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And a compost pile can start to combust spontaneously: Haystacks, compost piles and unprocessed cotton may self-ignite because of heat produced by bacterial fermentation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_combustion . Maybe I'm dumb...but I cannot see what this has to do with particle collis...

I'm sorry but this is silly....You are looking for a reason to be worried when there isn't one. You say that a black hole that is moving is less dangerous than a stationary black hole. Does this mean that a moving black hole will not suck in matter until it has moved out of the atmosphere? C'mon.......

I don't feel that there is a lot of logic in some of this. If there are extreme energy collisions happening on the edge of the atmosphere all the time then there are only a limited number of ways of looking at them regarding black holes. Either no black holes are produced, in which case we are unlik...

Hi Chuli

Welcome...Im new too and have almost zero physics.....the people on this forum are great at explaining stuff without BS. Have fun

Welcome....I'm new too and know very little physics..........I'm really pleased to see another person with physics knowledge to help us with questions

hi Bob welcome.....I'm new here too and I also know very little physics....I know they are getting up to a million collisions a second at times...so I suppose it will take a little while to analyze them

Hi there, even with the blind leading the blind....we must stumble over the truth sometimes...actually some of these guys are pretty clued up

thanks charmquark its good to be here

Found this link which seems to have a really good definition of HLT...sorry if its old news...
http://lhcb-trig.web.cern.ch/lhcb-trig/ ... iption.htm

Thanks Harbles........I can change everything BUT my user name....its not important anyway. A rose by another name......Perhaps it'll teach me to check b4 I push enter.

My inability to type is forever immortalised by the fact that my user name in this forum is mtgumby which is not what I had intended...aah well....

Hi Harbles..that link seems to want a "nice" password