Build that accelerator!
Few exhortations ignite such wearisome passion as those to “build that wall” from the man otherwise reliable sources inform us is US President. Now physicist David G. Hitlin floats an alternative on the arXiv physics preprint server. It could, he suggests, “provide the desired deterrence capability without reallocation of Defense Department funds, the use of alligators, the separation of children and parents, or the need to shoot anyone in the leg”.
Hitlin notes the Mexico-US border has some very long, very straight bits. Particle physicists have a yen for very long, very straight things, in the…
