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Old 08-September-2008, 06:23 AM
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How about showing me where on our planet heat sources equal to 100,000x the interior of the sun occur?
You already quoted from this paper yourself, but okay. From this paper:

http://lsag.web.cern.ch/lsag/LSAG-Report.pdf

From section 2 - The LHC compared with Cosmic-Ray Collisions

"The area of the Earth's surface is about 5x1018 square centimeters, and the age of the Earth is about 4.5 billion years. Therefore, over 3x1022 cosmic rays of 1017ev or more, equal or greater than the LHC energy, have struck the Earth's surface since its Formation."

This point has been made many times. The LHC energies do already occur in nature, on the Earth.
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