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tehnub | 22 days ago

They’re using big things to do experiments. Maybe they discover some new physical effect. How do you know that that effect couldn’t be demonstrated in some smaller scale experiment after it’s understood better?

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T-A|22 days ago

Effective field theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_field_theory

demonstrably works up to the electroweak scale, which requires an LHC-sized machine to probe.

pfdietz|20 days ago

Effective field theory involves things like the BCS theory of superconductivity, which is of course based on small scale experiments.

pfdietz|22 days ago

Can you tell me of an example where that has happened? I can't think of any.