Inside the ATOM SMASHER
Mar 17, 2022
3 minutes
WORDS ANDREW MAY
f you see a news headline about exotic new subatomic particles, the I chances are the discovery was made at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, located near Geneva in Switzerland. A recent example occurred in January 2022, when CERN scientists announced “evidence of X particles in the quark-gluon plasma produced in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)”. Hiding behind that technospeak is the eye-popping fact that CERN succeeded in recreating a situation that hasn’t occurred naturally since a few microseconds after the Big Bang. That particular study drew on
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