10-September-2008, 05:48 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: the Netherlands
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Originally Posted by Pippin
OOh new Fodder from the charming lads at CERN who don't know when to keep quiet!
James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN.
Gillies told the AP that the most dangerous thing that could happen would be if a beam at full power were to go out of control, and that would only damage the accelerator itself and burrow into the rock around the tunnel.
"burrow into the rock around the tunnel"!! that's priceless.
A: It won't! At the temperatures we generate in the collisions at LHC, even protons and neutrons don't survive, never mind atoms and molecules. (BC)
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Well, Pippin, why don't you explain what will happen if the proton stream hits rock? Just saying it won't and saying that stuff is hot just doesn't seem to cut it...
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