• Question: What is the hadron collider?

    Asked by Sharmin_the BEST to Chris, Hayley, Jimi, Omur on 16 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Jimi Wills

      Jimi Wills answered on 16 Mar 2016:

      A very large circle that accelerates particles at eachother at very high speeds to try and make them fall apart into smaller particles…

      There are a lot of unsolved theories in physics that it can help answer.

    • Photo: Chris Conselice

      Chris Conselice answered on 16 Mar 2016:

      It’s called a particle accelerator. It movies particles, like atoms at speeds close to the speed of light and collides them together going in opposite directions. This produces all kinds of new and exotic physics that we can then study, such as new particles.

    • Photo: Hayley Moulding

      Hayley Moulding answered on 18 Mar 2016:

      It is a really really big machine like thing in Switzerland, or under Switzerland to be precise, and other countries!! It is a massive doughnut shaped thing which increased the speed of particles heading towards each other. It tries to make them get smaller and smaller.

      It could make physics explode! Joking, but it could help understand physics better!

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