Addiction is a scary thing

As much as I love science, and I’d much rather see billions spent on a collider than war, I gotta admit this is funny as hell.

“Ok, but what does this collider do, that the one you have in the garage won’t do ?”

Mrs Cern.

I'd rather have a 100km particle collider than an aircraft carrier.

for context 22 billion is a few billions less than what elon musk overpaid for twitter. i don't think a bigger collider will do anything but I'd like for humanity to have this rather than whatever the fuck the rich are doing now.

we almost built a really fucking big collider in the US somewhere in the middle of fuck off land texas.

It died.

If scientists had their way they'd have built the big one first. Or at least something reasonably larger than what they have.. it's politics that is capitalism and war that is the addiction preventing us from having nice things

22 billion is such a drop in the bucket for a pan-European, decades long project. That's enough money to fund Israel's genocide for like, 72 hours.

Is not only about physics research. The complexity of those projects fund hundreds of sectors and push forward new technologies who will have many commercial use.

...Also they've confirmed the existence of this little thing called Higgs Boson which field define pretty much reality, soo... not exactly wasted time.

I'm waiting on the equatorial supercollider myself. 40,075km let's go!

Just make one big enough that you can use billionaires instead of atomic particles

I feel like this should be required watching for anyone who wants to better understand colliders and the politics around them. BobbyBroccoli made this series on the development of some of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivVzGpznw1U

You know what WOULD solve physics?

TRAINS

And I think it's beautiful.

What would happen if we put a small collider inside of a bigger collider and spun it around while it spun around?

You just know the letters of the FCC originally stood for Fucking Collosal Collider.

This is starting to turn into some Full Metal Alchemist shit. If you know, you know.

How else will we transmogrify enough souls to create a philosopher stone --- I mean do science stuff?

22 billion is just a drop in the bucket to the Committee of 300 on their path to world domination.

What if they added smaller loops along the main loop, like a roller coaster with loopdy-loops? 🤔

Just wait, if civilization and/or human life still exists in a thousand years or so, they'll build one into an orbital ring.

Eh who am I kidding, well be lucky to survive the 21st century.

Starting to be suspicious like an alchemy circle around multiple cities...

Daily reminder that the World Wide Web was invented at CERN, so somewhere around the LHC highlighted in the picture. Who knows what the next big random innovation will be.

Maybe we could convince the military that they are rail guns. Yeah, it's rail gun research, and it will finally result in the defeat of those...other guys.

Of course, it will never work because they only trust a few companies like Lockheed to do their dirty stuff.

I dont remember ever reading they were trying to find dark matter with particle colliders. Read New Scientist for years too. They have deep mountain detectors for dark matter that are nothing like particle accelerators. Memes are great and funny and all, but not always based upon reality. And why shouldnt science be used to figure out how things are constructed, even the fundamentals of the universe..?

Probably have a ton of tunnel builders unemployed over there

Interferometers are moving to space launches, maybe colliders need to do the same if they keep growing bigger

The microwave at the Future Gadgets Lab is about to experience one hell of an upgrade.

They should make it square because squares are cool

Gotta do it before trisolarians come for us.

The way it's typed out makes it sound like a Vince Russo quote lol

Third and fourth-gen nuclear would be helpful.

The Wheel of Osheim stops for no one

Put that 20 billions first into fusion research. Like yesterday. How on earth would we power and cool that 100 km of superconductors otherwise? Unless the 100 km FCC is required by the fusion research, then we have a pickle.

It's true tho. We need them bigger bois!

We'll make sophons one of these days.

Perhaps with a big collider we'll finally be able to get confirmation on the cause of sinking soufflés - the bigon!

Shit Sabine Hossenfelder would say. (She funny tho..)

Edit: I had no idea about her questionable actions so that is news to me.

I feel like their marketing needs a rewrite, everyone vaguely knew the LHC was to identify the Higgs Boson, what's this one for, gravitons?

Maybe it's time to admit that maybe Dark Matter doesn't exist, and we need a different hypothesis to explain the universe?

Israel better start to follow the Geneva convention and start building particle accelerators under their cities.

The really wanna blow up the earth huh