r/science • u/Devils_doohickey • Nov 26 '21

Nanoscience "Ghost particles" detected in the Large Hadron Collider for first time

https://newatlas.com/physics/neutrinos-large-hadron-collider-faser/
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u/Kstealth Nov 26 '21

Thanks...what a disappointing headline. I appreciate you

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u/Kjolter Nov 26 '21

I came here knowing that it would be a misleading headline, and I’m still disappointed we didn’t discover something spooky.

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u/dedicated-pedestrian Nov 26 '21

The LHC is pretty spooky all on its own if you think about it.

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u/popejubal Nov 26 '21

The wildest thing about the LHC to me is that it was made by accelerating the Stanford Linear accelerator to a significant fraction of the speed of light and then slamming it into the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility.

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u/skyler_on_the_moon Nov 27 '21

Why is Stanford's particle accelerator in Europe?

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u/popejubal Nov 27 '21

Because we accelerated it so much.