Don't Cross the LHC Stream! (Maybe) 171
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timothy
from the look-at-me-look-at-me dept.
from the look-at-me-look-at-me dept.
jamie points out this piece from always-entertaining Bad Astronomer Phil Plait, who asks this week the simple question "What happens if you put your hand in the beam of the Large Hadron Collider?" The thrill of discovery to me doesn't sound worth the worst-case scenario.
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Did he get any super powers?
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This was where I stopped reading and just read Anatoli Bugorski [wikipedia.org]'s Wikipedia article instead.
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The protons in an accelerator move a hell of a lot closer to the speed of light than they do to the speed of sound (in any imaginable substance).
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No, you won't.
The protons in the back have to accelerate the protons in front of them when they bump, and the proton in front can only get closer to the speed of light.
While it does so, it gets heavier and harder to move, which causes resistance to further speeding up.