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The Final Barrier to (Nearly) Infinite Energy
Why are billions suddenly being pumped into fusion startups?
What’s The Universe’s Strongest Particle Accelerator?
PBS Space Time explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astrophysics, the possibilities of sci-fi, and anything else you can think of beyond Planet Earth. Host Matt O'Dowd breaks down both the basic and incredibly complex sides of space and time.
What’s The Universe’s Strongest Particle Accelerator?
Season 10 Episode 11 | 12m 51s | CC
Cern's Large Hadron Collider routinely collides particles at energies equivalent to a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, but a particle with the energy of an LHC collision hits every square kilometer of the Earth every single second. And we only relatively recently figured out where these cosmic rays are coming from.
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