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Re: The Americans are gonna destroy the Earth!!
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Thu, 11 Nov 1999 01:23:34 GMT
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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:41:12 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote:

I wonder:  if the collision of two elementary charged particles generates a
huge amount of energy within a tiny space, what would happen if someone just

Define "huge".

No accelerator is capable of generating even  10e-100 of the energy
used in the BB, as far as I can tell.

happened to be sitting in the collision chamber at the instant of collision?

- Would he or she instantiate a new and sentient parallel universe,
irrationally bent upon building an accelerator which could collide spamcake
particles?

- Would they go out in a shower of sparks and huge bouts of flame?

- Would the intense electrical and magnetic fields simply kill them first?

First, they would die of the deep vacuum in said collision chamber.
Then, they'd suddenly start feeling warm and fuzzy (given the energy
reached in modern accelerators, I don't think you'd actually be harmed
by that part), and then they'd suddenly get an intense craving to
procreate, thereby creating an army of clones, which take over the
world. All die. Oh, the embarassment.

Jasper



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