> create the world's largest circular collider> multi million dollar project> spans two countries> repeats the same experiment thousands of times to slight differences in particle distributions> literally whipping around particles at near the speed of light>the goal is to get 5σ confirmation, as in less than 1 in 3 million chance the slight fluctuation in the particles is just chance> many particles leave the circle like neutrinos> no one ever thought to put a detector in the middle of the damn circle???
>>17003419Sometimes people do start to think to look in the very last place they would expect something to be, like with lost keys and such
>what if, instead of putting the detector where the collisions are, we put the detector where the collisions aren't?by this logic, why not put a detector 100 miles away?
>>17003437That's what Fermilab does with their Neutrino Beam. IDK I would expect something interesting to happen in the middle of a circle with particles moving at relativistic speeds. We know that some photons even have special properties when we polarize them circularly and have special antennas for just that purpose.How much would it cost to buy a part of some Swiss guy's farm and put some basic detectors in a shed.
>>17003419The center is where least stuff happens because any meme particles that escape in the middle of the circle escape outwards in basically random directions. Nothing is going to go inwards.
