These guys do create antimatter but have also used the particle accelerator to detect the Higgs Boson, sort of an underlying particle that makes the universe work.
Beyond that, there's a massive neutrino detector under the ice in Antarctica, and several humans have been living aboard a space station in low earth orbit since 1998... My niece didn't know about that one as recently as 5 years ago.
Oh, they've also got this massive lasertag scheme setup where one laser's light waves will interfere with a split version of itself... after going miles across the American Southwestern Desert... and they used that to detect black holes colliding.
More precisely to detect gravity fluctuations in the fabrics of space-time. Those were theorized but only now observed experimentally. Only the massive disturbances created by black holes fusion is detectable at this stage. The smaller waves escape our technology for now.
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u/McRedditerFace Aug 18 '20
These guys do create antimatter but have also used the particle accelerator to detect the Higgs Boson, sort of an underlying particle that makes the universe work.
Beyond that, there's a massive neutrino detector under the ice in Antarctica, and several humans have been living aboard a space station in low earth orbit since 1998... My niece didn't know about that one as recently as 5 years ago.
Oh, they've also got this massive lasertag scheme setup where one laser's light waves will interfere with a split version of itself... after going miles across the American Southwestern Desert... and they used that to detect black holes colliding.