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Old 03-03-2011, 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by michaellxv View Post
Wouldn't be the first time.

I can buy a light bulb for a few dollars to create photons. How many millions was the LHC to send a couple of protons at not quite C?
It is the M part of E=mc2 that makes it all so difficult to accelerate anything but photons to the speed of light. Photons are massless but protons have mass.
The LHC is a particle collider smashing particles with mass at near light speed. If we collide photons then if E=mc2. E=0mc2. E=0.


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