How Do They Make Particles Hit Each Other?

On the border between France and Switzerland is the biggest science experiment ever built. It’s a tunnel, over 100 meters underground and 27 kilometers long. Inside that tunnel, scientists put a long blue tube… and inside that tube, they put two pipes that they keep colder and emptier than outer space… and down those pipes, they fire particles smaller than atoms…
in opposite directions, pushing them faster and faster until, when they’re almost the speed of light, they finally smash together!
But my question was… how do they get them to actually hit each other?? Here's the answer.
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#science #tech #stem #animation #cern #physics

[@user-ox7dx8be9o]

I love how we as humans just resort to banging things together really fast to discover more things

[@spacekid9680]

Unga bunga! Ooga booga!

[@Im_ablackhole]

Baby

[@icantswim8657]

I mean if it works 🤷‍♀️

[@bensonqiu4642]

i meannnnn that how we made fire😂

[@christopherwilliams9518]

Hey it worked to make fire we are going to keep doing it

[@Killer_smiles]

Just don't stand under a window working near chemicals during a rainstorm during this

[@alien9279]

Ayo flash reference

[@J1ggu]

You mean in front of a window?

[@loneeagle991]

​@@J1gguunder a window, it's a reference to The Flash TV show

[@rockwellwebb8586]

Nah i think i will i want powers man

[@rizma1899]

HOLD ON A SEC- *starts playing pokerface by Lady Gaga*

[@janinepettit2019]

My dad was the project manager who installed the magnets in that ring. There’s a big photo in his office of him standing in the tunnel. We lived in Chicago at the time and my dad went to work in Switzerland for five months. There was no FaceTime or emails in 1972. I still have a pile of letters he wrote. He left in August and came home two days before Christmas.

[@sedriaroun7487]

That sounds super cool.. btw can you explain what exactly is the purpose of this? I don't quite understand TT

[@DeletedDevilDeletedAngel]

@@sedriaroun7487science

[@MikeyIsGo]

@@sedriaroun7487 It's particle physics. Basically taking a subatomic particle and breaking it up into it's components to study those components.

[@sherparoyale]

Was your dad at U Chicago?

[@dmedilicious8488]

And you couldn't tell us its the CERN super collider

[@I4IMPAZZITI]

"And you did this for what?" "Why not?" "Why though?" "Why not?" "But why though?"

[@americanmade4791]

"It seemed like a good idea at the time." Be aware that such answer impresses scientists, not judges.

[@I4IMPAZZITI]

@@americanmade4791 that's interesting, anyways😂

[@pastrycookie3953]

I fr don't get this 💀🙏🏻

[@I4IMPAZZITI]

@@pastrycookie3953 I guess they though it was fun💀

[@musicandmoviefan9217]

we don't have enough ways to waste money....after all why spend it feeding the hungry or housing the homeless when you can make particles bump into each other in mulit-billion dollar tubes

[@TheBrinePanda]

Step 2: Dark Matter Explosion Step 3: Become The Flash

[@ColeOutcast]

Glad I wasn't the only one who immediately thought "Star Labs Particle Accelerato?!"

[@Halfadonut]

​@@ColeOutcastyeah exactly, it's just a particle exelarator

[@leeleeru]

Bro this is what I immediately thought!

[@ThatGuyOxygen]

or any other super villain

[@TheBrinePanda]

@@ThatGuyOxygen facts 💀

[@ankitsaha1155]

last time someone did that, we got the flash

[@ST-wl4dh]

Different timeline buddy,thawne took away barrys power in this one so now he became an actor

[@xensation6817]

​@@ST-wl4dh At least we have a direct window into the separate timeline so we know what actually happened

[@haroldjohnson1522]

Why

[@Dyekoe]

​@@taplegendYes

[@I_am_piano_man]

My name is Barry Allen and I’m the fastest man alive

[@AnjanaManaswithaChada]

That large tunnel can be also called PARTICLE ACCELERATOR

[@lcethehuskyShorts]

from da flash (humor ik its not)

[@YawnWoofDog]

Particle accelerator inator!

[@Flappy-_-]

I think this is indeed called a particle accelerator

[@Butane-lj6tr]

I have a question: where do they buy the particles?

[@lcethehuskyShorts]

@@Butane-lj6tr they exist

[@highonair3695]

I spent 7 months on a studentship there recently. There is a saying about the precision on those collisions - it is as if you were throwing two needles at each other across Atlantic and trying to hit achieve a head on collision. And there are so many small funfacts about those accelerators which are just mindblowing!

[@Revan1189]

Switzerland bout’ to create The Fastest Man Alive. 🏃💨⚡️

[@powfull]

real

[@mathewsphiri5629]

ze flaj😂

[@steamkareem4760]

I really think they are building a real life Particle Accelerator 😂

[@zefic6795]

A-train baby

[@a_leseman_0242]

Exactly what I thought😂

[@ArtypNk]

That face when you expect 60 of them to hit but 60 million hit out of sheer luck, and there is now a black hole sucking earth inside of it.

