Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics: Simplified

Tools of the Trade – Inside the Particle Accelerators


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How do you find particles smaller than an atom? You smash stuff—really, really fast. In this final episode, we pull back the curtain on the mega-machines that made modern physics possible: particle accelerators.
These are not your average lab tools—we’re talking rings the size of cities, magnets colder than space, and energies that recreate conditions moments after the Big Bang.
From early cathode-ray tubes to the legendary Large Hadron Collider, we explore how accelerators evolved into the world’s most precise (and expensive) microscopes.
We’ll break down how beams are bent, particles are steered, and collisions are caught by detectors more advanced than anything in your phone.
And yes, we’ll explain why smashing protons at near-light speed doesn’t destroy the planet (spoiler: physics is cool, not dangerous). Without these machines, there would be no quarks, no Higgs, no Standard Model.
This is the epic behind-the-scenes story of how we actually explore the invisible universe—and what we might discover next.

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