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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That is worth about one Space Launch System, which could throw 27 tonnes all the way to lunar orbit. Learn more: www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/space-…

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In terms of 2020 dollars, that is worth roughly two Apollo programs. Just one was enough to go from a first crewed flight to a lunar landing in eight years. Learn more: www.nasa.gov/the-apollo-program

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

$58M? That's worth about one LZ experiment, which could put seven tonnes of liquid xenon a mile underground and search for dark matter candidates nothing else can reach. Learn more: lz.lbl.gov

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

That is roughly one FCC-ee, which could measure the W and Z bosons precisely enough to expose cracks in the Standard Model. Learn more: home.cern/science/accelerators/futu…

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

That is ten James Webb Space Telescopes. A single one can image the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang. Learn more: science.nasa.gov/mission/webb

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

That is worth 30 National Ignition Facilities. Just one of them can focus 192 laser beams onto a target the size of a peppercorn. Learn more: lasers.llnl.gov

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

That is enough to build two Pierre Auger Observatories. A single one covers 3,000 km² of Argentina with cosmic-ray detectors. Learn more: www.auger.org

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

That is about one KM3NeT, enough to anchor detector lines 3 km down on the sea floor. Learn more: www.km3net.org

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

That buys roughly 5 SuperCDMS experiments. Just one can cool crystal detectors to within a whisker of absolute zero in the hunt for dark matter. Learn more: supercdms.slac.stanford.edu

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

That is about one LZ experiment, which is enough to run a detector so quiet it must sit a mile underground. Learn more: lz.lbl.gov

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

That is roughly 20 Large Hadron Colliders. Just one can recreate the conditions of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Learn more: home.cern/science/accelerators/larg…

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

That is roughly the cost of a Hubble Space Telescope, which was enough to prove supermassive black holes sit at the centres of galaxies. Learn more: science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

That is 11 Muon Colliders. A single one could probe for new physics far beyond the LHC's reach. Learn more: muoncollider.web.cern.ch

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

That is equivalent to two Pierre Auger Observatories. A single one could find out where ultra-high-energy cosmic rays come from. Learn more: www.auger.org

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

That is roughly nine Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instruments. A single DESI can take the spectra of tens of millions of galaxies. Learn more: www.desi.lbl.gov

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Measured In Muons @measuredinmuons.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

That is the cost of 10 CMS detectors. It only took one of them to co-discover the Higgs boson. Learn more: cms.cern

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