I found this one site that said the following facts about the Hadron Collider.
Here are some quick facts:
- 20-year work-in-progress
- A team of 7,000 physicists from more than 80 nations
- 27 kilometers in circumference, 175 meters underground
- facilitating head-on collision of protons, traveling very near the speed-of-light
- each tunnel is big enough to run a train through it.
- temperatures generated: more than 1000,000 times hotter than the sun's core
- superconducting magnets are cooled to a temperature colder than in deep space
Bold: I find this particular fact hard to believe. If we were able to produce this much heat, let alone the amount of heat the Sun's core makes, we wouldn't have the energy crisis we're currently going through.
I'm not sure, but isn't there more energy coming from the Sun each second than the amount of energy humans have made/used...EVER.