Just make one big enough that you can use billionaires instead of atomic particles
Do billionaires split apart into multiple millionaires, and anti-tax neutrinos?
That’s only in the movies. In reality they just completely evaporate. Usually they just evaporate. They take up a lot of volume but aren’t terribly filling.
/s
You just aren’t cooking yours right
No its like when sonic dies and all his rings spilled out
There’s only one way to find out.
I may be an anti billionaire
Were you created when a billionaire formed in a high energy event?
or invent a board with a nail in it for that iono
I really like where this is going, keep talking
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We have a perfectly good collider at home.
Should have had. That was sad when we gave that up in favor of military spending
However, it also wouldn’t have been as big
Our collider is now two baseball pitchers aimed at each other.
I think it was more due to the ISS, Reagan only wanted one international science project
Meanwhile, Star Wars.
After 22.5 km (14 mi) of tunnel had been bored and about US$2 billion spent, the project was canceled by the US Congress in 1993.
LMAO
As a former Texan, yes that’s a city name. And you’ll probably pronounce it correctly.
Wax-a-hatch-y?
Wax a haji
The way it’s typed out makes it sound like a Vince Russo quote lol
Shit Sabine Hossenfelder would say. (She funny tho…)
She also did an interview with a holocaust denier so…
Oh ew, really? I’m not overly surprised to be honest, her video on trans people was awful.
That means you missed her video on how capitalism is good actually. It’s about as horrid as you’d expect.
Is she the reincarnation of Ayn Rand?
Not that bad. She’s still dapable of logical conclusions. Just ignorant, really…
Oh is this the one where she claims that without capitalism there’d be no innovation?
Yeah, and she doesn’t properly explain what it is, reproduces the barter myth, etc.
The titles on some of her videos manage to be too fishy for my taste, they appear a lot on my feed due to watching a lot of videos from channels like PBS Spacetime and The History Of The Universe, stuff like that.
You can tell that she knows her stuff, but clickbait titles somewhat like, I paraphrase here: “A year ago I lost my faith in science, here’s why”, raise my suspicions and I move on without clicking. Right on the blurry edge between science and something else beyond that line, something that’s not quite legit and not good for you.
Same for me. I had watched one video of hers because I watch those same channels and afterwards i looked her up and saw the controversial shit. The clickbait doesn’t help her image either. Hard pass for me.
This is the conversation I needed to finally block (or “not recommend”, or whatever YouTube calls it) her videos on my feed.
Astrum also sometimes gives me an uneasy feeling, but so far the content appears to be solid, although I don’t watch all his videos.
Hey, let me recommend one of the best channels out there in the vast sea of science/history YouTube content, the name is ParallaxNick.
He’s been doing incredibly well-research videos on the history of astronomy, recently he’s been doing a series that went into detail on Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler and Galileo, I suspect (fingers crossed tight) he’s gonna follow with Newton, then Huygens, Halley and the Herschels.
Absolutely horrendous. I stopped watching her after that. I don’t care if it was good intentioned or not, she obviously should have expanded her understanding of the topic before presenting herself as an expert on it, and that makes me wonder how many other topics she covers in this way.
I didn’t see that one on her view of trans people, but her recent one on nuclear power was nearly biased and selective enough to be called “disinformation”.
Honestly the intro of it was enough for me to click out of it initially. She says
On the one side you have people claiming that it’s a socially contagious fad among the brainwashed woke who want to mutilate your innocent children. On the other side there are those saying that it’s saving the lives of minorities who’ve been forced to stay in the closet for too long. And then there are normal people, like you and I, who think both sides are crazy and could someone please summarise the facts in simple words, which is what I’m here for.
As a cis-man, I detest the notion that wanting trans people to have access to healthcare and equal human rights to the rest of us is in any way “crazy.”
She further goes on to cite a disputed article in an open-access journal regarding rapid-onset gender dysphoria from a known biased source as though it carries actual weight.
The article in question basically claims that rapid-onset gender dysphoria is an actual phenomenon because the author polled parents of children on a transphobic forum, about whether or not the child “becoming trans” was a sudden event. There are multiple problems with this
- The parents are the source of supposed truth
- The parents likely have an inherent bias (being that they are on a transphobic forum)
It is possible - and in my opinion - plausible that the parents experience it as having a “rapid onset” because the children spent a lot of time hiding this aspect of themselves from the parents because the parents express LGBT+ phobic views. I concealed many parts of my personality from my abusive mother, and I know several trans people who didn’t come out to their parents until such a time they felt it safe to do so.
From the parents perspective their kid moved out (e.g. to uni) and spontaneously changed gender from one day to the next, but at that stage their friends had been referring to them by their chosen names and pronouns for years.
This is what I took away from it as well. The fact that she so readily quoted really biased and disputed articles and presented them as though they carried as much weight as the actual science sat really wrong with me. She clearly didn’t spend very long looking into the articles she presented.
It makes me think of LLMs, really. She talks with authority about a lot of subjects, but ultimately she’s a physicist. Sure, she’s scientifically literate and that can be used to make sense of articles and studies in other disciplines, at least to an extent. However, it doesn’t make her an authority in any of those disciplines. Then there’s the time constraint to keep in mind as well; she might be able to analyse the literature and give a sensible take on the matter, but not when her schedule involves making one ~5 minute video on any given topic per day.
