Re:CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade...
by Retric on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @10:22AM
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What I find mind blowing is there at energy levels where making these mater mater vs mater energy collisions is practicably meaningless. At 7Tev a collision between 2 protons has enough energy to create over 3,500 proton anti-proton pairs. And honestly anything that makes antimatter collisions seem like small potatoes is just insane.
It's even a sub-nuclear soup. It's not obvious until you think to it, but an atom is just enormous when you're talking at nuclear scale: a typical nucleus in its atom is like a tennis ball in a stadium! http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/research/MinChall-en.htm...