LHC at 14Tev? (layman)?

Question

H'okay... so... I did the math and have NO background in even basic physics. I read that an electron volt is the energy of a flying female mosquito... so... 14,000,000,000 mosquto power? Physics hurts my head. The math seems to show this as a tiny fraction of a Joule. How much energy or power is 14TeV?

Answer 1

It's 14e12 eV, and it's equal to 0.00000224304822 joules.

By comparison, in 1991, a cosmic ray detector called the Fly's Eye II at The University of Utah detected a cosmic ray with the calculated energy of 3.2e20 eV. This is the energy of a baseball thrown at about 60 kph.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/OhMyGo...

It's not the energy of the individual proton collisions that have people spooked, it's other factors that I am not qualified to address (and I think of myself as being fairly well informed).

I say, "BRING IT ON," find that Higgs, poke a hole in the fabric of spacetime and invite E.T. from the 11th dimension to lunch.