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Comment by genman

2 years ago

Could we create a vacuum tube and accelerate macroscopic objects in this tube close to the speed of light?

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meindnoch  2 years ago

Our best effort so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

pixl97  2 years ago

Note how big large particle accelerators are, such as the LHC, and that only gets a proton up to 99.9999991% c.

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