RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
September 3, 2015 at 12:08 am
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2015 at 12:19 am by Alex K.)
(I slightly edited above answer since your quote)
Kind of, yes. If you hit it with less energy, you don't see nothing though, you see bound states doing something. The objects of the theory are different particles at that level of coarse grainy observation than one has microscopically. The transition between the two worlds (called the matching of one theory -that of protons, neutrons etc- to the other - that of quarks and gluons-) is very challenging and only partly understood, precisely because the interactions become so strong at that point, and strong interactions means difficult to calculate.
Kind of, yes. If you hit it with less energy, you don't see nothing though, you see bound states doing something. The objects of the theory are different particles at that level of coarse grainy observation than one has microscopically. The transition between the two worlds (called the matching of one theory -that of protons, neutrons etc- to the other - that of quarks and gluons-) is very challenging and only partly understood, precisely because the interactions become so strong at that point, and strong interactions means difficult to calculate.
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