Flash Forward Fysics

[tartysuz]

dewline asked if the physics on the show Flash Forward hold up. In the last ep, they revealed that the "MLap" accelerated generated energies in the area of a quadrillion electron volts.

So given that the LHC is designed to produce collisions at 14 TeV (14 trillion electron volts, I believe), how huge of a generator would be required to generate a quadrillion ev (not sure how to express that in short form) collision?

My suspicion is that the technology, infrastructure and utilities required for that kind of energy would make it very difficult to recreate on a supersekret basis, as the bad guys on Flash Forward seem to want to do.

Oh, and I suspect that it would cause a blackout because of the energy drain, but not necessarily a massive blackout of human consciousness. Yet electronics, including security cameras and the electronic signs in the baseball stadium were still working.

And the little mood ring that disrupts the effect of the wave of energy: that's just got to be magic. Or augmented by tinfoil that he hid under his toque.