article_snippet: According to Lamont, while the machine is tremendously powerful, the machine operates within a vacuum, making the machine relatively quiet.
article_snippet: The beam itself does hum, we can hear it oscillating, but the collision energy between one proton and another -- while it's a huge amount of energy for a proton -- is like a house fly hitting another house fly at 5 miles per hour.
article_snippet: The beam itself, however, does have a huge amount of energy and we have to be very careful with The beam itself."
article_snippet: Lamont said The beam itself is launched at a tangent to the ring and when the energy of The beam itself needs to be absorbed, The beam itself use a graphite block to damp The beam itself.