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LHC Creates Mini Big Bangs and Incredible Heat

Posted November 08, 2010 10:33 AM

From New Scientist - Online News:

The world's largest particle smasher - the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, near Geneva in Switzerland - has seen the highest temperatures ever produced by a science experiment, thanks to a flurry of "mini big bangs". On 7 November, the LHC started smashing lead ions head-on, instead of the usual proton-proton collisions. This produced what are referred to as mini big bangs: dense fireballs that have temperatures of about 10 trillion °C.

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11/09/2010 8:11 AM

Mmmm, how do you measure 10trillion degrees C .
Even the KrisDelTM veryhotometer (VHM) doesn't go that high
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11/09/2010 9:04 AM

Shouldn't it be °K, anyway?

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11/09/2010 9:31 AM

Wot... degrees Kris??

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11/09/2010 11:32 PM

°K is incorrect, it is just K. Anyway, there is not that much difference, is there?

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11/09/2010 9:25 AM

Re: "Mmmm, how do you measure 10trillion degrees C"

Silly cat ~

You use the x0.1 scale on your jillionometer...

Everyone knows that!
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11/09/2010 1:29 PM

Shouldn't it be called micro big bangs?

Mini big bangs would surely have destroyed us all!
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11/09/2010 5:17 PM

I'd pro'ly be OK with a pico-bang (as long as I had a bit of warning).

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