That 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

That 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.