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the large hadron collidor particle accelerator

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Well you've either very definitely misheard, mis remembered or misunderstood.

Scientists already know that protons are made up of smaller particles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subatomic_particle

Scientists already know how to find where a proton is because it lives in the nucleus of the atom. The uncertainty most definitely is to do with the position of the electron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

This is not that easy to understand but its best I can find. What you are trying to do, I suspect, is apply the same laws to the quantum world as the non-quantum world. If you manage, Id make a big hullaballoo because you'll have found the unified theory scientists are looking for but dont even know if it exists :P

I'm doing naff all but repeating what a doctor of quantum physics said in the programme I saw last night ("how long is a piece of string").

They fired a single proton thru a card with two slim slots, via which they said it showed that the proton existed in more than one place at once, because it could be shown to go thru both slits in the card.

It's possible that I misheard or misunderstood (tho I don't think I did), but I'm defo not trying to put any interpretation on what I saw.

Paulevs - you saw it too. Have I got it wrong?

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I'm doing naff all but repeating what a doctor of quantum physics said in the programme I saw last night ("how long is a piece of string").

They fired a single proton thru a card with two slim slots, via which they said it showed that the proton existed in more than one place at once, because it could be shown to go thru both slits in the card.

It's possible that I misheard or misunderstood (tho I don't think I did), but I'm defo not trying to put any interpretation on what I saw.

Paulevs - you saw it too. Have I got it wrong?

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I'm doing naff all but repeating what a doctor of quantum physics said in the programme I saw last night ("how long is a piece of string").

They fired a single proton thru a card with two slim slots, via which they said it showed that the proton existed in more than one place at once, because it could be shown to go thru both slits in the card.

It's possible that I misheard or misunderstood (tho I don't think I did), but I'm defo not trying to put any interpretation on what I saw.

Paulevs - you saw it too. Have I got it wrong?

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Look it's very simple...

The universe consists of a wide variety of things which are made of smaller things. Those smaller things comprise of things which are even smaller. The things which are even smaller are in turn made of things even smaller than that. Apparently the things made up of things even smaller than that are also made of things even smaller still than the even smaller than that things.

The LHC is gong to smash even smaller than that things together to see if the even smaller things still actually exist. However I would imagine that what they will find is f**king annoying things which seem to be smaller than anything small they have already found.

OK? Got it now?

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Look it's very simple...

The universe consists of a wide variety of things which are made of smaller things. Those smaller things comprise of things which are even smaller. The things which are even smaller are in turn made of things even smaller than that. Apparently the things made up of things even smaller than that are also made of things even smaller still than the even smaller than that things.

The LHC is gong to smash even smaller than that things together to see if the even smaller things still actually exist. However I would imagine that what they will find is f**king annoying things which seem to be smaller than anything small they have already found.

OK? Got it now?

Yup. I suspect you're right.

And there goes all of quantum physics out of the window.

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Look it's very simple...

The universe consists of a wide variety of things which are made of smaller things. Those smaller things comprise of things which are even smaller. The things which are even smaller are in turn made of things even smaller than that. Apparently the things made up of things even smaller than that are also made of things even smaller still than the even smaller than that things.

The LHC is gong to smash even smaller than that things together to see if the even smaller things still actually exist. However I would imagine that what they will find is f**king annoying things which seem to be smaller than anything small they have already found.

OK? Got it now?

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