Just an artist who loves life and professional procrastinator!
Hi! I’m not the biggest fan of wasps, but I wouldn’t kill them. It’s best to get a cup or glass and a piece of paper or cardboard, then release them outside, so they can’t sting you, and are out of your way! I understand your disdain for them, but wasps are also valuable pollinators, so please don’t kill them!
I love bees! Sometimes I can’t help but gaze closely at them as they’re wedging themselves in the digitalis purpurea and working hard for their hive!
I feel personally attacked here
Her name was Kabosu and she died at the grand old age of 18! She must’ve had a very happy life. May she rest in peace 😇🐶
Yup! It’s so they can view what happens when these particles collide as the collisions happen, using specialized detectors. The ATLAS detector at CERN weighs 7,000 tons and is huge.
These reactions in the atmosphere happen very fast and are a bit chaotic. When a primary cosmic ray hits an atom in our atmosphere, it then sets off a chain reaction similar to billiard balls, resulting in “air showers”, which are cascades of subatomic particles, such as hadrons, photons, muons, electrons, as well as ionized nuclei. The colliders allow physicists to view these kinds of reactions under controlled conditions right as the reactions happen, and can adjust things such as the energies. There’s an array of detectors in Argentina which can detect the particles released by an air shower
Perhaps with a big collider we’ll finally be able to get confirmation on the cause of sinking soufflés - the bigon!
Don’t worry! Though black holes may sound scary, microscopic black holes, the type that could hypothetically be produced by high-energy particle collisions such as this, would pretty much instantaneously (in approximately 10-27 seconds) evaporate due to the emission of Hawking radiation, before they could “suck up” anything. Cosmic rays of far higher intensities than what we could produce routinely collide with atoms in Earth’s atmosphere, so microscopic black holes could be happening daily in our atmosphere, we just never see them because they’re far too small and evaporate instantly.
It’s so strange how meteorites always seem to land in craters