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It's not often that the child in me goes "that's awesome!", but this is one of those times.
by dmos62 7y ago
It's not often that the child in me goes "that's awesome!", but this is one of those times.
- SamBam 7y agoAssuming you're talking about the temperature, it's always been a source of human pride to me that the hottest place in the entire universe, as far as we are aware, has been created at the LHC on Earth. Barring other species as intelligent as ours elsewhere (which is of course possible, but unknown), the very hottest thing in the entire unimaginably-large universe full of exotic stars and black holes and supernovae, was created by a tiny group of apes on a minuscule planet orbiting a smallish, boring star on the unfashionable side of a galaxy.
- miscPerson 7y agoThat strikes me as... a strange claim, considering how fast the OMG particle whizzed by. Per Wiki: > The energy of this particle is some 40 million times that of the highest energy protons that have been produced in any terrestrial particle accelerator. Presumably wherever these extreme energy protons are coming from is rather warm. Is there some reason to think the LHC has higher temperature? Not a physicist; could be something like LHC having larger bunch sizes... but since we don’t know what causes these particles, it seems like we don’t really know the source temperature.