These Are The Machines Solving The Biggest Mysteries In Physics

Despite the stereotype of a lone, wild-haired Einstein working tirelessly at a chalkboard, today’s biggest discoveries in physics come from huge collaborations of scientists working on enormous apparatuses that can cost billions of dollars, often located in the most extreme places on Earth. After all, it’s just the fabric universe they’re trying to understand.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

These Are The Machines Solving The Biggest Mysteries In Physics

Despite the stereotype of a lone, wild-haired Einstein working tirelessly at a chalkboard, today’s biggest discoveries in physics come from huge collaborations of scientists working on enormous apparatuses that can cost billions of dollars, often located in the most extreme places on Earth. After all, it’s just the fabric universe they’re trying to understand.

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• The Large Hadron Collider
• The XENON1T Experiment
• The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
• Super-Kamiokande
• IceCube
• Muon g-2
• Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
• LIGO
• Event Horizon Telescope

Great collection! The only one I’ve never heard of is “Muon g-2”.

Everyone should learn about every one of these pieces of experimental equipment.

The odd one out, in a sense, is the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, because it’s really quite small, weighing only 6 tons. But it does have the advantage of living out in space, bolted onto the side of the International Space Station.

I am reminded of one of Laurie Anderson’s albums: “Big Science”.

Michael V said:

I am reminded of one of Laurie Anderson’s albums: “Big Science”.

:)

It was just this weekend gone that I told my daughters to listen to “O Superman” as I hadn’t played it for them before.

sibeen said:

Michael V said:

I am reminded of one of Laurie Anderson’s albums: “Big Science”.

:)

It was just this weekend gone that I told my daughters to listen to “O Superman” as I hadn’t played it for them before.

Ha!