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Old 10-22-2009, 04:27 PM   #10
HumanePain
 
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Originally Posted by Raptor View Post
Particle collisions of greater energy than the LHC happen in the atmosphere anyway and if that was explained in the paper I missed it.
But the problem is we don't know when or where so we cannot observe them.
The LHC gives us the when and where, so we can mount all sorts of very expensive, extreme cold and vacuum tolerant cameras and photo-detectors, and capture it when scientists are darn good and ready to watch it.
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