http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/ Engadget Comments for LHC breaks its own energy record, still less powerful than Lady Gaga http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.interscope.com/artist/news/default.aspx?nid=24937&aid=599&cmnt=1]]>Mar 19th 2010 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Yeah, what he said. ]]>Mar 19th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/
Yup, here's a C&P directly from CERN's glossary, the last line gives you an idea of the energy the protons have.
"Electronvolt (eV)

A unit of energy or mass used in particle physics. One eV is extremely small, and units of a million electronvolts, MeV, or thousand million electronvolts, GeV, are more common. The latest generation of particle accelerators reaches up to several million million electronvolts, TeV. One TeV is about the energy of motion of a flying mosquito." ]]>Mar 19th 2010 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/
The Tera prefix actually does mean trillion, not trillionth. The article was correct in saying 3.5 trillion electronvolts. Also, one electronvolt is equal to 1.6x10^-19 Joules, not 1.8.]]>Mar 19th 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Schooled]]>Mar 19th 2010 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Tritto, it's tera-electron-volts, 3.5 of which is about equivalent to force of the beating of a mosquito's wing.

Protons are really small, though, so that means a lot to them. Us crushing a blade of grass is no big deal, but to an ant underneath that blade of grass that is catastrophic force.]]>Mar 19th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/thats what SHE said]]>Mar 19th 2010 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/
hardcore fail man, what the article said was correct]]>Mar 19th 2010 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/
BTW the collider itself uses a lot more than a few TeV.
The collision of the particles produced 3.5 TeV.

Google: 1 teraelectron volt(TeV) = 1.60217646 × 10-7 joules

notice the minus. thats 9 zeros]]>Mar 19th 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/
Sorryy i was wrong. The particle beams moved at 3.5 TeV.]]>Mar 19th 2010 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/
Yep, volt is a unit of power, however eV is a unit of energy and a very small amount of energy.]]>Mar 19th 2010 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/
Yep, volt is a unit of power, however eV is a unit of energy and a very small amount of energy.]]>Mar 19th 2010 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1165534/files/CERN-Brochure-2009-003-Eng.pdf ], they have 10^11 protons per bunch, each of them with that energy and then they have 2808 of these bunches.

Converted into joule, this gives an energy of ~157444560 J or 157 megajoule, which is the energy of an average car travelling roughly at 560 km/h.

That's not too shabby.

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"but that sure is a lot of volts!" They are not volts!!!!!! They do not measure voltage!!!!]]>Mar 19th 2010 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/
It may not be a large force but it is if its just a few protons moving with the same energy as billions.]]>Mar 20th 2010 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/volt is not a unit of power, volt is a unit of voltage.
Power is measured in Watts
Energy in Joules
Watt=Joule/second
Power is energy over time.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/actually if you want to get technical volt is a measure of energy potential and can be easily converted to any form of energy for thanks the the modern miracle of Laplace Transforms. so before you correct someone, be correct.

and for the record, while 7 TeV is about the same level of energy as 7 mosquitoes, if you divide by initial mass to get a non specific value, you wind up with a mosquito that could destroy cities. so perspective is important in this, relativistic collisions are cool.]]>Mar 30th 2010 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/
LHC < Lady Ga Ga < Sean Connery < Chuck Norris.

End of discussion.
Anything you say in response will be translated by Chuck Norris as asking for a roundhouse kick to the head.]]>Mar 19th 2010 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/B================>]]>Mar 19th 2010 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 22nd 2010 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Yup indeed, with a small circle of 27 kilometers of circumference in the trunk]]>Mar 19th 2010 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Looks like the hummer will finally be outsized]]>Mar 19th 2010 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/ Everything]]>Mar 19th 2010 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/
Everything > Lady Gaga

Hell, even iPad > Lady Gaga]]>Mar 19th 2010 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/"Everything > Lady Gaga"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIeCrj_Gn6A

ORLY?]]>Mar 19th 2010 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/I followed one of the links at the end of that video. I caught myself watching a tutorial on how to do a Lady Gaga makeup, but I finished it anyway... thx alot...]]>Mar 20th 2010 2:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/"Hell, even iPad > Lady Gaga"

I'll accept that as true IFF Apple donates the proceeds from its first production run to HIV/AIDS research and education.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/lady gagger]]>Mar 19th 2010 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mick Jagger?]]>Mar 19th 2010 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/
PLUS, finally a post with a lot of comments that isn't hijacked by Team Edward vs Team Jacob! (read: fanboys and haters.)]]>Mar 19th 2010 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/lhc-breaks-its-own-energy-record-still-less-powerful-than-lady/Mar 19th 2010 11:46PM