Shawn Ryan

Like you want to send things in at higher energy so they get close enough and then you can start to see the structure of the thing.

So imagine like you have like this bag of quarks and you start to see that like the kind of component nature of your –

like protons and things like that.

So it's just, you're colliding and then you're trying to measure what's coming out and you want to like try to infer how your theory of the interactions is consistent with that.

I'm sorry, I mean, so, I mean, it should be jets at some point, these things, I'm sorry.

So like basically you're colliding

say, depending on the collider, you're putting, say, electron, positron, and other colliders, and this is, say, two protons are colliding.

And you're going to have the protons are made up of some quarks, and then they're going to have some interactions, and then they're shooting out other quarks.

But there's other particles in your standard model field theory.

And those interactions will determine, I guess, the rate at which different things are produced.

And so there's a theoretical thing.

You're modeling those very short distance scale interactions.

And then you're trying to infer from the energy deposited or different particle tracks that this thing is actually what happened to then say something about your theory.

That's fun and that's cool.

But the scary thing is just how big, how hard it is to probe those high energy scales.

And you see these huge, I mean, the collider itself is like, these rings are amazingly huge.

Yeah.

I mean, well, they're near a border, but yeah.

Yeah, so very interesting engineering feats for fundamental physics.

And that's cool and something I probably didn't appreciate as much because I went into theory.