LHC smashes beam collision record

"Protons are complicated particles, they've got quarks, [and other small particles], and colliding them is like colliding two garbage cans and watching carrots come out," he told BBC News.

Best quote ever.

Is it that the larger the track the more collisions that you get?

Sort of, it's mora about the quantity of particles they fire around the track. That, and that the track is of a higher energy level. (More magnets accelerating things around the longer track). Plus they are putting more particles into the 'clumps' that collide. That has a greater chance of things hitting as well.

6 lane highway, as opposed to an undivided residential street.

Thanks for posting this Caleb. I'd plum forgotten about it. Do you know of the planet got sucked into a black hole?

That's the rub. As you get closer to a black hole, time slows down. So if the LHC went 'divide by zero' then we'd never know it, because time would slow down to almost nothing the closer the black hole event horizon got to us. Much like Wednesday this week, before a 4 day long weekend.

That's the rub. As you get closer to a black hole, time slows down. So if the LHC went 'divide by zero' then we'd never know it, because time would slow down to almost nothing the closer the black hole event horizon got to us. Much like Wednesday this week, before a 4 day long weekend.

Droll, but wrong (I think). Time would slow down for an observer, but for the participant, time would remain unchanged.

That's the rub. As you get closer to a black hole, time slows down. So if the LHC went 'divide by zero' then we'd never know it, because time would slow down to almost nothing the closer the black hole event horizon got to us. Much like Wednesday this week, before a 4 day long weekend.

Droll, but wrong (I think). Time would slow down for an observer, but for the participant, time would remain unchanged.

Correct on both accounts. (huh?)

Time as seen by an outside observer of an object falling into a black hole, it would appear that object stretches and is drawn into a single point, and takes a really long time to cross the event horizon. For the object doing the falling, this never really happens, as time slows so much they are never consumed by the black hole - from their perspective. Time slows down to infinite length from that perspective.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole#Event_horizon

In reality, they are crushed to tiny bits and die, but we only know the mathematical theory.

Reminds me of a lot of Avro's old posts.

You'd think with all them Smart people they'd know enough to keep Records out of what is essentially a Smasher. Fail.