Why particle accelerators disprove Bjarne's impossible "kinetic resistance"
And this is the reason for the recent posts displaying more of Bjarne's ignorance.
(Hey Bjarne - superconducting magnets need electricity to produce magnetic fields. Wow what a surprise!)
There are energy losses in the operation of particle accelerators, especially circular ones like the LHC. The known laws of physics tell us what these energy losses are. The accelerator is designed to work with these known energy losses. They are compensated for in the RF system.
Scientists know the exact energy losses. The energy that the RF system has to put into a stored beam
is the exact energy loss due to the motion of the particles in the beam.
Then you run the accelerator and it works.
Accelerators do not have double* their budgeted electricity cost
To accelerate the particles you use electricity.
Bjarne's impossible "kinetic resistance" means that more electricity is used that is designed or budgeted for. Somebody has to pay the bill. Accountants tend to scream loudly when a budgeted item doubles
*.
* Bjarne is deluded enough to think that you can assign the Lorentz factor (a number without units of measurement) any units that he likes, e.g. those of acceleration. This is an arbitary multiplication of his "kinetic resistance" equation by 1 m/s^2, KR = (y-1) * a where a = 1 m/s^2.
But we can select any value for a that we like. Including values that make accelerators consume a million times their budgeted electrictity cost.
Accelerated particles do not hit the walls of the accelerator
This is one of the very good points that Cuddles makes
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5345407&postcount=473.
- RF systems (e.g. RF cavity resonators) are used to accelerate particles and to keep them in the ring.
If there was an extra
impossible "kinetic resistance" then the acceleratparticles would always hit the walls of the accelerator because the RF systems do not know about
Bjarne's impossible "kinetic resistance".
Stored particles do not hit the walls of the accelerator
The next point is that the beams are circulated without acceleration for hours at a time. This is the accelerator acting as a
storage ring. Making the beam travel in a circle is fairly basic physics. All you need are magnets and Maxwell's equations. The magnets are tuned to keep particles at a specific energy traveling in a circle.
If the particles are not at that energy they escape the
storage ring. They hit the walls. In the case of high energy beams as in the LHC they then proceed to destroy the system.
Accelerated particles have the energy that is predicted
Yet another (less compelling) reason is that scientists are really interested in the collisions and their products. They are so interested that they measure the energy of all of the products in
calorimeters.
There is a little law of physics that you should know about: energy is conserved.
Thus the energy of the products is equal to the energy of the particles that collided.
No one has claimed a Nobel Prize by noticing that energy is not conserved in the collisions, i.e. the products have half the predicted energy of the particle beams.