Interesting results Farael, I hope the new tests in the Large Hadorn Collider at CERN will help us find out the answer to this question
The collider tunnel contains two pipes enclosed within superconducting magnets cooled by liquid helium, each pipe containing a proton beam. The two beams travel in opposite directions around the ring. A 3D reproduction of a balrog is placed inside and the forces acting on its body are then measured. Additional magnets are used to direct the beams to four intersection points where interactions between them will take place.
The protons will each have an energy of 7 TeV, giving a total collision energy of 14 TeV. It will take around 90 microseconds for an individual proton to travel once around the collider. Rather than continuous beams, the protons will be "bunched" together into approximately 2,800 bunches, so that interactions between the two beams will take place at discrete intervals never shorter than 25 nanoseconds apart. When the collider is first commissioned, it will be operated with fewer bunches, to give a bunch crossing interval of 75 nanoseconds. The number of bunches will later be increased give the final bunch crossing interval of 25 nanoseconds.
The forces on the balrog 3D model are measured thus determining if a balrog would have had the possibility to fly considering its resistance to air and its mass.
Scientists are however still afraid to start experiments due to the large possibility of creating a miniature black hole in the experiment, however many think that finding out the answer to this greatest of questions in history is worth risking the extinction of the human race.
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