Nov 26th... we all die

[Troll]

Black hole on Earth

T'is the end of days & all very Biblical
1 in 50.000.00 chance of a catastrophe- creation of new type of matter -stranglets which would destroy the planet or the fabric of space ripped apart (but they did say the atom bomb would burn the atmosphere)

In the coming months the most complex scientific instrument ever built will be switched on. The Large Hadron Collider promises to recreate the conditions right after the Big Bang. By revisiting the beginning of time, scientists hope to unravel some of the deepest secrets of our Universe.

Within these first few moments the building blocks of the Universe were created. The search for these fundamental particles has occupied scientists for decades but there remains one particle that has stubbornly refused to appear in any experiment. The Higgs Boson is so crucial to our understanding of the Universe that it has been dubbed the God particle. It explains how fundamental particles acquire mass, or as one scientist plainly states: "It is what makes stuff stuff..."

[AtW]

That worries me - I think this and similar projects should be shutdown until time when they can be done in separate galaxies many hundreds light years away from major population centers.

[VectraMan]

I think that's when the extension I'm about to sign will end. Looks like I'm not going to get any time off then.

[hyperD]

It's times like this when we should reconsider getting Prescott back in service and flown over to Cern pronto to dampen the Higgs field.


(I fell asleep (wine induced) halfway though the BBC docu - anyone know whether it's on again?)

[OwlHoot]

Black hole on Earth

T'is the end of days & all very Biblical
1 in 50.000.00 chance of a catastrophe- creation of new type of matter -stranglets which would destroy the planet or the fabric of space ripped apart (but they did say the atom bomb would burn the atmosphere)

They reckon some cosmic rays can be many orders more energetic than the largest energies that will be obtained in the LHC, and we're still here. See A black hole ate my planet (a New Scientist article from 1999)

[SoupDragon]

Haha Horizon are such drama queens sometimes.

A quantum black hole only exists for a tiny fraction of a second.

[wendigo100]

Haha Horizon are such drama queens sometimes.

A quantum black hole only exists for a tiny fraction of a second.

Is that not long enough? Black holes don't need time to rev up and go through the gears you know!

[wendigo100]

A black hole ate my planet (a New Scientist article from 1999

Arthur C. Clarke once raised the possibility that some of those vast explosions we see in the cosmos may be smart-alec alien scientists getting their comeuppance for tinkering with the quantum vacuum: 'they might be industrial accidents' he said.

Di that happen to anyone you know, zeity?

[SoupDragon]

If it evaporates, it can't suck us up.

If it sucks stuff up it can't evaporate.

So I would assume it doesn't suck stuff up.

[threaded]

It could suck us up, and then evaporate.