Lerios [hy/hym]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • Now i never specialised in particle accelerators and i can only speak for syncrotron type accelerators (like Diamond in the UK) but i took exams about them and i got to tour one so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Generally, they’re a pretty normal thing in particle physics and materials science now, like, they’re places where a bunch of people have relatively dull 9-5 jobs and parts of them are rented out to random companies. Mostly they’re used for medical/drug research and semiconductor stuff now, and to my knowledge they’ve discovered nothing that would excite the general public for years.

    They can’t really be a ‘failed theory’, because they’re SUPER useful for telling us whats in shit and how materials behave, they’re just not the magical world-ending bullshit that the news like to say they are. No one really expected them to be (except the media trying to farm clicks). Making stuff go fast is fun and informative, thats all we need party-parrot-science






  • even discounting how much they must have paid for all that random shit, whenever i see these sorts of videos i wonder who has to clean it up. like, surely its either not this person or they’ve never done this before - with all those balls and slippery shit and broken glass they’ve just created a mega dangerous enviroment to clean