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by magicalhippo 2228 days ago
LHC smashes protons together, and for comparison the rest mass (energy) of a proton[1] is just shy of 1GeV.

So that's still 4 orders of magnitude below the collision energy of the LHC.

[1]: http://pdglive.lbl.gov/DataBlock.action?node=S016M&home=BXXX...