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What’s The Universe’s Strongest Particle Accelerator?

Season 10 Episode 11 | 12m 51s

Cern's Large Hadron Collider routinely collides particles at energies equivalent to a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, but a particle with the energy of an LHC collision hits every square kilometer of the Earth every single second. And we only relatively recently figured out where these cosmic rays are coming from.

Aired: 05/29/24
Life on mars could result in humanity’s destruction via Fermi Paradox.
Is there evidence for the existence of an enormous number of other universes?
How to build a particle collider the size of the solar system.
One of the most important reasons we go to space is to know our own planet better.
Can something that exists be bad science?
It may be that our very DNA inherited its twist from the underlying handedness of reality.
Did God have any choice in creating the world? So asked Albert Einstein
What if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails?
The biggest news in cosmology in recent years is that dark energy may be fading away.
Does this also explain why there are no aliens?