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Originally Posted by a system
So the collisions in our atmosphere reach 100,000 times greater in temperature than the sun? And reach the same temperature as in the LHC?
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Sure, easily. Presumably they're referring to the roughly 15,000,000 K temperature at the core of the sun. Here's a page on how temperature is measured in accelerators:
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/...Gillyard.shtml
Many cosmic rays are much higher energy than here or in the LHC, so . . .