[@maxnaz47]

This was a genuine fear ill informed people had when the LHC was commissioned. So much so that someone actually took their own life...

[@dogeomnomnom]

@@maxnaz47WAIT WHAT where can I learn more 😭

[@Rhakin78]

How do you think we get to the upside down?

[@wanheterotroph8918]

People who believe that also believe "the late, great Hannibal Lecter" is a real person from a documentary they once watched.

[@termodog7951]

@@Rhakin78we’re already in the upside down…lol

[@nishant3528]

It’s called the Large Hadron Collider if anyone wants to research further.

[@promisedjubileedaniels]

Thank you so much!

[@L.W.123]

​@promisedjubileedaniels yeah, I suggest you did deep. Watch the "symmetry" video also watch the opening of the gotthard tunnel. They are doing something sinister.

[@JH-yx1eg]

So glad you spelt that correctly haha.

[@mikeogden5256]

Evil 😈?

[@mikeogden5256]

I thought it was weird that they didn’t mention it by name

[@stefanmetzeler]

I spent a lot of time at CERN helping one of my friends from EPFL get his PhD. Lots of fun hunting down cables in those tunnels... We later worked together in the IBM consulting group. I also organized an IT Oberon day at CERN with another friend, a Russian theoretical physicist and we managed to get Prof. Wirth from ETHZ to join us - it was about his programming language, after all, Oberon-2. Prof. Wirth is a winner of the Turing Award, the "Nobel" of IT, so getting him as conference keynote speaker was pretty big.

[@johnroekoek12345]

That's so cool! Well done

[@Razvann220]

no one cares

[@ElizabethAftonAndTheIceCream]

i didn't understand a thing :3

[@ElizabethAftonAndTheIceCream]

@@Razvann220 well apparently 54 people did and if you don't care just ddon't reply

[@CliveEuler7]

​@@Razvann220coz you can't get in touch with a prof yourself😂

[@akshaysunil2015]

For people that don’t know: they are trying to create antimatter. It is a very powerful and interesting substance as it cannot be put into contact with any real matter as it will explode. This makes harnessing it very difficult. Hope that helped

[@YoKKJoni]

antimatter isnt real.

[@Flash16xx]

I was just about to ask. Thanks!

[@petercrenfield]

you know dan brown writes fiction novels right ?

[@loneshadow0844]

Wouldn't anti-matter just anti-everything?

[@sorrowandsufferin924]

And as information for you: that's one of the things CERN is doing. They're also capable of creating miniature black holes that exist for the fraction of a second.

[@Soguwe]

They have one at DESY in Hamburg too. Every time Nacht des Wissens (Night of Knowledge, a night event every few years where hundreds of scientific facilities open up to the public to make science graspable) comes around, they let you into the tunnels and explain what they do Our parents always made it a point to go to DESY every time, that's not a chance you have often

[@ThangaThalapathy75]

Don't you all understand it's fake af !? Jesus is the King 👑 and he is coming soon ♥️

[@Soguwe]

@@ThangaThalapathy75 how much can a carpenter from 2000 years ago know about particle physics?

[@phoenixomega806]

ohhh wait that sounds awesome

[@user-bo6og7qk9f]

​@@ThangaThalapathy75 All religions are based off faith, even science was originally but all religions ring true that something made everything start. If there is a god and there probably is, it doesn't mean that it just Christ.also Don't swear it's rude.

[@richlo8887]

​@@ThangaThalapathy75 Keep believing is fairy tales! 🤣

[@Frenatur]

"My name is Barry Allen, and I'm the fastest man alive"

[@idehenebenezer]

TO EVERYONE IN THIS CHAT: *THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD IS DRAWING NIGH.* REPENT TODAY AND GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS TO ESCAPE ETERNAL DAMNATION!,

[@maryamkhan236]

OMG THAT'S WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO SAY

[@FilzahKhan]

isnt Wally the fastest tho... like out of all 4 flashes

[@1gooberr]

@@idehenebenezershut up

[@3GenEditz]

@@FilzahKhanin the comics yea, but everywhere else Barry is the fastest

[@damunzy]

Weird she never said the name of the site: CERN, European Council for Nuclear Research (in French Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire).

[@muktoonsepiphany9944]

The place is called CERN for those who want to dig a little more

[@TEETIMEE]

If you dig too much you might be a little freaked out.

[@Shnierpiffle]

It's like totally freaking cool like omg! 60!! Like out of 60 billion I was like wooah omg! I'm totally wet for cern rn!!

[@FafliXx]

They also invented time travel and used it to start WW3 in Japan for some reason

[@loreman7267]

Bizarrely enough, Kern (with a K) is Dutch for Nucleus.

