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The Large Hadron Collider: The Start of a New Era or the End of the World?

Burgess, C. (2011). The Large Hadron Collider: The Start of a New Era or the End of the World?. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/11070030

Cliff Burgess McMaster University

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The Large Hadron Collider was recently switched on, then broke and was switched on again. It has started producing collisions that probe Nature on the smallest distances yet reached. What broke when it was switched on? How does one detect what comes out of these collisions, and what can the result tell us about how Nature works on these scales? This talk briefly describes what we think we know, why it may be wrong, and whether (in either case) it will destroy the world.