CERN’s Giant Particle Collider: Why Are Scientists Smashing Particles Together?
You may have recently seen posts saying: “CERN has shut down the world’s largest particle collider until 2030.” Some posts make it sound mysterious…or even alarming. Others mention that the upgraded machine could produce hundreds of millions of Higgs bosons. But what does any of this actually mean? If words like particle accelerator, proton, and […]