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Colliders As Portals To The Big Bang
- Particle accelerators recreate early-universe conditions by infusing energy to produce short-lived particles.
- They act as laboratory portals to the Big Bang rather than destructive 'smashers'.
Buoyancy Explains Floating Objects
- Clouds and balloons float because of buoyant forces from the surrounding fluid, not because gravity is absent.
- Objects lighter than their medium rise even though gravity still acts on them.
The Electron's Size Is Unknown
- 'Particle' can be a placeholder for things whose size we cannot measure, notably the electron.
- We measure electron charge and mass but have never resolved its physical size; it may be pointlike.