AMA | October 2024

11081.385 - 11104.724 Sean Carroll

And then it's not going to help that you have a lot of energy in those very tiny fraction of collisions because the kinds of discoveries that are made at a proton-proton collider are not like, oh, here's an event that must be a new particle. you make discoveries by having many, many, many events, or at least enough of them that you can see them above the background noise, right?