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Originally Posted by KappaMikey
How do we know that LHC will not be detecting a "bad particle" we are quite unaware off?
I am reading all of the posts here, but to me, it still appears that many users are ignoring the fact that none of these experiments have been observed as of yet. Its mostly simulation that physicists are justifying their safety concerns from. I don't think this is a safe way to confirm that everything is good to go.
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No. These events are observed all the time. In
Post #16 of this thread, I linked to webpages from several research groups that study high-energy cosmic ray events.
As I stated in that post, the problem with using cosmic rays as your source is you don't know when they will arrive, from what direction, and with what energy. I suspect it is much easier to do this research having a source you can turn on and off.
As I already stated, events with many times the energy of anything that will be done at the LHC have been observed in our atmosphere.