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Old 08-September-2008, 07:44 AM
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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?
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 . . .
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