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Old 07-September-2008, 09:05 AM
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And keep in mind they are purposely trying to create a particle with a higher mass, density and energy level of any known existing particle in the universe
Is that your own claim, or did you find it somewhere? In fact, they are trying to produce particles that occur all over the universe, but doing it where they have hardware that can study them.

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and then compare that particle to a cosmic ray(single electron with insignificant proportional atomic mass).
Eh, no. Only about one percent of cosmic rays are electrons, and the high energy particles we call "cosmic rays" regularly impact other particles, as they will be doing in the LHC.

That's the point, they aren't doing anything that isn't already happening in nature.
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