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As i understand it, as particles particles accelerate toward the speed of light, they gain mass proportional to their velocity. Knowing this, the masses of the particles in the LHC must be more massive than your average, everyday protons, right? so how much more massive are they?

by /u/poptart2nd in /r/askscience

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