The LHC is multiple things
a set of theoretical results describing what might happen under what physical circumstances
an application of said theory to a certain realizable sub-set of technological reality and the prediction of what happens then
an engineering effort to build a complex experimental apparatus
(and also a social process driving the people to do all this)
The LHC is multiple things
a set of theoretical results describing what might happen under what physical circumstances
an application of said theory to a certain realizable sub-set of technological reality and the prediction of what happens then
an engineering effort to build a complex experimental apparatus
(and also a social process driving the people to do all this)