http://www.huffingtonpost.com/don-lincoln/lhc-passes-important-mile_b_8160318.htm

LHC Passes Important Milestone. For the first time since resuming operations, the accelerator passed an important threshold, with each of the two beams of protons carrying 100 million joules of energy each. This achievement, while noteworthy, is but a way station on the way to the design of 2,808 bunches and an energy of 362 million joules each. When both beams are combined, their energy will be enough to melt an entire ton of copper.

Also, timing between bunches has now been reduced to 25 nanoseconds.

Jolly good, just don’t blow up the universe.

What will they do with the copper?

dv said:

What will they do with the copper?

Turn it into police men? or pennies?

dv said:

What will they do with the copper?

It will go into new projects I guess

When both beams are combined, their energy will be enough to melt an entire ton of copper. … What will they do with the copper?

Measuring energy by relating it to the latent heat of copper is just another use of units to bring the unfamiliar back into the world of the familiar, like volume in Sydney Harbours.

In this case it’s also a warning, don’t aim the beam at the wall of the vacuum chamber. Don’t stand in its path.

mollwollfumble said:

When both beams are combined, their energy will be enough to melt an entire ton of copper.
…
What will they do with the copper?

Measuring energy by relating it to the latent heat of copper is just another use of units to bring the unfamiliar back into the world of the familiar, like volume in Sydney Harbours.

In this case it’s also a warning, don’t aim the beam at the wall of the vacuum chamber. Don’t stand in its path.

Yes, I was making a joke. Ha ha.

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

When both beams are combined, their energy will be enough to melt an entire ton of copper.
…
What will they do with the copper?

Measuring energy by relating it to the latent heat of copper is just another use of units to bring the unfamiliar back into the world of the familiar, like volume in Sydney Harbours.

In this case it’s also a warning, don’t aim the beam at the wall of the vacuum chamber. Don’t stand in its path.

Yes, I was making a joke. Ha ha.

OK, but what I want to know is how these entire tons relate to tons or tonnes.

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

When both beams are combined, their energy will be enough to melt an entire ton of copper.
…
What will they do with the copper?

Measuring energy by relating it to the latent heat of copper is just another use of units to bring the unfamiliar back into the world of the familiar, like volume in Sydney Harbours.

In this case it’s also a warning, don’t aim the beam at the wall of the vacuum chamber. Don’t stand in its path.

Yes, I was making a joke. Ha ha.

ditto ;)