I read an article by Ceri Perkins for Sciencefocus.com about CERN!! 'CERN: Everything you need to know' published June 2022.
The things which stood out to me were:
CERN was established in 1954 to prevent the brain drain of European scientists leaving for America, which I think has worked well since over 10,000 scientists work there and is quite famous and is in pop culture - e.g Steins Gate
In 1983 W and Z bosons were discovered at CERN
Tim Berner Lee helped create the world wide web at CERN in 1983, something which has greatly changed all of our lives!!
Anti hydrogen was created!?!? Hydrogens anyiparticle?? Tho I'm not entirely sure what this is ToT I guess it's just an antiproton and an antineutron with an antielectron?!?! Imma have to look it up ;-;
QUARK GLUON PLASMA!?!?! WHATS THIS!?!? A NEW STATE OF MATTER NAMED AFTER MY BOYS QUARKS!?!?
Also the particle collider itself is created by superconducting magnets!! And they're cooled to -271.3°c so about 10K ish....you know what super conductors are!?? They're conductors which are cooled below a critical/ transition temperature where the conductor gains a resistance of zero!! Its verrry efficient!! Hence why it's used here!! However its verrry expensive so the real question is whether its cheaper to use super conductors or to have resistance? But with superconductors the current could effectively move forever and the energy transfers would be 100% efficient but the cost of cooling it?? What do you think?
