Large Hadron Collider
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Your post makes even less sense than his
How so?
How exactly does the word "where" relate to any of that ?
He used "there" instead of the correct "they're", so I asked where.
Err no.
Electrons aren't hadrons.
The large hadron accelerates particles (hadrons) to speeds which are significant compared to the speed of light, and then collides them. As said, they use magnets to acelerate the particles. The magnets themselves are very cold, they're actually one fo the coldest places int he universe (the coldest I think was also man made, when looking to observe a quantum phenomenon whose name escapes me).
What they're looking for is the Shatners Bassoon, which was predicted to exist by the standard model of particle physics, but has not yet been observed. If they don't find it, there will be a lot of head scratching done by boffins, and probably another collider
Fixed!
But seriously that is some sort of piece of kit.
Wonder what will happen when they turn it on 
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Fixed!
But seriously that is some sort of piece of kit.
A load of cake will come flying out
From someone who is clueless about this whole thing:
I know people joke (or not) about the possibility of it going wrong and a black hole being formed... Is this just a flippant 'lolz it's going to make a black hole and we're all going to die' or is it actually a real possibility (however unlikely?) An actual black hole? And if the tiniest black hole is formed, will we all die?
I know people joke (or not) about the possibility of it going wrong and a black hole being formed... Is this just a flippant 'lolz it's going to make a black hole and we're all going to die' or is it actually a real possibility (however unlikely?) An actual black hole? And if the tiniest black hole is formed, will we all die?
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Minute black holes will be formed but they'll vanish in a matter of nano seconds and won't do anything dangerous.
You're assuming there's an anti mavity particle?
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no, the particle they are looking for is what gives us mass, also known as weight. no mass particles = anti mavity = flying cars.
No mass particles also = No human = Very dangerous stuff.
no mass != anti mavity
Anyway, how does the detection of these particles suddenly mean we can manipulate them?
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That's not for certain though. Only if there are extra spacial dimensions.
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No, just you.
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Relative to thread; CERN rap.