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Originally Posted by captain swoop
why would a single beam be any different? the particals would be stopped by the target. two beams colliding is the same as one beam hitting a stationary target.
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Hi
captain,
The reason a single beam collider would be different is because any mBH's produced by a single beam collider would themselves have relativistic velocities, whereas in double beam designs, the equal and opposite beam velocities cancel each other out.
Think of a car smashing into a stationary car at 200 mph. The two cars will fuse together and go skittering off at 100 mph, at least initially. Now imagine two cars both traveling at 100 mph each that get involved in a head on collision. The resultant velocity in this latter case will be zero.
I hope that answers your question.
