Expensive Energy

As stated yesterday the LHC collisions are at 7 x 10^12 EV of energy at the moment, which sounds a lot until you realise a cup of coffee has 10^23 EV of energy, 10,000,000,000 times more energy than the LHC. The reason for the discrepancy is protons don’t have much mass so consequently not a lot of energy; particle accelerators however are a bit more complicated than Brownian motion producers. I.e. cups of coffee.