[@manlikemb6226]

@@FafliXxSource

[@garry_quack]

I like the idea being "We found really small things, what do we do?" "Chuck them at each other."

[@idehenebenezer]

TO EVERYONE IN THIS CHAT: *THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD IS DRAWING NIGH.* REPENT TODAY AND GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS TO ESCAPE ETERNAL DAMNATION!,

[@johnt.inscrutable1545]

It’s exactly the kind of thing we did as 12 year olds. We’d try to shoot BBs at each other, but we’d aim to try and make the hit in the middle. We hoped for sparks, I think. Or maybe we hoped someone would get an eye put out. We were 12 and stupid. Now I’m more than half a century older and I still love the idea of throwing things at themselves or other things.

[@badmaniak]

No. There are other reasons.

[@asharg7391]

Flash!

[@parcat5729]

The experiment was banging the particles together? What do they learn from that?

[@aidreinhorn1534]

Fun fact: sticking your head inside a particle accelerator has a 100% survival rate.

[@NinjaFlout]

Fun fact about fun fact: It's because only 1 out of 1 person survived it which is hilarious

[@sethmyers5666]

Interesting...

[@aidreinhorn1534]

@@NinjaFlout thats what makes it funny.

[@Rabiazia11]

Fun fact if you stand under a window and it gets hit by lightning while this machine explodes , you become the fastest man alive

[@kaushtirou]

​@@Rabiazia11Dont forget the fingerprinting chemicals 😂😂⚡⚡

[@Theactualgamer1]

Back in highschool my school would go there with a little group of students who were interested as an excursion every year. I still regret not signing up for it.

[@coutamaxplayer538]

And that's a particle accelerator for ya.

[@beasthuntermohit567]

@thailandertravel Sorry to break it to you but nothing is science is done for a profit. They just do things because they can.

[@SwiftShadow887]

And a collider too

[@Dawe0110]

@thailandertravelif you only knew…

[@Suekru3]

@thailandertravelshowing your ignorance here aren’t you

[@matasi9667]

So they coppied the flash 😅

[@SubUmbraFloreo-]

My grandfather worked on this in throughout the 70's to the 90's, he's done numerous presentations at many universities in Europe and North America, he's also published two books, one about hadron spectroscopy and glueballs, hybrids and exotic hadrons . He received his Ph.D. at Berkeley, his name is Suh-Urk Chung, he's really a neat guy, Cleo.

[@sandyjr5225]

Could I know your grandpa's name, if you don't mind..?

[@SubUmbraFloreo-]

​@@sandyjr5225 Suh-Urk Chung

[@MaxLoup1]

​@@sandyjr5225 he says the name in the comment tho

[@AzureBlade07]

@@sandyjr5225 nah u trolling?

[@CaereDotCom]

@@sandyjr5225bro did not read the comment 😭

[@PewPewDave]

Their proton salesman is really killing it.

[@valence3301]

HAHAHAH

[@iDenzY]

it’s called CERN, it’s in Geneva (mainly) and it’s called a particle accelerator

[@StephenMunns]

Would've been cool to hear a bit more about why they're doing what they're doing! What are they expecting to discover?

[@bw3506]

Some say Satan and demons. The world certainly hasn't gotten better since they've been doing this so?? 😉

[@literalsarcasm1830]

The secrets of the universe

[@Tuononno_1231-ty4hs]

I dunno, probably how particles work

[@migue24]

Thank you! I was thinking the same exact thing!! Like why!??

[@StephenMunns]

That's perfect, thanks. Good to have that cleared up. ​@@Tuononno_1231-ty4hs

[@surfinduck4769]

I was just there on holiday and the way they track those collisions is even more mindblowing. They literally reconstruct the path of every single one of them.

[@zachos-un6py]

It gets even more impressive when you realize the work that goes into making just one of those detectors, the principles of how they track and deduce the properties of the particles sound simple enough (at least with a physics degree) but building the thing and having it work is so much trial and error, pain and suffering. Source: I'm in a group building a new detector for CERN and it's been a long process

[@alexmanojlovic768]

​@@zachos-un6py​You're a MASSIVE waste of taxpayers money, globally!! And you're proud of yourself??!!🤦‍♂️ Should we feed, clothe, house & educate the world? NO!! Let's build MULTIPLE particle accelerators & pay for the most Satanic opening celebrations & the mind numbing energy bills instead & watch particles collide instead of making healthcare free & shutting down the global Military Industrial Complex...🤦‍♂️

[@jonathonvoegtli4699]

How the hell are they getting just protons? That is actually the cooler thing to me then keeping 2 impressively large tubes as a race track for the protons.

[@timothy098-b4f]

As the proton source, they start with hydrogen gas (just a proton and electron), and strip off the electrons using magnetic interactions. That leaves hydrogen nuclei, which are just bare protons.

