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Originally Posted by Pippin
Funny I thought it was CERN's job to describe what would happen.
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No, Pippin. If you find it necessary to be flippant and ridicule the scientists involved, it becomes your burden to show us why they deserve said ridicule.
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I was just having a laugh about it "burrowing" when that really means destroying all atoms and molecules in its path.
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So how did you think the word was intended? That we should imagine a column of marching protons with axes slung over their shoulders? Or perhaps just as 'causing damage to the rock'?
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Originally Posted by Pippin
I do trust them enough to expect a safety cut off switch to trigger, or that any misalignment in of itself shuts down the ion flow.
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To stop what ion flow? I remind you that the packets circle the entire ring thousands of times per second.
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My personal non-scientific expectation would be that at worst it would travel a few centimeters. Even at full strength there aren't that many ions in use in comparison to the atoms of the surrounding rock and comparable density.
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How many protons? How much energy? How much impact can that have on rock?
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So even a significant time before shut off, say the emergency shut off isn't triggered and one of the scientists has to kill it manually, of 5 seconds or so maximum, shouldn't pose any serious danger to the public or planet.
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What happens if there is no emergency shutoff available or if it fails, and the manual shutoff fails too?
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[..] to prevent us learning they could cut a hole through the planet!!!
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Ah. So
that is what you expect. Can you explain how that would work? How long would it take?