Large Hadron Collider

wez130 said:
One thing that did strike me as gobsmacking is the fact that when the tiny atoms strike in a strand a fraction of the diameter of a human hair, the forces created will be the equivelent of a aircraft carrier travelling at 30 knots, that's a hell of a lot of force lol.
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Are you referring to the force produced by the electromagnets being exerted on the protons or did you mean the energy/momentum of the protons or the sum during the collision?

Interestingly when you think about the energies released during the collision they don't seem very large in real world terms. It's only when you think that this is existing in such a tiny space that it becomes huge:

CERN webpage said:
Speculations about microscopic black holes at the LHC refer to particles produced in the collisions of pairs of protons, each of which has an energy comparable to that of a mosquito in flight. Astronomical black holes are much heavier than anything that could be produced at the LHC.
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Raist said:
When they fire this thing up, and a black hole can only propagate at the speed of light, how long will it take to reach the U.S.? ;)
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A black hole can't propagate at the Speed of Light as it is not a measure of time and it can't travel at the speed of light as a black hole has mass.

A pedant and a geek, yay me!
 
anybody on ntl theres a documentary about it on catch up tv bb4 i think, narrated by one of the scientists on the project (havnt read all threads may have been posted b4)

edit: catch up tv/ all a-z b page 4 big bang machine
 
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