Saturn is one step ahead of us
Perfect! A bunch of raw materials are already there! We just need to refine them and assemble them into a particle collider.
Just one more collider bro I swear just this one and we’ll fix the standard model bro just one more I swear
Just get it over with and start building an equatorial particle collider already.
Unironical support
Put one of them magnet floating trains on top please.
The equator express.
A gaggle of particle physicists standing in a circle chanting “RING! WORLD! RING! WORLD!”
Orbital particle collider or bust
The GEO Particle Collider.
Honest question could this be feasible with a few dozen satellites positioned above the Van Allen Belts to accelerate particles, and just letting the particles raw dog the solar wind and ride around Earth’s gravity well between each acceleration satellite? Cause that would be badass
No, to orbit the earth at an height of let’s say 1000 km you would need a speed of around 7km/s. If you go faster, you don’t follow an circular orbit. Wirh around 11km/s you would be so fast to leave the gravity well of earth. The particles in those colliders are almost moving at the speed of light. To be exact, they move only 3.1m/s slower than the speed of light, so almost 300000km/s. They would fly almost straight and would be barely influenced by the gravity well.
It’ll still be called the Future Circular Collider when it’s shut down after forty years of service. You gotta commit to a scale in the proposal, like the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.
The two first are the same?
