RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
June 2, 2015 at 9:40 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2015 at 9:42 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 2, 2015 at 5:43 pm)Alex K Wrote:(June 2, 2015 at 5:38 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Isn't it an irony that we needed to create the biggest machine in the world to find the smallest particle in the world.
All elementary particles have by definition no known spatial extent at all
Perhaps not by definition, but by an assumption convenient to theoretical analysis, which remains convenient because it has not yet been contradicted by results of the highest resolution measurement we have yet been able to make I think?