I find Wolfram Alpha helpful for this sort of thing. It said
13 TeV ≈ 13 × approximate kinetic energy of a flying mosquito ( ≈ 1.6×10^-7 J )
So absolutely tiny on everyday human scales. Credit to astronomy that they can even detect it over something as large as the earth’s atmosphere.
Oops, I’d assumed that was the total energy delivered to the atmosphere, but it’s the energy per photon, and they detected at least 140 of them (so there were probably a lot more unobserved). Who would have thunk to read the article before commenting?
I find Wolfram Alpha helpful for this sort of thing. It said
So absolutely tiny on everyday human scales. Credit to astronomy that they can even detect it over something as large as the earth’s atmosphere.
Oops, I’d assumed that was the total energy delivered to the atmosphere, but it’s the energy per photon, and they detected at least 140 of them (so there were probably a lot more unobserved). Who would have thunk to read the article before commenting?