Considering what happened the last time, I don’t know if I want to see what happens to the beamdumps, if they up the amps as well.

(Who am I kidding? Of course, I wanna see that!)

i do, energy is the substance releated by weapons, the quark cannon will be soon the most powerful weapon in the hsitory of mankind and shoot the Earth with quark condensates, black holes, ice-9, will make quark stars, dark atoms (tau-bc), oh la la, we shall cheer all together now ‘energy, energy, action, action, 4 legs, 4 legs’ in truly Orwellian fashion. ‘we shall die for cern, we shall die for cern’ Ave Caesar Morituri te salutant. Can this get more stupid? i doubt it.

I haven’t done the calculations, but an average person running into a wall (or into another person), might qualify as being the most powerful collider in the world.

“Now, let’s see if the mainstream media can start to distinguish “power” from “energy”! ”

Maybe they will when when physics can explain what “energy” is in ways the average person can understand. I think that’s not going to happen any time soon.

“with great power comes…”
http://xkcd.com/643/

I will second the proprietors statement on energy, and include the following reference by Mr Joule on the equivalence of heat and work:

http://trailblazing.royalsociety.org/

http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/140/61

Energy, work and heat are equivalent which is why they use the same units. For instance, all three can be expressed in BTU’s (British Thermal Units).

A Volt is a measure of energy per unit of charge. Charge is a property that an object can have. One electron charge times one volt equals one electronvolt. The electronvolt is a unit of energy.

Temperature is a measure energy per degree of freedom. Degrees of freedom are parameters of a system. For classical systems, a particle has a certain number of degrees of freedom associated with it (6 DOF for each 3D particle). So the energy (heat) of a particle is the temperature times the degrees of freedom. I can measure this in BTU’s, I could measure this in electronvolts, but I can also use Joules…which is also a unit of energy.

Energy density is the amount of energy per unit volume. According to Veltman, “If light is made up from photons then the energy density of light at some point at some moment is the probability of finding photons at that point at that moment times the energy of the photons.” Or in other words, the probability distribution of photons times the energy per photon is the energy density.

Energy density and pressure are also equivalent. Pressure is force per unit of area.

Power is also defined as current (charge passing a point per unit of time) times voltage (energy per charge) e.g. P = I x V. So in the case of the LHC, each charged particle is imparted with a certain amount of energy (naively understood as voltage)…so saying the LHC has reached a certain energy level is naively equivalent to saying it has reached a certain voltage. The number of particles circulating in the LHC can be naively understood as current. So right now, the current of the LHC is very low…this means that the power is very low (P = I x V). As more particles are injected into the collider, the current will increase, thus increasing the power of the collider.

Hope that helps.