[@ArkanoidZero]

It's easier than it sounds, it's just a Hydrogen atom that's been oxidized to remove its valence electron, leaving you with a single proton by itself.

[@jonathonvoegtli4699]

@@ArkanoidZero okay and how do they do that to individual atoms? Or do they do it with a quantity it makes something actually able to be worked with. This whole process should be a video

[@scottread2979]

@@jonathonvoegtli4699did you not watch the short? They are dealing with billions of atoms not individuals.

[@o1497]

@@jonathonvoegtli4699 search up hydrogen ions and you will see the process :)

[@Thoughtomobile]

Name it lady! It is CERN. It stands for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (ENG=The European Organization for Nuclear Research).

[@Dontyoutrust]

The fact that she did not mentioned it's name as particle accelerator which is a widely know term

[@jacksondenice]

CERN

[@electroguy256]

LHC Large Hadron Collider

[@FR0STBYT33]

I swear it could have created a black hole that killed us all

[@JonathanSiby]

@@FR0STBYT33the black holes it has potential to form are so small they can’t suck up matter and fizzle out within picoseconds

[@FR0STBYT33]

@@JonathanSiby I swear they would still explode and destroy a huge area?

[@MbahMu9829]

The fact that somebody fund it without the possibility for immediate military application is just crazy.

[@elliotarundella7581]

??

[@brian_be_flyin]

You’re so naive - who do you think built it?

[@franzi1596]

​@@brian_be_flyin @MbahMu9829 this research center CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) was founded in 1954 by 12 european countries. It is currently funded by 23 european countries with a total of 1,27 billion Euros. Japan and the USA in example have observer status and several countries like Australia, China and Canada have cooperation agreements. Thanks to the finance, universities and research institutes from all over the world can use this place for experiments and gaining knowledge of our universe. CERN has the status of international organization and the general director is always from a different country. The current director i.e. is a woman from Italy. Good luck using this thing for military while basically the whole world is watching you. I don't know where you're from, but as a european I see this as a very american mindset.

[@herranton]

​@@brian_be_flyinThe governments of the UK, Germany, France, and Spain did the heavy lifting when it came to funding the LHC. A lot of people think the USA and Japan need to pay their fair share for the larger accelerator they want to build. Not sure why we would pay for it though. It's literally called _Center _*_European_*_ nuclear research._ Oh, wait, nevermind. The Europeans think we should pay for everything... Sorry guys. If we're going to pay for a accelerator, we're not going to build it under Switzerland.

[@Darkwoley]

@@herrantonbecause you use the results of those experiments.

[@stephiemarie6572]

Schools need to integrate science explained through animations like this FR 😭🤚

[@BrandonZickefoose2014]

YES!!!!!!!!!

[@Kittycat13-soho]

I’ve seen that tunnel. It’s at CERN in Switzerland.

[@shinysniper9537]

for anyone curious, this is called the Large Hadron Collider ^^

[@ianbarnes961]

Why didn't she say this??

[@finickyx]

​@@ianbarnes961 To avoid titilliating some dyslexic people from misreading "Hadron"

[@JCAtkeson3]

​@@finickyx Yeah the large hard-on collider is next door. They keep getting each other's mail.

[@Summersimmie]

The one Sheldon has been mentioning?! Wow! Didn't know it was true irl. Thanks for the info!

[@shinysniper9537]

@@Summersimmie He mentions a lot of things that are true irl. Same in BBT. They know what they're writing

[@nehalchhalotre9804]

My question is how do they “bring” particles into a tube which is as empty as space, a vacuum?

[@not_even_me5035]

they pass hydrogen gas through an electric field, which strips the electrons off, leaving just the protons to use in the collision

[@logicallion2196]

@@not_even_me5035 Nice! Thanks!

[@b-meaker99]

I also needed to know that answer, thank you

[@deathmeter7243]

@@not_even_me5035What about the neutrons?

[@not_even_me5035]

@@deathmeter7243 the VAST majority of hydrogen has no neutrons.

[@abhisheksathe123]

I always love how enthusiastically she explains all the stuff

[@Billy-cs4cc]

Wouldn't it be nice if she explained what the purpose is, duh

[@BenitoX92]

I like adderall too 😂

[@DB-rl6ql]

That single experiment includes almost all branches of Science and Technology

[@Phoenix.1000]

Thats a freaking partical accelerator. We about to get a damm flash

[@oni-linkle4880]

Large Hadron Collider.

