Countless cosmic rays hit the atmosphere every day with many orders of magnitude more energy than LHC could ever muster. I read somewhere that it would take a particle accelerator with the diameter of Earth's orbit around the sun, to achieve the energies we've seen in particles that smack into the atmosphere over our heads all the time.
But, our pursuit of subatomic knowledge has rewarded us with the standard model of particle physics, along with a surprisingly deep understanding of quantum mechanics.
Countless cosmic rays hit the atmosphere every day with many orders of magnitude more energy than LHC could ever muster. I read somewhere that it would take a particle accelerator with the diameter of Earth's orbit around the sun, to achieve the energies we've seen in particles that smack into the atmosphere over our heads all the time.
But, our pursuit of subatomic knowledge has rewarded us with the standard model of particle physics, along with a surprisingly deep understanding of quantum mechanics.
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