thomasantony
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I better go get my crowbar.
First beam in the LHC - accelerating science: The first beam was switched on, it went around...and nothing much happened! :huh: The actual collisions won't take place for a while yet.
Indian girl commits suicide over 'Big Bang' fear
In India, fears about the experiment spread rapidly through the media
Sadly, the stupid sensationalists are now party to a young girl's death:
so if this creates mini black holes what will happen to us ? I read some wear that they would be to small to eat matter
EDIT1: what will the power of the collideing protons be ? 14 TeV ?
Each of these protons flying around the LHC will have 7 TeV. Now, to most of you won't don't study Physics, that doesn't mean much, so I'll trow in something you can understand: You know those big nuclear power plants?
Each reaction in the core produces about 200 MeV.
That is 35 000 times less energy then the super-fast protons in the LHC will have.
2.26 kW ? thats low it looks like we are not getting a new power source from LHC collisions
So in Layman's terms,Also, the LHC homepage has a really good explanation of the scale of one TeV.
One TeV is the kinetic energy of a mosquito.
We'll be throwing 14 mosquitos at each other at near the speed of light? Correct?
No.
We'll just be throwing 14 mosquitos at each other. The collision effects comes from the concentration of the energy on just two protons.
I see.
So then why are people making up this doomsday crap? Attention?