Thursday, September 11, 2008

LHC why can't we just observe collisions in space?

Physicists - please answer my question:

too much noise? - we need 300 feet of rock? could it be done on an asteroid or the moon with a little tube collecting cosmic particles and sending them into a drilled chamber- could we have spent 8 billion developing a satellite and detector that couldl filter out the noise and detect lots of particles?

Because the safety argument that it happens anyway in upper atmosphere assumes it happens at the same concentration - if we are concentrating collisions to any degree beyond that the safety argument, that it happens every day in upper atmosphere falls short.