Talk:2511: Recreate the Conditions

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Notice that the picture of the palm tree looks kind of like the spray of particles in the first slide. Barmar (talk) 05:03, 4 September 2021 (UTC) One goal of particle colliders such as LHC at CERN is to recreate conditions similar to those few seconds after the Big Bang, but they have still not destroyed the earth. -- 162.158.129.67 (talk) 06:08, 4 September 2021‎ (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

That we know of... 162.158.159.71 12:41, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

I believe one of Tom Scott's oldest videos is about a pina collider that he built. 172.70.130.211 13:24, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Yes, Here it is Rtanenbaum (talk) 16:33, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

People designing particle accelerators have observed that one problem with new accelerators is attracting qualified people to come work there. This was a particular problem with FRIB in Michigan, due to the weather/climate. The obvious solution is to plan to build an accelerator in a place to which lots of people would like to relocate, e.g., Tahiti. Sorry, I can't find this in print; it was just less-than-fully-serious conversations at conferences.172.68.141.225 01:13, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

I doubted that there are so many particle accelerators that scientists would be choosy about the location and wouldn't jump at any chance they had. Then I found that there are over 30,000 particle accelerators in the world Ten Things You Didn't Know About Particle Accelerators Rtanenbaum (talk) 02:37, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
This comics resembles final picture and title text from https://what-if.xkcd.com/129/. 172.68.244.173 11:27, 5 September 2021 (UTC)