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Re:Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accele... by anonytrary on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:23PM (#19617558)
It should read GeV (giga) correct?
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Re:Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accele... by petschge on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:27PM (#19618119)
Yes. The early seventies is when we so tens to hundres of GeV and even the LHC has only reached 6.5 TeV (per direction), well short of the alternative interpretation of 200 TeV.
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Re:Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accele... by rhn_mk1 on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:45PM (#19617773)
It's hard to tell without referring to external sources. It could be either GeV or TeV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

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Re:Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accele... by eigenloss on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:12PM (#19618003)
BeV would never mean TeV outside of the UK.
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Re:Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accele... by petschge on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:20PM (#19618071)
The long scale where "billion" means 1e12 is not that rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Long_sca...
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Re:Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accele... by ascorbic on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @04:14PM (#19618500)
But hasn't been used in the UK for at least a generation.
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Re:Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accele... by Falcorian on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @05:06PM (#19618923)
Confusing, yes. In this case, it's GeV.
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