Large Hadron Collider Produces "mini Big Bang"

[Wicky_42]

A bit technical for my rather loose grasp of physics, but the LHC did SOMETHING without breaking down, blowing up or costing more money so... yay science.

On the prospective side, creating something that hot must have created a ton of usable energy: couldn't even one millionth of the sun's energy essentially solve any energy crisis we have? Just another piece of evidence proving that energy is really easy to come by, what we really need is a massive, super efficient battery.

It didn't create that energy, it used it, lol. We manufactured a mini-big bang. That's shockingly energy intensive - the LHC is a drain on the power grind, not a major contributor

Wait-- The protonic reaction doesn't release potential energy within the atoms? It's just uses the same energy that accelerated the particles? Madness!

Erm, I don't think it's producing some sort of fission reaction, it really is just smashing stuff really hard together to see what comes out. I'm pretty all that equipment is there just to get the velocities of the particles involved high enough to gib atoms into sub atomic particles. Like taking a hammer to a watch to find out what cogs are in there...

To break atomic particles into subatomic particles don't you have to release the energy in their Ionic bonds? Man, I wish I paid more attention in High School Chemistry.

I dunno about that. I think its the case that any energy that may be released would be less than the energy put in. Then again, I could be wrong - I think at this point it's just two uninformed people throwing out ideas - we could make a news team! XD

 

[The Austin]

Is this more evidence against religion?

Nope!

OP: Cool. But those guys need to work on VR already.

 

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So... just a bang then?

Nice uncredited quote.
Yes. I know. Sickipedia.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

So... What your telling me is... This was, in fact, the greatest idea ever?


OT: Meh, I honestly don't care about it. Until we actually create a "Medium Sized Big Bang" or "Life", this is unimportant.