Re: CERN concern

From: "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:22:22 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:01:26 EDT, conesetter <conesetter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in <12124044.1222938116442.JavaMail.jakarta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

But if CERN can

produce non-decaying micro black holes, then
cosmic ray events should produce some too.

This analogy is defective. If I understand it correctly the LHC will

bang millions of particles together at once. So comparing it with what a
cosmic ray does is like comparing an atom bomb with a single uranium atom.

Idiot. Any given proton will collide with at most one other
proton. We expect 10-20 collisions each time the beams cross. Each
collision is totally independent of any other collision. There is no
additive effect.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
"In theory, the probability that the LHC will produce pink elephants
is not zero." -- Joe Lykken.

.

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