Why a physicist wants to build a particle collider on the moon

Jun 9, 2020
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"But the moon has a vacuum 10 times better than anything physicists have manufactured in their experiments. And it does it naturally, without any effort at all. "

That ends the day the first rockets land. Woosh, woosh, woosh. You'll need a gigawatt electrical...with no reactor water cooling towers. Calculate solar panel area and solar cell lifetimes (no convective cooling) under full solar vacuum UV irradiation, solar flare proton madness, and cosmic ray higgledy pigleddyness absent a shielding magnetosphere and an overhead atmospheric mass/area equal to a yard of lead transversal. Now, double it - for half the moon is in rotating darkness. You will need two on opposite sides, plus transmission lines.

"ACK! THBBFT!"