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Re:CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade... by windsurfer on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @11:20AM (#4381324)
I believe the limit is energy density. As the mass of the particle gets high enough (e=mc^2), its gravity gets stronger until it becomes a black hole and then explodes in a puff of Hawking radiation.
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Re:CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade... by ars on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @03:38PM (#4382713)
It's more complicated than that. The force of gravity is counteracted by the pressure caused by the temperature, and it would not become a black hole.
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Re:CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade... by jessriedel on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @11:54AM (#4381527)
FYI, the temps accessible at the LHC are no where near high enough that this is a consideration.
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