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Re: max energy (was: Quantum Leap)



At 10:39 AM 9/29/99 -0400, I wrote:

CERN can attain a couple of TeV, and has a 14 TeV machine under
construction.

Cosmic rays do better. According to
http://www.unicamp.br/~turtelli/www4.htm

* Each second, about 200 cosmic ray particles with energies of a few million
electron volts (10^6eV) strike every square meter of the earth.
* Above the energy of 10^18eV, only one particle each week falls on an area
of one square kilometer.
* Above the energy of 10^20eV, only one particle falls on a square kilometer
in a century.


That's a whole lot of TeVs.

I have no idea what I would do with a 1-joule proton, but it's interesting
to think about.

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John S. Denker jsd@monmouth.com