It is just a dumb intuition of mine that is like “very high speed → perfectly circular, something something constant acceleration”.
I googled that link retroactively to find an authoritative source, I originally doubted my intuition after seeing this image in CERN’s April Fools post.
So like the reason *I’d* put probability on a perfect circle is “Well, why make it more complicated than just constant inward acceleration?”, and then the crux given my lack of knowledge is “What’s the chance they need to do something more complicated” which is going to be “pretty high”.
It is just a dumb intuition of mine that is like “very high speed → perfectly circular, something something constant acceleration”.
I googled that link retroactively to find an authoritative source, I originally doubted my intuition after seeing this image in CERN’s April Fools post.
See also most overlays of LHC on a real map showing a seemingly perfect circle: https://kagi.com/images?q=Large+Hadron+Collider+map&r=no_region&sh=nkQ1eb5Nke3eLOt4bDkOQw
So like the reason *I’d* put probability on a perfect circle is “Well, why make it more complicated than just constant inward acceleration?”, and then the crux given my lack of knowledge is “What’s the chance they need to do something more complicated” which is going to be “pretty high”.