• Question: what do you think is the most complicated thing was to find?

    Asked by 665medh27 to Christopher, Dan, Jen, Mohan, Sarah on 9 Mar 2017.
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      Daniel Fovargue answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      Well, one of the most complex and largest experimental tools in the world is the Large Hadron Collider. This was the first experiment to find the Higgs boson, which is a particle responsible for giving other particles mass. So I would say the Higgs boson has been the most complicated thing to find (so far).

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      Sarah De Vos answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      That would be the theory of everything! The theory that will bring together gravity and quantum physics. Anyone who finds that will be covered in Nobel prizes.

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      Christopher Mirfin answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      The Higgs boson required a massive underground particle supercollider to be built to reach energies high enough to find it

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      Mohan K answered on 10 Mar 2017:

      At any moment in history there will be that a single standout discovery or invention that really shines as a huge achievement at that time.

      Currently the LHC is the single most complex experiment to probe the limits of particle theory but think how the invention of gunpowder has changed the world, or the telescope revolutionised astronomy, or mathematical theory changed science and everything we do, or the invention of written language.

      None of these things could happen overnight and many of their components are completely useless until they were put together!

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