Ok, that I didn’t know. Off to find some references.
(I have fairly strong opinions about people like that. Hell, I refuse to watch any Tom Cruise movies because of his association with scientology, just as an example.)
As much as I love science, and I’d much rather see billions spent on a collider than war, I gotta admit this is funny as hell.
I feel like this should be required watching for anyone who wants to better understand colliders and the politics around them. BobbyBroccoli made this series on the development of some of them.
Also that West Wing episode where a physicist is trying to get funding for our Collider and the staffer is like “what does it do? What practical applications does it have?” and the physicist says none. It’s practical application is discovery. That we discovered penicillin on accident not when we were researching practical applications of injections.
I don’t want to learn science from someone named BobbyBroccoli.
Bill Nye is literally just called the science guy and we got invaluable information from him.
Well maybe I’ll call up Broccoli Man if I need info on Broccoli
Bold claim from a monkey puppet, jk. I’ve watched his channel it’s really good. I found the videos on the collider to be really interesting.
Bold claim from a monkey puppet
How convenient; you won’t be learning science! You’ll be learning history!
Yay!
How about Robby Ravioli instead?
Of course it was fucking Reagan.
You just know the letters of the FCC originally stood for Fucking Collosal Collider.
And from there, we’re one step closer to BFG
No, it was the Large Hardon Collider, and this is the Fat Cock Collider.
Contractor, scratching head:
Hey boss, are you sure they got the dimensions right in this drawing of their new proton smasher?
Next to the scale it just says “GIRTHY”.
Gotta do it before trisolarians come for us.
Those goddam sophons keeps jacking up our shit
What if they added smaller loops along the main loop, like a roller coaster with loopdy-loops? 🤔
You find a whee! little boson.
Ahh yes, the infamous Dadjoke particle
Now that you’ve said this I want to know if other shapes without corners are possible
But also why do they need a bigger collider
More speed probably
Now that you’ve said this I want to know if other shapes without corners are possible
The squircle :)
There will be.
Colliders work best at specific speeds, like gears on a car. The big collider is fed by a smaller one. That one is likely fed by an even smaller one. Eventually, you get small enough that a simple linear accelerator can get the gas up to speed.
Oh, and likely a scientist/engineer grinning manically as they “push the trigger” on the largest rail gun in existence.
Even the ones not pushing the trigger on the biggest rail gun in existence do this.
The doctors do too. It’s… Concerning if you don’t know why they get so excited.
The difference between science, and blowing shit up, is in the recording.
for context 22 billion is a few billions less than what elon musk overpaid for twitter. i don’t think a bigger collider will do anything but I’d like for humanity to have this rather than whatever the fuck the rich are doing now.
You should think again about what they actually can do.
https://cerncourier.com/a/lhc-upgrade-brings-benefits-beyond-physics/
LHC and previous colliders did a lot of science. You don’t need to think, there are facts.
Yeah… And at least this will generate jobs… And not reduce them like it did on Xitter.
Cern has produced quite some interesting systems for software and data management. I am sure the added value of the work is beyond just understanding particles.
22 billion is half of what Elon paid for Twitter. He paid 44 billion.
So this seems like a pretty good bargain for unlocking the secrets of the universe.
if i remember correctly twitter was evaluated as 20 billion before musk bought it, so he overpaid by 24 billion dollars which is a couple billion dollars more than the price tag quoted here.
To be fair I think he only paid $14 billion. The rest came from other investors like Saudia Arabia
For your money you can have “A social media platform that’s on fire or the secrets of the universe and money for another project. What do you choose?” “The dumpster fire social media platform”
Just wait, if civilization and/or human life still exists in a thousand years or so, they’ll build one into an orbital ring.
Eh who am I kidding, well be lucky to survive the 21st century.
Dual purpose Dyson Ring?
Unless asteroid … we will survive, how is another matter.
The really wanna blow up the earth huh
No.
What would happen if we put a small collider inside of a bigger collider and spun it around while it spun around?
“Yo dawg, I heard you like colliders, so we built a collider into your collider so it can collide while it collides…”
You are asking something different, but I think it’s interesting to mention that the particles that go into the LHC don’t start there. The LHC gets them from the SPS, which gets them from the PS and this keeps going for a few more steps.
SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD QUESTION 22 BILLION DOLLARS WOULD ANSWER.
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I dont remember ever reading they were trying to find dark matter with particle colliders. Read New Scientist for years too. They have deep mountain detectors for dark matter that are nothing like particle accelerators. Memes are great and funny and all, but not always based upon reality. And why shouldnt science be used to figure out how things are constructed, even the fundamentals of the universe…?
The thing is that the general public never sees the line between toy lab experiment to factory production line. To be fair that path is nebulous and doesn’t follow a schedule, so it is hard to sell. On the topic of selling this is often funded by the government too, so people want to jump in and say "free market… " when corporations don’t show up until the last mile.
Yes I’ve pointed this out about the internet for years.