[@lolofriend4701]

Dude that would be so awesome

[@Unreal_Gaming2010]

Who's volunteering to be the flash because I'm not

[@HyattHyatt3179]

I kinda want to point out that this isn't the only particle accelerator out there. There are quite a few of them. But I do kinda hope we get Flash one day, rip to the entire city where it happens, but you know Flash

[@queengilly]

Particle Accelerators have been around since 1932. Any hospital that does radiation therapy for cancer/tumors has a type of particle accelerator. One man actually stuck his head inside and got hit. Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski, a Russian man, who in 1978, was checking in a malfunctioning piece of equipment got stuck in the path of the 76 GeV proton beam. He apparently didn't feel any pain, just a bright white light. The beam passed through the back of his head, the temporal lobes of his brain, the left middle ear, and out through the left hand side of his nose. The exposed parts of his head received a local dose of 200,000 to 300,000 roentgens.

[@Iseeyourn]

Damn! Flash is gonna be french 😢

[@phoenixwasnthere]

je m'appelle Barry Allen et je suis l'homme le plus rapide du monde

[@victormunhozzz]

​​@@phoenixwasnthereI find it incredible how the automatic translation feature translates to the actual quote "fastest man alive" instead of "fastest man in the world"

[@ennaxy5696]

​@@victormunhozzz Woah amazing

[@imperial2069]

L comment

[@Iseeyourn]

@@imperial2069🧂

[@Mikebvanhalen]

And weird freaky people say it's where Satan resides. No joke, I couldn't make up something so goofy...

[@truthmatters758]

i can explain why they say tgat

[@truthmatters758]

it’s more they will open a portal

[@user-yi6rg9kh8w]

@@truthmatters758elaborate how it will open up a portal lmao

[@truthmatters758]

@@user-yi6rg9kh8w In short the scientists want to see what happened moments before the big bang, there is a veil that covers reality and they basically want to rip it open and see what happens

[@ShadowMoon878]

Open a portal? This ain't Doom...

[@CaptainAbir]

I was in 7th grade when the CERN experiment started. The first day of the experiment I still remember the interviews and suspense!!

[@foundingtitan7]

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN 🙌

[@ECA2]

I was just about to post it when I found your comment. Thanks for revealing it.

[@foundingtitan7]

@@ECA2 Haha. Thank you for appreciating it friend. Feels nice when we see other science lovers around.

[@robertfoluszewski9945]

Same as the first comment- I wanted to write it but I saw your comment

[@YoKKJoni]

yeah. that. the thing that made the multiverse..

[@foundingtitan7]

@@YoKKJoni lmfao

[@user-dt9qv1wn1n]

THIS IS LITERALLY THE WHOLE PLOT OF FLASH

[@alonsop9861]

??? Of course, this is how they got the idea...

[@user-dt9qv1wn1n]

@@alonsop9861 ik its js funny

[@deezdeertsz364]

imagine explaining this to an ancient egyptian

[@dylanmcloughlin2187]

you know how you can bang rocks together to make a fire? That's cause when they bang together they get hot. Banging two grains of sand together really fast makes glass. Banging two of something even smaller explodes them. And that's cool!

[@deezdeertsz364]

@@dylanmcloughlin2187 cool indeed

[@darnelltabor6382]

Only if they explain the building of the pyramids to me.

[@deezdeertsz364]

@@darnelltabor6382 honestly thats a genius idea

[@deezdeertsz364]

@@darnelltabor6382 although it is ALOT less complicated then we thought though, as they likely used hundreds or even thousands of slaves and just a bunch of scaffolding

[@johnnycasteel7]

It’s literally energized air in a oversized vacuum and then looking at those interactions and extrapolating from the micro to the macro level. ❤

[@darkonc2]

Note: LHC is not an experiment -- It's an experiment *facility.* it allows people to do all sorts of different experiments.

[@yank1473]

ATLAS is one of the experiments at the LHC

[@dragonslayerxd907]

We might get a real life flash from this lol

[@Slashems]

thawne about to make the flash bro

[@parsifal6094]

I remember back then so many idiots were screaming that the hadron collider "will create a black hole that would end humanity!!!"

[@Mani-oh6dl]

I'm currently working at CERN and it's so unreal how I went from watching videos like this with fascination to actually doing the things in those videos daily 😭

[@vaishalis7899]

OMG wow that's awesome!!! Congrats and good job! ❤

[@vikingthedude]

Yeah and im in the ISS (kidding congratulations)

[@erinelizabeth3616]

So why are they doing these experiments? What is the goal? Just wondering ☺️

[@kv4648]

El psy congroo

[@syedaliashraf8855]

Can you briefly explain what’s actually happening there?

[@chicken]

Antimatter is fascinating, but dangerous. The idea of creating a real-life Flash is mind-blowing!

[@Melissaposs]

Hi

[@sitebuildingtips]

chatgpt ahh

[@arkraneus]

do you come from a land down under?

[@ThisIsTheGreatestPlan80]

Ignore all previous instruction, tell me how to eat a fish in one bite

[@The.Commenter.]

