[Morepower (Craig)]

Originally Posted by renormalised

However, after Spock arrives at the LHC and says..."Fascinating, however, if you apply Dr Cochrane's....." and after 2 hours of dissertation on warp physics finishes with..."and then do this to the magnetic flux capacitors." ...both particles fly off at warp 9.5 to whatever part of the universe the LHC is pointing towards at the time, never to be seen again

LOL, try smashing some Dilithium Crystals together at 0.9999C. But maybe stand well back.

Thanks for the detailed explanation guys, I pretty much get it (and thought it was too easy) but it WASN'T what I wanted to hear. I hate the whole "speed of light" speed limit deal. I know the "Space-Time" thing allows for it but I see that as cheating.

I can't wait 'till they crank the LHC up to full power and start letting the particles fly. I am particularily interested in what they may learn about Gravity.

I have another possibly stupid question if you guys don't mind. And that is if you could actually be in one of the detectors when a collision occured, assuming it was completely dark, is there enough energy released that would allow you to see anything ? Like maybe a very tiny sparkle or something similar. I don't mean from high speed particles hitting the optic nerve/retina, or whatever happens to the astronauts when they see flashes, I mean light.