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What does CERN's luminosity record mean?
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April 27th, 2011
CERN announced that they set the record for the highest luminosity ever in their particle beam. It’s 4.67×10^32 / Cm^2 per this article
It sounds very impressive to have all those zeroes, but I don’t quite understand. It seems like there is a unit missing – “Gleekos per Cm^2,” or something. If so, what is it? How does this compare to, say, daylight, or a 60 watt bulb at a meter?
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