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human
The eq of electrostatic force is F=kQ1Q2/r2, so in LHC should it be impossible to collide 2 protons together in Synchrotron as r=0 and F=Infinity?
gpt
A proton has a radius of about a femtometer, so the energy between two protons at that distance is about 1.5 million electron-volts. If you fire them at each other with that kinetic energy (about 5% light speed), they will repel or strongly scatter off each other. However at the LHC they have over 1.5 **trillion** electron-volts of kinetic energy, over a million times as much.