Inside The World's Largest Particle Accelerator

The Large Hadron Collider is a 27 kilometer atom smasher! How does it work and what can it tell us about the make-up of our universe?


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CERN Overview Animation
"This animation shows how the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) works."

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Excitement Grows As Large Hadron Collider Hints At New Particle
"When hundreds of physicists gathered this week in La Thuile, an old mining town in the heart of the Italian alps, one short and simple question hung in the cool, crisp air: is it real? The source of their fascination, and no little excitement, was light. Not the sunlight that made the snow glint on the mountains in the Aosta valley, but light inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) across the border near Geneva. The machine had detected more photons than expected as it smashed particles beneath the quiet Swiss countryside. The brief flashes of light might be the first glimpse of the next big discovery."

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[Master_Therion]

One thing I don't understand about the LHC. It sits on the boarder of Switzerland and France, and Switzerland is a neutral country... so what happens to the positively charged protons when they cross into Switzerland. Do they become neutrons?

[AntMixFilms]

Did you know what the Physicist was talking about? You nodded so much like how I nodded during physics class when my teacher tried to teach me about general relativity.

[LionileBruh]

this whole video I'm just thinking about the Flash explosion

[madarauchiha]

*0:40*
*Even these small particles are smashing, and you're still single.*

[TraceDominguez]

I worked really hard on this you guys, I'm so happy you finally get to see 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[guus]

From observing the footage of the particles colliding, there is a few milliseconds for the collision to cool down before another collision happens. These particles move at 99.997% the speed of light, and is still currently being worked on my CERN to get a lot faster. As stated here, the particles also tend to miss each other, making the collisions even more inconsistent. So by theory, if we were to achieve 99.998% of the speed of light or higher, while also maintaining the particles at a specific point in which the chances of missing each other is only slim, or increasing the quantities of the particles to have a higher collision consistency, it may be possible to generate dark matter. This happens because the increased consistency and speed, ultimately disabling the few milliseconds of no contact, will increase the number of collisions in a short amount of time that the odds of creating dark matter increases by 5% the initial percentage. so in short monke explanation, more particle, more fast, make more collision big chance black hole material.

[juanpabloarrieta]

I'm studying physics in Mexico and watching this make me feel more excited to know more about the universe, about particles... everything about science! Thanks for sharing!

[lifenoggin]

Wow wow wow! This was so neat, Trace!

[ryzmckenzie]

Any chance we can become meta humans from it? 😂😂

[petegeorgopoulos]

it is crazy how this seems like both the most scientifically advanced thing and the work of a drunk person.

- "hey bill, you start throwing this shit at me and ill start throwing this shit at you and lets see what happens"
-"but what if we can't get it to hit?"
-"Just keep throwing shit until it hits, and stop your bitchin"

[DevPatel-jfyg]

4:38 exactly how I pretend to have understood everything in front of my teacher.

[ishmaelfreckleton]

That guy who was interviewing her didnt understand sh!t she said he was just nodding his head!!!!

[ventii_kun]

Yooo they really made a real life Star Labs!

[Reromer]

Trace is nodding throughout the whole video like he doesn't even know what they're talking about :D

[milkyman]

"These smashings, are called collision."

well gee, i though it was called avoiding

[ginatails]

Nine months ago, the Particle Accelerator went online exactly as planned. For 45 minutes, I had achieved my life's dream. And then - then there was an anomaly. The electron volts became immeasurable, the ring under us popped. Energy from that detonation was thrown into the sky and that, in turn, seeded a storm cloud...

[HuNtS]

This is probably the most well made D-News video I've seen.

[spellswap]

Nooo we must stop SERN! OKarin stopped you once and he shall do it again! God I miss steins gate rip

[nickthepick]

Outside: nodding
Inside: wtf is she saying

[fegolem]

Do the detectors eventually get damaged by all the collision particles? If so, what usually gets damaged first or the most?