bang itself happened here in a lab on Earth. How does that make you feel?
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