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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
| − | The {{w|Large Hadron Collider}} (LHC) is the world's largest particle accelerator, used in physics research, and particularly for finding the {{w|Higgs Boson}}. The Higgs Boson | + | The {{w|Large Hadron Collider}} (LHC) is the world's largest particle accelerator, used in physics research, and particularly for finding the {{w|Higgs Boson}}. The Higgs Boson is a particle which gives other particles their mass and until its first discovery in 2012, tentatively confirmed to exist in March 2013, it was the last particle of the {{w|Standard Model}} of Physics not have been experimentally confirmed. |
| − | At the time of this comic's writing, the LHC was nearing completion, and the comic imagines | + | At the time of this comic's writing, the LHC was nearing completion, and the comic imagines technicians working at the LHC and not having any visual confirmation of what happens. Since they can't see the Higgs Boson, they can only wait for the theorists to determine what actually happened. The comic jokes that the bored technicians would fry pigeons and give helicopters cancer with the proton stream, neither of which are actually possible. This is because the stream is contained within the LHC, and non-organic entities can't get cancer. However, the radiation from the stream might have some major effects on pigeons. |
| − | + | At that time there was also a big concern by some people that the LHC could produce {{w|Micro black hole|microscopic black holes}}. But because {{w|Cosmic ray|cosmic rays}} contain particles, moving at higher energies, still hitting Earth's atmosphere regularly it should be impossible that the LHC could create a black hole. So many jokes where published like this video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INodNZY5ytE "LHC End of The World Black Hole"]. | |
| − | + | The title text makes another joke about the effects of highly charged particles, claiming that when they pass through a {{w|bubble chamber}} (an older particle detection device) they leave a trail of candy. | |
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| − | The title text makes another joke about the effects of highly | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
:The Large Hadron Collider, CERN... | :The Large Hadron Collider, CERN... | ||
:Megan: Okay, moment of truth. "click" | :Megan: Okay, moment of truth. "click" | ||
| − | :Large Hadron Collider: " | + | :Large Hadron Collider: "VVVVVRRMMMMM" |
:Cueball: Do you see the Higgs Boson? | :Cueball: Do you see the Higgs Boson? | ||
:Megan: Nope. | :Megan: Nope. | ||
