Science | Large Hadron Collider Weird Facts About the Hadron Collider It's both unimaginably hot and unimaginably cold By John Johnson Posted Apr 3, 2010 5:07 AM CDT Copied A file photo of the Large Hadron Collider. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini, File) Now that the Large Hadron Collider is up and running again, Ross Bonander of AskMen unearths 5 scientific tidbits: It's really, really cold: The system's magnets are cooled to -456°F, a bit chillier than deep outer space. It's really, really hot: After those magnets do their stuff, the resulting collisions of proton beams create temperatures about 100,000 times hotter than the core of the sun. For all of a trillionth of a second. Stephen Hawking theory: If the collider were to produce a mini black hole (it's unlikely) and die as a result, it would confirm a 1974 theory put forth by Hawking and almost certainly earn him a Nobel Prize. Einstein rules: The collider relies on the E=mc2 equation, though it's inverted here to m=E/c2, which you probably already knew. For more, click here. Read These Next The Amazon-USPS partnership could soon be coming to a close. Gene Simmons says Congress has to fix the radio business model. Trump sees inspiration in Aussie retirement funds. Pamela Anderson would rather not be known as Pamela Anderson. Report an error