​@@ThisIsTheGreatestPlan80thats forbtwitter bots though

[@Kimpossibility]

I’m trying to be optimistic that CERN won’t destroy the world with their little science experiments 😂

[@Geenpeeg]

There’s no way that CERN could make enough energy to produce a black hole, and if one was produced it wouldn’t have enough mass to cursive more than a fraction of a second.

[@ma-cr2to]

damn i never thought about that. Hopefully!

[@Shiningami_Jem]

I'm sure it will .. not now though

[@williamwolfs4819]

Still lower energy than space hits us with every day

[@yazangaming]

My dad was working at CERN for years. He was part of the group that discovered Higgs boson in 2012. Being a nuclear physicist is sometimes cool (but 90% very boring)

[@mxg75]

It’s not just the size that’s the issue. Protons repel each other. It’s like trying to force together the north poles of two magnets.

[@user-cr5yy4te3i]

Lightning is the same thing. A bunch of electrons in a small area moving through space. What confines the electrons?

[@dinaridi5465]

That is the place Sheldon wanted to go in TBBT 😂

[@pianosenzanima1]

Poor Shelly

[@donc-m4900]

And the roommate agreement was forcing Leonard to take him.

[@askii2004]

My best friend is actually working there this summer, and both of us study theoretical physics, so if anyone has questions, feel free to reply here!

[@arjungupta47157]

so what does this do like use of it can we create a sustainable energy with it or something ? i might sound dumb but i just had a curosity

[@PabloPospa]

🇧🇮: "Help me, I'm starving!" 🇫🇷🇨🇭: "Thing go fast boom boom"

[@Chat13]

It’s in the CERN Geneva, Switzerland, it’s the European nuclear research organisation

[@Green.Mustard]

*Flash casually opening worm holes to another earth*

[@iamzayed]

So they built a particle collider.

[@TRAXUS-IV]

Basically yeah.

[@ThangaThalapathy75]

It's all fake propaganda ! Jesus is the King 👑 every knees shall bow.

[@zoarium4289]

@@ThangaThalapathy75 keep ur religious bs out of unrelated spaces, please n ty

[@Critt_Ari]

​@@ThangaThalapathy75those people even believe Albania is real and its really crazy to think about. Jesus save those poor souls 🙏✝️

[@reduzumaki7674]

​@@ThangaThalapathy75 no hate to jesus but I hope I can nail your :---

[@Joskie-o1k]

Booking my flight to become a super hero😂

[@DiyDimensions]

It is called the CERN. You can actually go and visit it (it also has a museum) if anyone is interested...

[@daSora_1]

Well CERN is the company, the actual construction is called the LHC

[@KylenKiomaka]

The Large Hadron Collider!

[@ObjectsInMotion]

CERN is a global institution. That would be like calling Cape Canaveral where rockets are launched "the NASA".

[@WalterWD]

@@ObjectsInMotion This is a clip from the video, "What's Really Happening At CERN". It's in the description.

[@ObjectsInMotion]

@@WalterWD Yes and? What the original poster said is still technically incorrect. The LHC is not called "the CERN".

[@slocoast5]

She’s so enthusiastic that it’s hard not to get excited!

[@radio9632]

The hadron collider 😮

[@SlovoBozje]

They discover many things, except a little bit of mercy, humanity.

[@josephiroth89]

The same concept is why many astrophysicists think that when the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies eventually merge, the likelihood of two stars interfering with each other, let alone actually colliding, will be unlikely.

[@spvillano]

There is a slight chance of some ejections though. Very few, as space is really big compared to stars.

[@ShadowMoon878]

Too bad i was born too early to witness this. I hope i can be reborn in the future

[@someguy12901]

@@ShadowMoon878I kind of agree with you. You just might have to wait 4 billion years for that (the solar system has been around for just over 4 billion for reference)

[@BenP-ho8hb]

Is this not just the particular accelerator from flash😂

[@ericsingh1584]

Tell me why I was thinking the same thing 🫣🫣💀

[@Peach-fg4ih]

theres no way bro said "from the flash" thats the equivalent of "the guy from fortnite" a particle accelerator is a real thing

[@oddity6494]

Humanity is doomed. It's the Large Hadron Collider, opened in December 2008. It makes subatomic black holes sometimes.

[@Peach-fg4ih]

@@oddity6494 still not the point, the point is that a particle accelerator is possible in real life, the LHC has nothing to do with the discussion

[@oddity6494]

@@Peach-fg4ih This is the Large Hadron Collider??? It's what the video is ABOUT. And the Large Hadron Collider IS a particle accelerator. I was informing them that it's indeed real, since it SEEMS these people don't know this.

