Particle beams have now travelled in both directions, inside parallel pipes, at a whisker below the speed of light.
Actual collisions will not begin for at least another month, but they will take place with nearly double the energy the LHC reached during its first run.
Scientists hope to glimpse a "new physics" beyond the Standard Model.
Well, we are a gun forum, and right now, there is no bigger gun with higher terminal ballistics than the LHC, albeit there's no smaller caliber. I wonder what it would take, if we anticipated an attach by aliens from space, to be able to steer its beam up.
...the actual force from the LHC strongest collision is about the same as a mosquito landing on your arm
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.
Yeah, that "mosquito" is landing REALLY REALLY fast!
(J/K I know what you mean.)
From CERN:
The safety of the LHC | CERN press office
When my son received radiation on his brain, we had to go to Bloomington to do it. That office is now closed, but at the time they had one of 7 or 8 proton beam radiation machines in the country. They would fire up those particles to 60% of light speed and blast his little brain. They actually did it from two sides and met the two beams in the middle. It worked, but I certainly didn't understand it. The two Dr.'s running the place were absolutely brilliant. Anyhow, the point is, people are purposefully put in the path of particle beams every day.
I worked at that cyclotron for almost 30 years. It's sad that the people in charge of the money weren't nearly as competent as their medical counterparts.
In memory of Schroedinger's cat (RIP) and recent resurrection, they're firing up the LHC again. But with more power. hunh hunh hunh errrr
Large Hadron Collider restarts after two-year rebuild - BBC News
yep that's what they said about the government listening to phones and other electronic devices like smart tv's till the government got exposed listening to phones and electronic devices like smart tv's.
I'm more concerned with the radio waves and contrails they are pumping into the sky and ground. I can't remember what the one in Alaska is called. An they either have or are building a bigger one. They do and have controlled the weather. That's more scary to me than if some scientist blow money on a giant circle thing