Putting your hand in the Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is slinging 300 trillion protons at 99.9999991% of the speed of light. It could answer momentous scientific mysteries of our universe. But what if you jam your hand into it? Watch scientists struggle to answer.
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2. Cavabardus commented 14 years ago
Made a visit, there, years ago.
If you have the occasion, do it too : people there are really as clear in their explanations than these guys in the video.
And my favourite symbol is Psi.
Or alpha.
If you have the occasion, do it too : people there are really as clear in their explanations than these guys in the video.
And my favourite symbol is Psi.
Or alpha.
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3. 13wallace13 commented 14 years ago
My favourite symbol is the Bat symbol
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7. WhiteFurry commented 14 years ago
hello??? check it out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
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9. Highmeadow commented 14 years ago
#7 - Interesting... thanks for the link.
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11. Pizzathehutt26 commented 14 years ago
That sounds like maybe you shouldn't put your hand in it after reading post no #7's link.
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14. prankphonecall commented 14 years ago
Sounds like a mission for mythbusters!
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15. Motanum commented 14 years ago
#8 http://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols?feature=chclk
Thats their youtube channel! Very interesting stuff!
Thats their youtube channel! Very interesting stuff!
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17. makbeth commented 14 years ago
I like the way they openly laugh at a few of the questions
This is what happens when a creative mind and a scientific mind meet. The creative asks for answers to impossible curcumstances, and the scientist instead of answering explains why there is no answer.
You would be better off asking Michael Bay, less informative perhaps, but you would probably get the crazy hypohetical answer you seek.
He may not have a clue, but he can entertain
This is what happens when a creative mind and a scientific mind meet. The creative asks for answers to impossible curcumstances, and the scientist instead of answering explains why there is no answer.
You would be better off asking Michael Bay, less informative perhaps, but you would probably get the crazy hypohetical answer you seek.
He may not have a clue, but he can entertain
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19. Lokien commented 14 years ago
Well first of all your hand cannot physically be there because the whole place is a vaccum so that the protons dont collide into air particles while being accelereated. Your hand would explode.
Assuming it was, 300 trillion protons have a mass of 0.00000000000000050107863 kg and going at 99.9999991% of the speed of light theyd have a kinetic energy of 0.0022549 J. I think. Thats not alot of energy, and they probably wouldnt penetrate the sweat on ur palm.
This is assuming no irradtiation effects ofcourse (which will happen when protons start pushing stuff out of nuclei)
Assuming it was, 300 trillion protons have a mass of 0.00000000000000050107863 kg and going at 99.9999991% of the speed of light theyd have a kinetic energy of 0.0022549 J. I think. Thats not alot of energy, and they probably wouldnt penetrate the sweat on ur palm.
This is assuming no irradtiation effects ofcourse (which will happen when protons start pushing stuff out of nuclei)
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20. lockandload commented 14 years ago
interesting stuff
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27. makbeth commented 13 years ago
#21 and #25, its not that the "smart" guys dont have an answer, its that the stupid guys are talking nonsense.
Its like asking what would happen if the planet swiched places with the sun, or what would happen if time spontaneously started going backwards.
The only answer to questions like these are that we would have to throw out every physics book ever written because they have all just been proven wrong.
All they can do is tell you what current theory would be most applicable to your wildly inconsistant scenario.
Its like asking what would happen if the planet swiched places with the sun, or what would happen if time spontaneously started going backwards.
The only answer to questions like these are that we would have to throw out every physics book ever written because they have all just been proven wrong.
All they can do is tell you what current theory would be most applicable to your wildly inconsistant scenario.
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