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Old 21-August-2008, 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Michael Noonan View Post
Within a year this particle accelerator will be five to seven times more powerful than anything ever built on earth.
So; any disaster will be 5 to 7 times worse than any other particle accelerator disaster. Even if the effects are squared, the dangers will be 50 times worse.
So; what would that be? What is PA equivalent of critical mass? I'm sure the scientists know this. Even a fission bomb mass, energy and consumption was predictable and calculable within some margin.

I'm not sure if that way of thinking is scientifically sound, but it gives me a comfort.
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