Why proton collisions behave nothing like a car crash
In short: In this lecture from The Royal Institution, physicist James Beacham explains why subatomic collisions defy our everyday intuition, revealing the strange, transformative nature of the quantum world.
Unlike macroscopic accidents, proton collisions in particle accelerators follow the rules of quantum mechanics. Rather than simple impacts, particles can merge into a single entity before exploding into an entirely different set of particles.
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