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Originally Posted by Jim
I think you're confused a bit here. They're not trying to create an entirely new particle; they're trying to collect evidence that will prove the existence of the Higgs boson. If it exists, it's been there all along; if it doesn't exist, they're not going to make it.
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Exactly. The advantage of the LHC isn't that it can generate collisions with higher energies than what can be found in nature, but that the collisions take place where we can study them carefully.