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Exploring the Large Hadron Collider: The Quest for New Discoveries
TLDR The Large Hadron Collider, located on the border between Switzerland and France, is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in history. Its main goal is to prove the existence of the Higgs boson particle and search for evidence of dark matter, antimatter, string theory, and supersymmetry. Despite concerns about potential dangers, the scientists working on the project dismiss these worries as unlikely.
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The Large Hadron Collider is a scientific facility located on the border between Switzerland and France, where scientists shoot beams of light around a 17-mile track to study particles like the Higgs Boson.
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The Large Hadron Collider is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in history, and its main goal is to prove the existence of the Higgs boson particle, which is theorized to give mass to matter and fill out the standard model of particle physics.
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The Large Hadron Collider is also looking for dark matter, antimatter, evidence of string theory, and supersymmetry.
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The Large Hadron Collider is searching for evidence of supersymmetry, which would prove string theory and help explain dark matter, and most scientists are hoping to learn that everything they know is wrong in order to discover new things.
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The Large Hadron Collider consists of a 17-mile track underground, with six stations outfitted with sensors to measure various things, and it collects 15 petabytes of data every year.
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The Large Hadron Collider accelerates proton beams to near the speed of light and directs them to collide, creating 600 million collisions per second and potentially recreating the beginning of the universe.
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The concern is that the Large Hadron Collider may create black holes and strangelits, which could potentially destroy the Earth, although CERN dismisses these concerns as hypothetical and unlikely.
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The physicists propose a card game to determine whether or not the Large Hadron Collider should be shut down, but it is unlikely that this will actually happen.
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One of the scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider was arrested in France as an al-Qaeda suspect, but it is unlikely that this has anything to do with al-Qaeda trying to get their hands on the LHC.
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