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Old 07-September-2008, 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Lepton View Post
If an essentially micro black hole was formed the gravity it would have is the gravity of the two particles that collided. That would neither grow or last long enough to travel more than 10 meters in any direction.
"When the LHC achieves its design collision rate, it will produce about a billion proton-proton collisions per second in each of the major detectors Atlas and CMS."

Thats from section 2 in their report "The LHC Compared with Cosmic-Ray Collisions"

I'm playing the part of devil's advocate here, but should these multiple collisions occur without the expected immediate decay, you can see where I came up with the multiple car fiery mess in the middle of the street analogy. 2 particles is nothing to worry about, however the mass and energy resultant in 2 billion heavy lead ions accidently mashing together is quite a different matter.
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