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Originally Posted by Pippin
You're right, I've been banging mosquitos together in my backyard all week. I'm still amazed they spent billions of dollars to perform their experiments all while claiming these experiments have never been performed! Foolish scientists.
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I wasn't sure if you were making a joke, so I'll make a serious response.
Somewhere, much earlier in this thread, someone asked, if cosmic rays are doing these experiments, why does one need the LHC. I posted links to several articles on exactly that - studies of cosmic rays looking for various subatomic particles (I'm too lazy to go search it out).
The problem, as pointed out earlier in the thread, is that these cosmic ray events are too random, and are high up in the atmosphere. Its hard to have a big detector at exactly the right spot to study the event. The LHC ensures that the events happen where you have your detector.