How Does it Work?





You might think that this process would take a tremendous amount of energy and you would be right. That is why the entire process is cooled with liquid helium to create superconductivity along the track. Otherwise the coils carrying 13,000 amps would fail (which they did in 2008 when the coils went above -271 celcius causing resistance to re-enter the coils)


This was not the first particle accelerator ever built. Other much smaller ones have been built but as seen in the video, the larger the diameter of the track, the higher capacity of speed and energy. So why would we want that? well, we have observed subatomic particles under standard collisions but with much more energetic collisions, we can see the very nature of quantum mechanics: The Higgs bozon


The Higgs particle was theororized in 1964 by physicist Peter Higgs and was thought as the 'God Particle' because it basically gives all particles mass as they go through the Higgs field.


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