What's the point of the particle collider/large hadron collider?

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It's not a collider. It's a timeline-manipulation machine.
Look at the times when it was on vs when it wasn't running and look how fucky things got.
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And from 2021 on:
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sedoL said:
@Drain Todger any ideas?
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Generally, with particle accelerators, the goal is to slam particles together in the detector to try and find out their energy (and produce otherwise unobservable kinds of particles through the high-energy collisions), and see if the kinds of particles predicted by existing theories are actually real or not. The purpose of a particle accelerator is to kind of nail down physical constants that would otherwise basically be theoretical only. For instance, you can predict that something like a Higgs Boson exists, but you won't know its actual mass until you get smashing.
 
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