Re: CERN Atom Smasher May End the World

Tim Little wrote:
> On 2008-04-14, Michael Ash <mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In the five billion year history of our planet there have never been
>> two cosmic rays pointing toward each other which collided with
>> roughly similar energies??
> 
> The chance of two high-energy cosmic rays colliding near Earth is
> already ridiculously low.  The chance that both have energies
> comparable to the proposed collider is a microscopic fraction of that.
> The chance that they have momenta oppositely directed to within even a
> millionth of a percent in one chosen axis is a lottery-winning
> fraction of that.
Winning the lottery would be easy-peasy by 
comparison.

D.
>  Doing the same in the other two axes as well is
> even more ridiculously unlikely.
> 
> Yes, I can say with extreme confidence that it has never happened and
> never will.  For any planet, anywhere in the universe.
> 
> 
> - Tim