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Originally Posted by Pippin
... I just emailed CERN with my question in their "ask and expert forum".
Fazor someone will yell at me even if I get this right. My understanding is that the LHC collisions will release(create) more energy than the majority of cosmic ray collisions, however there are still many cosmic ray collisions that occur of much greater magnitude.
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Not even funny as a joke. That kind of language is frowned upon around here.
I don't know about a majority, I don't know enough about the distribution of cosmic ray events as a function of energy. But what does it matter? There have been many events of higher energy, even among the few we have observed. Multiple that by the surface of the Earth where we are not looking, and 4 billion years (the age of the Earth) and even if only 0.1% of all cosmic rays were higher energy than the LHC, there have been billions and billions of such events.