Physicists May Be Inventors
June 23, 2020
Physics is a fascinating subject. There’s the high school variety involving steel balls, magnets, and fire. Then there is the world of wonky “things” like quarks, flavors, and wimps. (No, wimp does not mean a polo player afraid of falling off his or her equine dynamical system.)
“CERN Wants to Build a new $23 Billion Super-Collider That’s 100 Kilometers Long” explains that the hadron folks need to up the ante. The idea is that wackos who embrace string theory and the neo-Einsteinians will be outflanked; misguided miscreants who cannot dis-CERN that progress in physics is more than wonk-babble emitted by pundits who are not bounded by the time and space of mere mortals.
The write up reports:
CERN wants to build a successor to the Large Hadron Collider to further study the Higgs boson particle.
I learned:
The Large Hadron Collider took a decade to build and cost around $4.75 billion. Most of that money came from European countries like Germany, the UK, France and Spain. Some believe that countries like the US and Japan might need to pony up for this second collider if it’s actually going to get built.
The money will be found! Physicists have to have a gizmo big enough to permit physicists to make the leap between observing fundamental phenomena to creating objects.
Mother Nature is obviously not performing up to the Ernest Rutherford. Are physicists becoming inorganic chemists with a better understanding of fancy math? Yep. The need to find has may be veering into create via a big, expensive machine hopefully with better reliability than the existing collider.
Stephen E Arnold, June 23, 2020
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