- SpeedyCow
- Oct 8, 2001
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Great thread! I've spent the last few months reading Wikipedia and other stuff on the LHC and your post explains what it actually does better than what I've read.
StarkingBarfish posted:
The beam itself could spectacularly gently caress your poo poo up if you got in the way of it. It has happened before on russian accelerator I beleive, using a far less powerful beam. Surprisingly the guy survived it. With the LHC the only thing that'd survive would be a lingering aroma of evaporated geek.
So would you say it should be classified as a Federation Phaser or a Romulan Disruptor?
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- SpeedyCow
- Oct 8, 2001
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I luv the itty bitty Phillies!
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StarkingBarfish posted:
Stopping the beam is pretty cool- There are 'beam dumps', one for each beam, sitting on a junction off the ring. These are massive blocks of carbon surrounded in concrete and cooled with water. In case of an emergency, battery powered 'kicker' magnets kick the beam out of the ring and along to the beam dumps. The energy released as the beam slams into the carbon is enough to raise it to several hundred degrees, and the beam must be moved in an 'e' shape around the block to stop it from burning one place only.
That is great! How do you move a beam so powerful in an "E" shape though? Do you move the tube it's traveling through, or do the magnets control it?
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