Wow 1mb of data per collision??? So each proton holds 1/2mb? This total overload of data is comparable to the overload of sensory data that the human brain receives every second. Your sensory input equals 11 billion bits of data per second. While your brain can only process 8-9 bits of data per second. That is why you may think you placed a cup down in one spot but pick it up from a different spot. Your brain just got overloaded and it processed a different set of sensory data the second time around.

What storage medium is the data from the LHC stored on? What computer system is used to read/write this type of data. What do you think the effects quantum computing will have on the LHC? It seems to me that you would have to write and store the data into DNA if you wanted any chance at recording the entire petabyte/second of data.

is the inside the collider a vacuum when the collisions are occuring? How do you split atoms and store protons before "loading" the collider. What does the "hopper" or "tank" holding all of the particles to be collided look like?

If you took a "mini" collider with an internal vacuum state and filled it with a super fluid at room temp to then take the entire sealed collider inside of a pressure tank. Like if you supercooled your superfluid, flew it into space, loaded the collider with the sf, then pressurized the vessel around it so that your energy input would be finite and complete instead of having to put infinite energy into it to keep it cold, you'd have a "hyperspace" or "light speed" engine?