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We need a larger one. Yes, for the last time. Pleeeeeeeeeease! (discuss.tchncs.de)
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[–] [email protected] 93 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Just get it over with and start building an equatorial particle collider already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Skip that. Put it in orbit and make it double as a solar collector array and beam the extra energy back down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honest question could this be feasible with a few dozen satellites positioned above the Van Allen Belts to accelerate particles, and just letting the particles raw dog the solar wind and ride around Earth's gravity well between each acceleration satellite? Cause that would be badass

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, to orbit the earth at an height of let's say 1000 km you would need a speed of around 7km/s. If you go faster, you don't follow an circular orbit. Wirh around 11km/s you would be so fast to leave the gravity well of earth. The particles in those colliders are almost moving at the speed of light. To be exact, they move only 3.1m/s slower than the speed of light, so almost 300000km/s. They would fly almost straight and would be barely influenced by the gravity well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Ok, so a huge circular tube it is then

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A gaggle of particle physicists standing in a circle chanting "RING! WORLD! RING! WORLD!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Surely the collective noun for a group of particle physicists has to be A Theory.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Orbital particle collider or bust

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The GEO Particle Collider.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

That's what the asteroid belt is for!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

... around the sun.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Free power as well. I see no downside to this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Capitalism. Privatization of Sun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Accidentally accelerates the whole mass of the sun in a fragile ring of superheated plasma at ridiculous speeds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Just put it in orbit! Let's commit and put a ring on this planet!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Unironical support

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Put one of them magnet floating trains on top please.

The equator express.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

How about refular trains?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can we get a collider between moon an earth? I know, a lot of particles out there, but if we isolate it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

We currently can't block enough radiation to make space travel safe for humans in long term situations unless we are blessed with the calmest of space weather based on some recent news about the long term effects on the kidneys in the conditions of space travel (source, I believe the research still needs to be corroborated https://phys.org/news/2024-06-astronauts-kidneys-survive-roundtrip-mars.pdf )

We're still not at the Star Trek radiation screen level, unfortunately. So I'm not confident we can isolate this well enough. Earths magnetic field and atmosphere do a lot of work for us, and we still cannot replicate their function well enough to make it safe for humans long term. And this is a project that was put underground because it was more sensitive than humans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I think we could easily shield this, it would just be stupendously expensive to bring all that lead up there