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Time to Think Beyond the Large Hadron Collider

Posted November 13, 2012 10:01 AM

From New Scientist:

SO WE'VE finally found it. Or have we? Four months on, the identity of the particle snared at the Large Hadron Collider remains unclear.

It may indeed be the much-vaunted Higgs boson. Or it might not. Finding out will require a welter of tests hard to do in the messy environment of the LHC's proton collisions.

What's needed is... wait for it... a successor to the LHC. Physicists have already started dreaming of another huge particle smasher, this time based on electrons, to finally pin down the Higgs.

Read more here:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628902.900-time-to-think-beyond-the-large-hadron-collider.html

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Re: Time to Think Beyond the Large Hadron Collider

11/13/2012 10:06 AM

Yes, we should start thinking of the Super Duper Collider....

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11/13/2012 10:21 AM

Nah, I want a Small Hadron Collider that will fit on my coffee table.

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Re: Time to Think Beyond the Large Hadron Collider

11/13/2012 4:19 PM

Yes, every home should have one. Preferably in perspex and brushed aluminium, with flashing LEDs and lasers.
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Re: Time to Think Beyond the Large Hadron Collider

11/13/2012 11:33 AM

Electrons? I thought the whole point of using protons is that because their rest mass is 1870 times larger than the electron, you get more subatomic bang for your giga-buck$. Seem to me that using electrons is going the wrong way. Maybe they should think of colliding Higgs particles together.

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11/13/2012 11:39 AM

Maybe we should just skip about thinking of the super duper colider and go with the "Super, Duper, Double Dog Dare you Collider"

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11/13/2012 4:26 PM

Maybe they should think of colliding cheese. The secrets of the European psyche are revealed in their different cheeses, and I'm convinced the secrets of the universe can also be found there. Besides, Cern is surrounded by some of the best cheese-making country in the world.
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11/16/2012 3:05 AM

Why don't they just collide Higgs particles and be done with it?

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Re: Time to Think Beyond the Large Hadron Collider

11/13/2012 12:46 PM

Let's just slow down here. Is the LHC like a laundry soap?

OK, we've done LHC's, what's next on the hit parade?

If the next step is this close to the last step, maybe we should just wait a year and then start on the next level after the "beyond the LHC" level.

That'll save 30-40 billion $ USD.
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11/14/2012 4:27 AM

Is LynDoor Industries™ working on a design?

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11/14/2012 9:03 AM

Working? It's finished! We're working on shrinking it down to table-top size.

We're currently having labor problems with the African contract workers though.

Something about wanting more human sacrifices before they continue with the shrinking process.

We're trying to find a way to automate the process and remove the labor issues from the mix. Strange lot, these little people.
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11/14/2012 9:05 AM

We're working on shrinking it down to table-top size.

Hey I got an idea, in stead of shrinking the size of the collider, make the coffee table bigger, It will still conform to the scope!

.......Your Welcome!

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