msmaxwell: ((h) confused)
msmaxwell ([personal profile] msmaxwell) wrote in [community profile] alicornutopia 2016-03-29 09:42 pm (UTC)

"I mean, it's not my dad's stuff, the really sensitive sensors are really huge, and CERN doesn't have one of those yet, they started building it last year. I dunno what'd happen with magic around it, but the way these things work is that like... The physicists have this model of how particles work and what they do, and then they're like, 'if we're right about this and we do that, then this will happen,' so they go ahead and do that and see if the thing happens. Like, throwing one particle at another and seeing how much energy's released, I guess, or something. And if they get it wrong they spend a while trying to figure out why and coming up with new things to test."

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