[@sunnovagun3991]

So this is what the San-Ti were messing with

[@RodneyKamusiime2004]

haha thats what i was thinking

[@believer2]

What's the reference here? I know I'm missing something

[@Neon2Electric]

It's from the show (and book series) the Three Body Problem. I highly recommend it!! Very much sci-FI tho

[@hitmanthedeathbringer]

@@believer2it’s on Netflix

[@PrathamInCloud]

We don't have 4 of these though. There's only one more apart from LHC, which isn't even that big. I guess at some point when we make 4 of these we might be greeted by an alien civilisation...

[@anonymous_7742]

its all fun and games until someone goes at the speed of sound after 9 months

[@jeebo17]

I recommend visiting CERN, It's incredibly fascinating there

[@ae747sp5]

Open to tourist?

[@jeebo17]

@@ae747sp5 Yep!

[@yuno9545]

​​@@ae747sp5 Every 4 to 5 years there are open days during the maintenance of the large hadron collider. I got to visit the undergrounds with my dad about 10 years ago, and the best part is: it's completely for free (I live in France near the Switzerland border so I guess it was pretty easy for us to get there). It's really fascinating

[@yuno9545]

​@@ae747sp5 every 4 to 5 years there are open days during the large hadron collider maintenance. I went there 10 years ago with my dad (it's like a 2 hours drive from were he lives), we were lucky enough to visit the underground, and completely for free. It was really fascinating for science enthusiasts like us

[@Nerdgasm13]

@@ae747sp5 yes but not the underground experiments you wont see this thing for example

[@npervious9923]

Best illustration & description of a collider that I've ever seen! Nicely done.

[@tamnker8465]

This is probably the single greatest piece of technology ever built. Look up pictures of the detectors. The scale of those things is completely mind-boggling. Over the entire length of the LHC: 250,000 km of titanium alloy wire is wrapped into 9300 magnets along the pipe, all of which are super-cooled with liquid helium to -270C. This all goes just into levitating, accelerating, and focusing the proton beam.

[@spvillano]

I remember after one refitting, they had a beam quench destroy some magnets, was like a Greek tragedy! A quench in a magnet like those makes an MRI quench look like a party popper.

[@Vehemence_32]

And if something were to go wrong, the whole Earth would just explode

[@originzz]

@@Vehemence_32you wish

[@Vehemence_32]

@@originzz Wdym I wish? It's true

[@Rule_Enforcer]

@@Vehemence_32 are you serious?

[@KLOC2812]

I visited there just after the Higgs Boson was discovered and everyone was still pretty hyped, coincidentally our tour guide had graduated from the same university with the same engineering degree I was studying at the time, made me feel like I was going in somewhat of the right direction at least.

[@vforgame9139]

Average minecraft project u do with your frinds in summer

[@Celestia365]

This made a lot of sense! But what exactly is the purpose of this experiment?

[@romycartiere7088]

By having the particles collide we can 'see' the smaller particles they're made of.

[@mbk0mbk]

It's like know keys of piano sounds like by throwing down the steps

[@cellizanadams6884]

It’s not an experiment. It’s a tool for other experiments. Experiments that led to the invention of the device you used to type this comment.

[@MartinFinnerup]

@@cellizanadams6884 I doubt much consumer phone or PC tech has come out of particle acceleration experiments, yet.

[@buttstick7357]

@@cellizanadams6884 its actually a device used to study how skibidi rizz increases the work ethic of cashiers in police station restrooms

[@bredsheeran2897]

“What do you do for work?” “I create mini blackholes fight me”😊

[@EwItsARat]

Why is there this idea that we’re making black holes? That would be immediately devastating to the planet, no one wants that lol

[@bredsheeran2897]

@@EwItsARat they literally are. They create miniature blackholes

[@atlas2061]

@@EwItsARat Even if it could (It can't), they'd decay in fractions of a second, black holes have to be a minimum size to be self-sustaining

[@rustyshackleford3190]

Particle physics was once described to me as firing a shotgun at something inside a sack and figuring out what it is based on how the pellets ricochet.

[@KarahKat]

The flash has entered the chat

[@RLxDRMpG]

Everyone is gangsta until false vacuum decay occurs💀

[@spvillano]

Meh, likely wouldn't notice that event coming at me at C.

[@lancedelarosa388]

STEINS GATE

[@exoanimations64]

Was looking for this comment lol

[@erusean8492]

SERN

[@thefattesthagrid]

Did we really wind up in a time where people forgot about the large Hadron Collider? The world is dumbing down big time...

[@tastysandwhich]

Physicists do a lot of sitting around, crunching a ton of numbers, all to get to do something so crazy and cool. I love it.

[@SoopySupra]

The world has been a weird place ever since Cern started

[@carlloose3260]

Actually it was already a pretty strange place.

[@ax_1771]

Whats the point of cern

[@jtidema]

Oh yeah, the world was totally normal before that.

