Large Hadron Collider

garygoh · Post by **garygoh** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:14 am

Do anyone know what will happen to a person if he or she is trap inside the LHC when it is been fire ?? Will he be vapourised like when a nuclear bomb goes off? [smilie=confused.gif]

Meng Lee · Post by **Meng Lee** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:28 am

I think the person bombarded by the LHC will feel nothing. Although the beam is at a super high temperature, but the density of that beam is very very low, essentially vacuum. In terms of sensations of heat, there is hardly any.

At the cellular level, things could be different. The DNA and cells may be smashed and ruptured. Mutations may occur.

So my guess is, the person hardly feels anything at all but that person will die of cancer soon.

garygoh · Post by **garygoh** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:20 pm

So the person will perhaps die withing a few week after exposure??

river · Post by **river** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:10 pm

sorry, side track abit... go google now, Today! the special logo is for LHC

kochu · Post by **kochu** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:40 pm

Phew !!!.

it is a 5 bn sterling pound success. ....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7604293.stm

Otherwise it would have ended up as a bomb shelter for 3 rd world war or to carry water from France to Switzerland.

Kochu/10-9-08

boothee · Post by **boothee** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:38 am

I saw it on news.

Scientists looks very happy there.

boothee

Tachyon · Post by **Tachyon** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:13 pm

Back to the original question, I think the person will die of asphyxiation due to lack of air, before cancer sets in!

Meng Lee · Post by **Meng Lee** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:30 pm

Haha yah, its vacuum in there!