Listen to the LHC’s Weird, Whale-Like Sounds - Facts So Romantic
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To refer to the Large Hadron Collider merely as the world’s largest machine, or the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, would be to engage in prosaic understatement—the Collider is nothing less than a scientific and engineering wonder of the world. Nominally an underground ring 27 kilometers in circumference, the Collider is tasked with accelerating, in opposite directions, bunches of protons to within a millionth of a percent of the speed of light. I started my work there as a theoretical physicist in 2012, anticipating enjoying interactions with fellow theoretical physicists like the ones Alan Lightman once described over a decade ago, in the New York Times: “the exhilaration of seeing brilliant people at work, watching their minds leap right in front of me—not the brooding (...)
