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Disclaimer: there is a wall of text. Some of it might be rushed as I tried to make it less waffly. It's a lot, apologies beforehand, but I would really appreciate some insights especially from those from US (I'm from UK). Here is my situation: on one hand, I have been accepted to do natural...

Hi guys, Firstly apologies for the lazy post if hordes of people have asked a similar question before - this thread is 43 pages and I cba to read it all, sorry... basically physics is my first love, but I want to earn money; would I make a bad engineer? I could lose sleep happily doing...

What does compactification actually do? I googled it but Wikipedia is very bad at explaining things simply. I gather it's something to do with ignoring higher dimension? And what energies would this reduce the collision energy needed to study quantum gravity? And referring to the last part of...

In other words, by having better precision in measurements, fewer collisions are needed to obtain trends, because there is less uncertainty - so the chance of finding rarer particles is higher? You mentioned earlier that detectors worked in layers; is there any way to improve the precision i.e...

Thank you for your help so far, the part describing detectors made a lot of sense to me (a rare thing). I read about the standard model on the CERN website but the last paragraph seems a bit vague. Here it is: "although the Standard Model accurately describes the phenomena within its domain, it...

Then... what is the definition that I should formally identify it with? So if you want to increase machine precision you can iron out the flaws? I think I read somewhere that in some cases using quantum circuitry can improve the precision? For purposes of being succinct, I'd like to edit the...

I did have a slight idea that they were separate, since a lot of the websites related accelerators to radiography and CRT. But I didn't know that the majority accelerators are not particle colliders - that's probably why my searches are not returning useful results. I see so in my answer...

Oh okay, thanks. So rather than specifically in the context of particle accelerators, what the question concentrates on is imaging of the smallest parts of atoms in a broad spectrum of ways - different methods that allow us to 'see' the effects of things like quarks? This sounds a lot more...

The detectors and the particle physics behind the detectors. But I am confused resolution and its use in particle physics analysis, despite doing some searches on websites explaining energy resolution (mostly in a medical context) It's for answering the first question here ...

So I'm doing some research for a physics essay on particle accelerators and I don't want to go into too much mathematical detail (as I haven't studied statistics or higher level Physics at school yet), but I have googled a lot of things and nothing seems to come up for methods scientists are...