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Originally Posted by Quintopotere
Uhmmm... I'm quite sure that Big Bang was not made using a particle accelerator...
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Or was it?
*trips balls at possibility of entirely universe existing inside an experimental particle collision*
The operative word in russ' post would be "simulate", by the way.
As for 1930s particle accelerators vs. 2000s particle impactors, the difference is even more huge than any metaphor you can come up with, they're studying different particles (in this case, hadrons, as opposed to H+ ions or protons as with earlier experiments), doing different things with them and measuring different outputs. They didn't decide to make the LHC 27km in circumference instead of 9 inches (size of first accelerator) just for fun.