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Atom-smashing lab says experiment to start end-June [scofs at fear of black hole destroying Earth]
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| 5/27/08
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Posted on 05/27/2008 12:53:48 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant
My pet rock comes thru again! Shazam
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posted on
05/27/2008 1:31:57 PM PDT
by
Waco
To: Brilliant
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posted on
05/27/2008 1:34:13 PM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: stuartcr
What happens if the Hawking radiation theory is incorrect, and it doesnt evaporate?
We're in big trouble, but not because of the micro black hole.
This is rooted in the basics of quantum mechanics, and if that 'quits working' then the sun will go out and a host of other bad things will happen. The problem in detecting Hawking radiation is not that the theory is shaky, but that the conditions to detect it are hard to come by. You need a black hole, for starters, and close enough that you can detect the Hawking radiation - which ends up looking like photons, and so gets lost in lots and lots of other photons between us and the nearest black holes we can detect (by observing effects on other bodies, of course).
I think the problem is just the opposite - at the highest energy states they can reach with the LHC, any black hole will evaporate so fast we won't even know it was there.
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05/27/2008 1:44:21 PM PDT
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Phlyer
To: C19fan
Another point that CERN itself has made is that the earth has already been bombarded by ultra-high energy cosmic rays for billions of years, with no apparent bad effects. These cosmic rays are essentially the same thing as what CERN produces, but with much higher energy. So why don’t we just study those? Their collisions happen at the edge of space, and occur randomly, uncontrolled.
To: Brilliant
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posted on
05/27/2008 2:18:43 PM PDT
by
lesser_satan
(Cthulu '08! Why vote for the lesser evil?)
To: Brilliant
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Not that I think spending all that money on an atom smasher is such a good idea anyway...
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This thing will have more uses than just "atom smashing". Just a guess, but whatever those uses are I am sure they are highly classified. Think unified theory and quantum mechanics applications.
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05/27/2008 2:38:57 PM PDT
by
LuxMaker
(The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, Thomas J 1819)
To: Brilliant
To: BenLurkin; neverdem; NormsRevenge
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posted on
06/01/2008 5:08:07 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/01/2008 6:04:31 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
To: AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; Las Vegas Dave; ...
[old joke punchline] "Nothing can go wrong, can go wrong, can go wrong..."
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06/01/2008 9:33:08 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Brilliant
June is turning out to be a very "interesting" month. In the sense of the old curse, "May you live in interesting times".
The Supreme Court will be handing down it's decision in "Heller" indicating whether the Second Amendment protects an individual right, and if it does, do DC's guns laws violate that right?
The Democrats will probably finally decide whether Socialist (Heavy) Clinton or Marxist Obama will be their nominee to go up against Socialist (light) McCain.
The Congress may refuse to further fund the War on Terror by not passing a supplemental appropriation causing massive layoffs of civilian support personnel and support contractors, as well as cancellation or shelving of several development programs. (The military is already asking permission to transfer money from other accounts so they can pay the troops, but that will only work through mid July)
And now, to end the madness perhaps, a Black Hole may devour the Earth. (Although I highly doubt it. The Fates are not that munificent).
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posted on
06/01/2008 10:27:03 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: Brilliant
"The system is totally safe. There is nothing to fear," he said. After considering all the things Europeans have been wrong about...socialism, multiculturalism, man made global warming...I'm starting to worry!
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06/01/2008 10:32:18 PM PDT
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Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: DungeonMaster
An atom smasher is to a black hole as a match is to the sun. Unlike an active star, there doesn't appear to be any limit to how small a black hole may be. Well there sort of is, but it is due to quantum mechanical effects, and would be quite small indeed. In fact that's part of the argument for this thing not being dangerous. The smaller a black hole is, the faster it "evaporates", due to higher tidal forces near it's event horizon, according to Hawking at least. Since the LHC could only create very small black holes, they would be expected to evaporate faster than they could eat. I hope he is right, and expect that he is.
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06/01/2008 10:36:13 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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