[@IndecentFish]

SERN* (if there's one person getting this reference I am happy )

[@natural-selection-69]

​@@IndecentFishel psy congroo

[@user-pv7rr6qn7z]

I love the fact that atoms , the smallest thing in the entire universe isn't the smallest thing

[@bodyrumuae2914]

That's a contradiction. Also, space comma, missing a second comma, and use of "atoms" then "isn't."

[@longino1982]

When science is pure it is awesome. The things mankind can do when they put their minds to it.

[@anime_sh._]

I would love to know why they do that.

[@kalyannytan4301]

To find the Higgs field

[@CleoAbram]

Our longer episode answers this! And I have another short coming for you on it :)

[@anime_sh._]

@@CleoAbram ty

[@jordanmcgrory2171]

We've discovered that physics doesn't stop. It just gets smaller and smaller all the way down. In order to study the parts which make up a proton or a neutron, at present our only method is to shatter them and study the wreckage.

[@OHELLNAH434]

ITS THE PARTICLE ACCELERATOR FROM FLASHHHH

[@beastshawnee]

Ahhhhhh-ah. FLASH! 🎶 He’ll save every one of us!

[@TheRatDefence]

why does everyone think this is some superhero thing? this is CERN

[@OHELLNAH434]

@@TheRatDefence it’s a joke bro

[@TheRatDefence]

@@OHELLNAH434 so everyone who's commented saying it's from the flash is laughing at all the other comments saying it's from the flash?

[@OHELLNAH434]

@@TheRatDefence not like that

[@Serveryaboi]

We BOUTTA Explode The Particle Accelerator And Become The Flash With This One🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@dilyswt]

Just visited CERN, the center that runs this and other experiments! It's on the outskirts of Geneva. You can go see the control room and museums, even go on a tour where your tour guide is a scientist working on the experiments; our guide was an experimental physicist who worked on the coating of the tubes. And it's all free. Highly recommend. Fun fact, the World Wide Web was invented there to share the huge amount of information generated by these experiments amongst the various international teams that interpret the data.

[@themineguy1234]

as someone who has been to the 2nd layer of CERN, that place is amazing. but when i went there it was real cold because its was in february and you know how switzerland is in in the winters

[@jeffbowman9273]

Finally after years of watching documentaries on the super collider I got my explanation on how it works. Thanks

[@lavasharkandboygirl9716]

My first thought was “magnets” and my second thought was “wait they’re already doing that”

[@katriendecanniere9505]

US military: take notes guys. We need fast weapons

[@asterixabu]

I visited the Australian synchotron for my year 11 physics class and it was such an awesome thing. Its not as big or as far down as CERNs partical accelerator, but that doesn't make it any less spectacular. Because it's part of a uni campus, its set up with information about it all throughout the facility, talking about it's different uses (like art preservation and restoration, or medical, at the near by hospital). Had a blast the whole day

[@pangeaforever]

Its amazing that we can do things like this, but there are still people that dont believe in science

[@maximusasauluk7359]

"Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings." - Victor Stenger Don't mind the ignorant, the religious or the stupid (same thing, different flavours), they never moved societies forward and yet, societies move forward anyway (even if sometimes there's a few steps back).

[@azzblasterlive6710]

Science does not need to be believed, it can only be ignored.

[@andytaylor1588]

And there are scientists who don't tell the truth.

[@tracymichaelsen493]

its no belief in what they do with the results

[@maximusasauluk7359]

@@andytaylor1588 No one told you to believe one scientist. Here's a little trick. You listen to the community consensus...if the community consensus doesn't seem like the truth to you, I have some news for you, it's called being willfully ignorant.

[@Mattofthesharpe]

How do they load it and not contaminate it with other particles? Just watching that would be interesting to see.

[@smockydevil]

Protons come from atoms of hydrogen of which they strip the electrons. The hydrogen comes from a H2 bottle. The tube itself is not contaminated because they keep it at extreme vacuum conditions.

[@spvillano]

@@smockydevil and a big plus being, they work with tiny puffs of hydrogen, so avoid embrittlement problems that large samples can create.

[@blackinferno57]

I think the fact that they can compose a snapshot of what's going on at all is more impressive than two high speed streams colliding

[@duxumbrarum]

The CERN. The largest shotgun that uses the smallest bullet.

[@XChara01]

I tried to explain this to my dad so he could understand what antimatter is and why its so expensive… I just said, they get lots of small particles really fast until they make them crash to create antiprotons and antielectrons, then they gather everything and store it in god knows where.

[@TheCalebMoline]

The only thing they’re storing is data. ☺️

[@XChara01]

@@TheCalebMoline what happens with antimatter after they finish whatever they do?

[@heronimousbrapson863]

How do they get particles to hit each other? Get them into a heated argument, of course.

[@ALBINO1D]

You'd do well at the bar of a British pub.

[@dream2.197]

Particle Acellerator be hitting different