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LHC Hits an Energy of 3.5TeV

Posted by kdawson on from the do-not-look-directly-into-beam-with-your-remaining-eye dept.

Inovaovao writes "As announced on Twitter by the CMS experiment, the LHC has finally accelerated both beams to 3.5 TeV for the first time. It thus broke the previous energy record of 1.18 TeV it had set last fall, about a month since operations started again this year. It'll be a while yet before we see stable beams and collisions at 3.5 TeV. You won't get much of a clue to the timetable by reading the General Manager's pompous announcements. If you want to follow what's going on, look at the Status Ops."

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  1. Re:Call me when it gets to 13.13131313131313TEV by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This is why I contend that no one ever dies (at least in their eyes). Ever have those dreams where you are killed? Seem very real? Then bam!! you wake up and it was just a fleeting memory while the memories of your current life start flooding in. Then up and into the shower.

    You died on another time line and your loved ones mourned.

  2. If both beams are 3.5 TeV by Low+Ranked+Craig · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does that make the collision 7 TeV? Serious question - I'm not sure I completely understand the physics. OK. I almost completely don't understand them. I have read that the LHC produced collisions of 14TeV, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronvolt and that the most energetic cosmic rays are 10^8 TeV. If all that it true, doesn't it completely and totally kill the whole "LHC will destroy the world" bullshit?

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    1. Re:If both beams are 3.5 TeV by amRadioHed · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I highly doubt you'd feel an impact with a single particle regardless of it's momentum. It would just blow right through you like an X-Ray or gamma ray without you knowing, but potentially damaging some DNA on its way.

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  3. Re:A related story by Hurricane78 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The whole text is based on the arrogant, ignorant and retarded Fermi “paradox”.
    It is arrogant and ignorant because it states that we don’t see any aliens, so there must be no aliens, so where is everybody?? Which is just as retarded as a blind man going “i don’t see humans, so there must be no humans, so where is everybody??”
    Or your doc going “There is no cure to this disease.”. When in reality he should say “I don’t know a cure to this disease.”.
    The arrogance and ignorance of making this type of statement, boggles the mind.

    It is a shame that educated people fall for such a Glenn-Beck-worthy “logic”.

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